Tangled

33 Ava: Selene’s Return

Panic seizes me as I pat frantically at my neck, searching for the familiar weight of my necklace and finding only smooth skin.

Where is it? How could I have lost it?

Hurriedly, I retrace my steps, dripping water across the tile as I scour the bathroom. I get down on my hands and knees, peering under the sink and toilet, my heart pounding with rising dread. Nothing. It’s not here.

Wrapping myself in a towel, I venture back into the main room, my gaze darting frantically about as I search for any sign of the missing crystal. I rifle

through the sheets on the bed, tossing pillows aside as my desperation grows.

Not there.

I get the bright idea to check my pockets, but it isn’t

there either.

Shit.

Fuck.

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33 Ava: Solone’s Return

you.”

I clutch the towel tighter around myself. “Thank you. I just showered, so it’s perfect timing.”

It dawns on me that I hadn’t even checked for a

change of clothes before showering. My brain’s been defective since I got here; it’s no wonder I didn’t notice the necklace missing.

I end up in a soft cotton hospital gown that buttons up in the back, instead of gaping open. Nurse Jenna left a cup of water at my bedside and showed me how to use my call light in case I needed anyone.

Too bad none of them can help me materialize a missing necklace.

I try to relax in bed; I can’t. Sᴇaʀch Thᴇ Findɴovel.ɴet website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

to relax in the

try to drink water; I can’t.

wouldn’t be able to swallow that, either. The thought

nauseated.

Selene in my mind, meeting only

14. 14.

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Ava: Selena’s

years

how you adapt to

even when

It’s wrong.

starts. Every few hours, a nurse comes in to check all my vitals, and it takes a long time

your energy, and I wake at sunrise feeling

not the

Clayton if I can go back to the scene of the

well. Apparently, he’s too busy to just be called down

I’m nearly crawling out of

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Ava.

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Selene’s

drop my spoonful of orange jello in

have

…can’t…far…

she’s saying so much more than I can hear, but the important word is

their wolves exist with

blossoms, relaxing every inch of taut muscle as I lay back in my bed. My breath escapes me in a

Selene is close.

fast she can run, but it must have been hard on her.

I ask after a few minutes.

her voice whispers, and I

in my eyes.

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Selene’s Return

last night. I quickly give a summary of events, feeling her

Are you hurt?

head, forgetting she

Are you hurt?

crash. I have some questions, though. They said

I can still feel

have her back.