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.

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try to drink water; I can’t.

able to swallow that, either. The thought

nauseated.

out for Selene in my mind, meeting only silence. It’s something I should be used to, after

14. 14.

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years

how you adapt to change.

anymore, even when she

It’s wrong.

in fits and starts. Every few hours, a nurse comes in to check all my vitals,

sleep replenishes your energy, and I wake at sunrise feeling ever–so–slightly refreshed and ready to take on

the

ask Alpha Clayton if I can go back to the scene of the

he’s too busy to just be called down to the hospital because a strange woman

out of

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of orange jello in

Where have you

…can’t…far…

like her voice is ebbing and flowing in my mind. I’m sure she’s saying so much more than I can hear, but

any other shifter could have explained to me; all their wolves exist with them. I’ve never heard of a wolf that can manifest into their own body, even if it is a

muscle as I lay back in my bed. My breath escapes me in a

Selene is close.

sure how fast she can run, but

I ask after

her voice whispers, and

in my eyes.

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Selene’s

me last night. I quickly give a summary

Are you hurt?

forgetting

Are you hurt?

They said I’m going into heat. They want me here until my heat is

goes silent, but I can still feel her. It’s good

have her back.