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.

in the recliner

drink water;

able to swallow that, either. The

nauseated.

my mind, meeting only silence. It’s something I should

14. 14.

36

Selena’s

years

it’s amazing how

life without Selene anymore, even when she isn’t in my

It’s wrong.

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

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

the world.

if I can go back to the

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

lunch, I’m nearly crawling out of my skin with agitation.

***

Ava.

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Selene’s

spoonful of orange jello in

Where have you been?!

…can’t…far…

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

any other shifter could have explained to me; all their wolves exist with them. I’ve never heard of a wolf that

back in my bed.

Selene is close.

have been running all night. I’m not sure how fast she can run, but it must have been hard on her.

after

her voice whispers, and I can

in my eyes.

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Selene’s Return

Aspen pack. Their alpha saved me last night. I quickly

Are you hurt?

head, forgetting she

Are you

They said

but I can still feel her. It’s

have her back.