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.

relax in the recliner they’ve provided; I can’t.

drink

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

nauseated.

out for Selene in my mind, meeting only silence. It’s something I

14. 14.

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Ava: Selena’s

years

amazing how you adapt to

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

It’s wrong.

to check all my

wake at

the

definitely to ask Alpha Clayton if I can

too busy to just be called down to the hospital because a strange woman wants to meet

lunch, I’m nearly crawling out of

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of

Where have you been?!

…can’t…far…

in my mind. I’m sure she’s saying so

something 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 dog’s

back in my bed. My breath escapes me in

Selene is close.

how fast she

ask after a

voice whispers, and

in my eyes.

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the Aspen pack. Their alpha saved me last night. I quickly give a summary of events, feeling her presence strengthen

Are you hurt?

head, forgetting she can’t see

Are you

the car crash. I have some questions, though. They said I’m going into

I can still feel her. It’s

have her back.