Tangled

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91 Ava: Clearing the Air (I)

All my thoughts circle into some sort of insane melodrama right out of Selene’s favorite TV show, and I slap my hands against my face, rubbing hard against my cheeks, as though I can push the tears right back into my eyes.

“Sorry,” I say, as Lucas rests a worried hand against my back, stroking me like you would pet a puppy. It’s cute.

He doesn’t seem to know what to do with me, while

I’m just grateful that he’s trying.

Once I’m sure my tears are gone, I smile up at him. “I’m just frazzled.”

“You’ve been through a lot. Did I upset you when I took -the phone call?”

“No!” The word bursts from me in horror. Does he

think I’m that kind of person, who gets upset when he has to do important things instead of watching me sit in a hospital bed? “Not at all.”

He blows out a breath in what I’m sure is massive relief. No one wants a mate that high maintenance. “Are you upset that I have to leave?”

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I cringe. “It isn’t that.” I just came to some insane levels of assumptions. “Why… do you have to go?”

“Ah.” Now he looks uncomfortable, and takes a seat on my bed, grabbing my hand.

Oh, God. This can’t be good.

“Once we were safe, Kellan–my beta–led a force of my men into the heart of the Blackwood pack.” I must not look devastated enough, because he clarifies, “In

an act of war.”

want some sort of input from me,

Alpha Renard escaped, but the territory is under

I nod again.

took over your pack,” he says, as if I’m

my head. “I don’t care what happens to

the hospital. She’s in critical condition due to the wolfsbane I

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now. Like sadness, anxiety, worry, or other emotions that would be applicable

there’s a huge demon of vengeance in my soul that is happy

future mate that I’m a raging psychopath. He’s treating me so carefully as he tells me all these things, and not a single one

rough fingers between mine. He must think I

integrating them into ours, or letting them go as rogues. I’ll be back every few days. Right now,

I assure him. “But before you go, I have to tell you S~ᴇaʀᴄh the (ꜰind)ɴʘvel.nᴇt

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something.”

be Clayton; that’s why he called. Maybe Clayton

yet, but they’ll figure it out soon. I have to head this

minutes. There’s a flight tonight that I have to

I need. I just need you to promise to listen without getting too

my words. “Whatever you have to tell

have time to worry about them. “When I was taken from

slack against mine, and his

deep breath. “There were some rogues in Cedarwood who caught my scent. I was

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go into heat

and I freeze.

do you know

“At the Gala, I’d been under the impression you were working with your family–with the

looked at me with such intense

us a long time. to get someone into the pack to get the information, but

his thumb rubs over the back of my hand, over and over,

contrition.

that night. You would have been safe. I