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.”

to want some sort of input from me, I nod to show that I’m

chaos, your family and Alpha Renard escaped, but the territory is

I nod again.

pack,” he says, as

what happens to them.”

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

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sadness, anxiety,

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

treating me so carefully as he

sliding his rough fingers between mine. He must think I

them into ours, or letting them go as rogues. I’ll be

on his brow. “You’ll do great,” I assure him. “But before you go, I have to tell you S~ᴇaʀᴄh the (ꜰind)ɴʘvel.nᴇt website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of novels early and in the highest

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something.”

“other alpha” must be Clayton; that’s why he called.

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

only have a few minutes. There’s

few minutes is all I need. I just need you to promise to listen without getting too

but his face is admirably calm with my words. “Whatever you have to tell me,

seem odd, but I don’t have time to worry about them. “When I was taken from Cedarwood, it wasn’t by

against mine, and his brows come together in thought. “No?

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

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heat without a

and I freeze.

you know

unwavering. “At the Gala, I’d been under the impression you

that’s why he looked at me with such intense

Gala, I looked into you. It took us a long time. to get someone into the pack to get the information, but I heard that you were wolfless and not treated well because of it.”

and his thumb rubs over the back of

contrition.

with me that night. You would have been