Tangled

91 Ava Clearing the Air (0)

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.”

seems to want some sort of input from me, I

chaos, your family and Alpha Renard escaped,

I nod again.

he says, as if I’m not understanding.

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

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

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feel a lot of things right now. Like sadness, anxiety, worry, or

a huge demon of vengeance in my soul that is

I don’t want to show my possible future mate that I’m a raging psychopath. He’s treating me so carefully as he tells me all

his rough fingers between mine. He must think I need comfort, and I’m not sure how to

ours, or letting them go as rogues. I’ll be back every few days. Right now, another alpha is helping me keep

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something.”

The “other alpha” must be Clayton; that’s

they’ll figure it out soon.

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

few minutes is all I need. I just need you to promise

“Whatever you have to tell me, don’t worry, Ava. I won’t

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

slack against mine, and his

rogues in Cedarwood

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into heat without a wolf?”

and I freeze.

you know

Gala, I’d been under the impression you

he looked at

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

his thumb rubs over the back of my hand, over

contrition.

with me that night. You would have been safe. I was so focused on how I felt about your alpha that I didn’t stop to think that I should have trusted in my