Tangled

Chapter 91

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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

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

I nod again.

your pack,” he says, as if I’m

“I don’t care what happens to them.” Too bad all the important people

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

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a lot of things right now. Like sadness, anxiety, worry, or other emotions that would be

demon of vengeance in my soul that is

possible 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 has me

rough fingers between mine. He must think I need comfort, and I’m

every wolf from the Blackwood Pack and integrating them into ours, or letting them go as rogues. I’ll be back every few days. Right now, another alpha is helping me keep things in control over there,

his brow. “You’ll do great,” I assure him. “But before you go, I have to tell

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something.”

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

out soon. I have to

minutes. There’s a

just need

admirably calm with my words. “Whatever you have to tell me, don’t worry, Ava. I won’t think

I don’t have time to worry about them. “When I

against mine, and his

were some rogues in Cedarwood who

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into heat without a wolf?” Lucas asks,

and I freeze.

you know about that?”

been under the impression you were working with your family–with the alpha

that’s why he looked at

took us a long time. to get someone into the pack to

face, and his thumb rubs over the

contrition.

ass, I would have brought you back 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

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