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.”

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

the chaos, your family and Alpha Renard

I nod again.

took over your pack,” he says, as if I’m not understanding.

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

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

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feel a lot of things right now. Like sadness, anxiety, worry, or other emotions that would be applicable to a good daughter.

a huge 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

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

don’t resist the urge to reach out and rub the lines 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.”

alpha” must be Clayton; that’s

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

only have a few minutes. There’s a flight

is all I need. I just need you to promise

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

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

his brows come together in thought. “No? Then

deep breath. “There were some rogues in Cedarwood who caught

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you go into heat without a wolf?” Lucas

and I freeze.

you know about that?”

the impression you were working

that’s why he looked at

the pack

thumb rubs over the back of my

contrition.

sorry, Ava. If I had just kept my head out of my ass, I would have brought you back with me that night. You would have been safe. I was so focused on how