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.”

input from me, I nod to

Alpha Renard escaped, but the territory

I nod again.

over your pack,” he says, as if

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

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

Clearing the

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

a huge demon of vengeance in my soul that is happy at his

psychopath. He’s treating me so carefully as he tells me all these things, and not a

reaches for my hand, sliding his rough fingers between mine. He must think I need comfort, and I’m not sure how

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

and I 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

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something.”

must be Clayton; that’s

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

a few minutes.

just need you to

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

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

his brows come together

breath. “There were some rogues in Cedarwood who caught

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heat without a

and I freeze.

know about

eyes meet mine, unwavering. “At the Gala, I’d been under the impression you were working with your family–with

that’s why he looked at me with such intense

pack to get the information, but I heard that you were wolfless and not treated well because of

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

contrition.

would have brought you back with me that night. You would have been safe.

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