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

Alpha Renard escaped, but the territory is under

I nod again.

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

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

She’s in critical condition due to the wolfsbane I

Clearing the Air

I’m probably supposed to feel a lot of things right now. Like sadness, anxiety,

in my

say, because 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 these things, and not a single

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

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

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 S~ᴇaʀᴄh the (ꜰind)ɴʘvel.nᴇt website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters

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something.”

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

but they’ll figure it out soon. I have

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

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

is admirably calm with my words. “Whatever you have to

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

has his fingers going slack against mine, and his brows come

were some rogues in Cedarwood who caught my scent. I was going into

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go into heat

and I freeze.

you know

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

looked at me with such intense hatred.

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

his face, and his thumb rubs over the back of my hand, over and over,

contrition.

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 I felt about your alpha that I didn’t stop to think that I should have trusted in