Tangled

Chapter 102

102 Lucas: Jealousy

LUCAS

She’s going to talk to Clayton tonight.

She won’t let me call her, but she’ll talk to him.

Fuck. I’m going crazy.

My wolf gives me the silent treatment, a palpable wall of disapproval and resentment radiating from him. I

know he blames me for this mess.

“I’m trying,” I mutter, pacing the length of my office. “I’m doing everything I can to fix this.”

There would be nothing to fix if you hadn’t rejected our mate in the first place, he snaps, his voice dripping with accusation.

Rubbing my hands over my face, I struggle not to

groan in frustration. He’s right and I fucking hate it. If I hadn’t been so goddamn stupid, Ava would have been with me long ago, Safe. Marked. Mine.

But I can’t change the past. I can only try to salvage the future.

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Go to her, my wolf demands. Claim her before he does.

I shake my head. “She needs space. I have to respect

that.”

she needs. She

But I can’t. I won’t be that kind of alpha.

of me.

out

He surges forward, all coiled power and barely leashed aggression, and we race out into the

scents of summer filling my lungs. Out here,

fight for her. Show her that I’m the one she belongs

har

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I have to do it the right way. Earn back her trust, her affection.

impatient and unsatisfied, but I push on. One step at a time. One day at a

With each stride, the turmoil fades, replaced by the simple joy of the run.

rumbles, content for the first time in

I

the complications of pack politics and the tangled web of my love

for miles, losing

hunt, even if we’re chasing nothing but our own shadows. The

a scent on the

my wolf snorts, his nose

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some

something that tugs at my memory. I can’t quite place it, but it draws me

The scent grows

see it. A husky, its fur matted and dull, ribs showing through its skinny frame. It looks up at us with wary blue eyes, hackles raising

not just a wolf. And this is no ordinary

Selene.

half–remembered

in Cedarwood.

is Selene doing out here, alone and bedraggled? And why do I get the feeling that there’s more

cautiously, I approach the husky, my wolf watching intently from behind my

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