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.”

needs. She needs her mate. She needs us.

overwhelming. But I can’t. I won’t be that kind of alpha. That kind of man. I won’t be enslaved to the urges of the fate bond inside

of me.

out

strip off my clothes and shift, letting my wolf take over. He surges forward, all coiled power and barely

summer filling my lungs. Out here,

her.

riva har

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Earn back her trust, her affection. Prove that

unsatisfied, but I push on. One step at a

turmoil fades, replaced by the simple joy of the run. My wolf revels in the

we need, he rumbles, content for the first time

I

Out here, the complications of pack politics and the tangled web of my love life seem far away. There’s only the wind in my fur

run for miles, losing ourselves in the primal

own shadows. The worries melt away, leaving only the purity

a scent on the

dog, my wolf snorts, his nose twitching as he

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odor. Probably some human’s

at my memory. I can’t quite place it,

trail deeper into the woods. The scent grows

frame. It looks up at us with wary blue eyes, hackles raising slightly at the

not just a wolf. And this is no ordinary

Selene.

half–remembered fragment from days of watching Ava

in Cedarwood.

here, alone and bedraggled? And why do I get the feeling that there’s more to this

husky, my wolf watching

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