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 her mate.

her back to my bed, is almost overwhelming. But I can’t. I won’t

of me.

clear my head. Get out of

anyone, I strip off my clothes and shift, letting my wolf take over. He surges forward, all

scents of summer filling my lungs. Out here, with nothing but the wind and the trees,

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

can riva har avaruthing cho nooda.

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the right way. Earn back her

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

drowns out the chaos in my head. With each stride, the turmoil fades, replaced by

we need, he rumbles, content for the

I

of pack politics and the tangled web of my love life seem far away. There’s only

miles, losing ourselves in the

shadows. The worries melt away, leaving

then, a scent on the breeze.

my wolf snorts, his nose

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odor. Probably some human’s lost pet.

there’s something familiar about it, something that tugs at my memory. I can’t quite place it, but it

the trail deeper into the woods. The

see it. A husky, its fur matted and dull, ribs showing through its skinny frame. It looks up at us

And this is no

Selene.

half–remembered fragment from

in Cedarwood.

Selene doing out here, alone and bedraggled? And why do I get

husky, my wolf watching intently from behind my eyes. Selene stands

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