Tangled

Chapter 107

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LUCAS

“What the fuck do you mean she’s unconscious?” My voice rises in the back of the cab, drawing Vester’s alarmed glance in the rearview mirror of the SUV.

Kellan’s voice crackles through my phone. “Her vitals are stable, but she’s not waking up. Doctors can’t find anything physically wrong.”

“Then why the hell is she in the hospital?” Fury pounds through my veins, my wolf snarling to hunt down whoever dared harm our mate. “What did Jericho do?”

“It wasn’t him. She collapsed at home after training.”

“Training?” The word comes out in a growl. “She’s still recovering! She shouldn’t be-”

“Boss.” Vester’s gruff voice cuts in. “Nessa’s with her

now. Should be able to tell us more soon.”

I rake a hand through my hair, jaw clenched. “I want guards on her room. No one gets in besides pack and medical staff.”

“Already done.”

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“Good.” I glance out the window at the darkened streets whizzing by, leg bouncing with impatience. Vester’s watching cautiously, and the husky’s panting in the back, still crated. “The dog. Get her to Lisa’s place.”

“Dog?” Kellan grunts. “Since when-“.

“Don’t worry about it.” I end the call, pulse hammering in my throat.

Ava. My Ava. Lying in a hospital bed. Again.

No. I won’t let anything else happen to her. Whatever this is, whoever is responsible, I’ll destroy them. Rip them to shreds with my bare hands if I have to.

The SUV screeches to a halt outside the hospital, but I’m already flinging open the door, barely registering

Vester’s shout to wait. Selene whines from her crate,

right now. All that matters is getting to Ava.

I make a beeline for the front desk. The receptionist looks up, startled, but

demanding Ava’s room number.

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on the counter. “Alpha of the Westwood Pack. Ava Grey is under my protection. Now tell me

blanches, fingers flying over her keyboard. “R–room 305, Alpha. Third

on my heel and head for the elevators. The

worst–case scenarios.

on? What if someone got past the guards? What

I’m moving, long strides eating up the distance to Ava’s room. Two of my

bark, not

one of them

with her.”

push open the door, my heart in my throat. And there she is. Ava. Lying still and pale against the white sheets, an IV dripping

hodaido ovnraccion

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other side of

Must be Lisa.

greets softly. “I wish I had

news.”

three strides, my hand finding hers, careful of the wires and

have to swallow past the

throat.

Nessa?” I ask hoarsely. “Why won’t she

Exhausted and a bit dehydrated, but nothing

unconsciousness.”

“Then what-”

wolf,” Vanessa cuts in gently. “Or rather,

the lack thereof.”

“What do

despite being of age. And now, with everything

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at an exceptional rate recently, and there was the

wolves.”

Ava’s still face, my mind reeling. Her wolf. Trying to break

spreads her hands helplessly. “I don’t know, Lucas. This is beyond anything I’ve seen

Uncharted or not, I refuse to lose Ava. Not like

I order. “I want updates every hour. And double the guard on her room. No one gets in

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