Tangled

Chapter 118

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The good thing about Lisa’s apartment is that it’s soundproof.

That means, with Kellan gone, we can talk to our

heart’s content.

Which is exactly what we do, as I fill Lisa in on what I experienced while I was unconscious. Lisa looks

confused.

“I know I’m a human, but that doesn’t sound like wolf is emerging. It sounds unrelated to wolves entirely.”

your

Precisely, Selene says, her tone approving. She likes

Lisa.

“Selene agrees,” I translate for Lisa.

It is an awakening, but not of your wolf. She snorts and gives a quick shake of her head. I’m already awake.

I laugh, and Lisa looks at me with a questioning stare.

So, of course, I tell her.

It’s unfortunate she can’t hear Selene.

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“She’s funny,” Lisa remarks, petting Selene’s ears. Despite knowing the dog in front of her is a wolf on the inside, she hasn’t stopped treating Selene as a lovable husky.

“So, an awakening of what, exactly?”

Your powers, she says, her words terse. The necklace will do no good for you now. The ring, too. You’ve grown too powerful. It’s time to train before you get yourself killed.

Oh.

That doesn’t sound good.

It does not, she confirms grimly. Unfortunately, I don’t know where we can go for tutelage.

“Okay, so I have to learn on my own then.”

That carries great risk.

The grimace that twists my face has Lisa’s eyes bouncing between me and Selene, but she sits

patiently, waiting for the summary.

risky for me to just do nothing? I was in a coma for three weeks. Isn’t that

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her ears flicking.

hard can it be?”

me. Do you even know

access your power?

to think

you know what

Also no.

you know its

that,

ceiling. “This is pointless.

Lisa finally asks, nearly

curiosity.

eyes at me with a doubtful

Who is Sister Miriam? Is she a

in shock. “Why

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if they’re part

That’s just bizarre.

to Sister Miriam. Of the way my mother reacted to her presence.

vampire.”

head. It is possible she may know something. But it is also possible she will try

in me when we met.”

Vampires like interesting things. They

never wanted to have in

after I fill her in again. “How would

you?”

are very long–lived, and share their knowledge in their community. Despite popular opinion, they are not evil or terrifying.

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said she might try to kill me, and that vampires eat boring things.”

Yes.

In

sound like finicky is a great way

describe them.”

again. No, it is

Okay, then.

know something–but how the hell

sighs. “With these overprotective wolves,

to access chapters

already dashed. Lisa stares out

think it through, I can only

try to figure it out on my own. I don’t have any other

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her mental grumbling vibrating in my ears. Lisa looks

think of how I’d accessed it

comes to

was running faster. It came to me;

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