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.

was in a coma

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her ears

hard can it

me. Do you even

access your power?

to think of

know what it

Also no.

you know its limitations?

that, too.

the couch, I stare at the ceiling. “This is pointless.

Lisa finally asks, nearly bursting with

curiosity.

she squints her eyes at me with a doubtful stare. “What about Sister Miriam?”

Who is Sister Miriam? Is she

in shock. “Why would you think she’s a

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part of a church. Brother, Sister, Father,

That’s just bizarre.

eyebrow, I think back to Sister Miriam. Of the way my mother reacted to her presence. Of her bizarre behavior and

vampire.” She’s definitely something, anyway.

possible she may know something. But it is also possible she

in me when we met.”

like interesting things. They eat boring things.

a thought I never wanted to have in

Lisa questions after I fill her in again. “How would

you?”

knowledge in their community. Despite popular opinion, they are not evil or terrifying. Just

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off. “You just said she might try to kill

Yes.

In

doesn’t sound like finicky is a

describe them.”

tilts her head again. No, it is

Okay, then.

know something–but how the hell

these

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silence, our one idea already dashed. Lisa stares out the window. Selene rests her head in my

it through, I can only think of one solution.

try to figure it out on my own. I

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huffs, her mental grumbling vibrating in my ears. Lisa looks doubtful, but all she

to think of how

to mind.

was running faster. It came to me; I

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