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.

it risky for me to just do nothing? I was

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her ears flicking. Even so…

hard can it

Do you even know

access your power?

think

you know what it

Also no.

know

to that, too.

couch, I stare at the ceiling. “This is pointless. What am I going to

asks, nearly

curiosity.

me with a

Who is Sister Miriam? Is she

at Selene in shock. “Why would

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they’re part of a church. Brother, Sister, Father,

That’s just bizarre.

way my mother reacted to her presence. Of her

might be a vampire.” She’s definitely

she may know something. But it is also

pretty interested in

like interesting things. They

never wanted

Lisa questions after I fill her in again. “How would a vampire know anything about a shifter

you?”

long–lived, and share their knowledge in their community. Despite popular opinion, they

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a little off. “You just said she might try to kill me, and

Yes.

In

finicky is

describe them.”

again. No, it is

Okay, then.

know something–but how the

“With these

Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of novels early and in the highest

into silence, our one idea already dashed. Lisa stares out the window. Selene rests her head in my lap as I rub

it through, I can only think of

permission, or I try to figure it out on my own. I don’t have any

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in my ears. Lisa looks

to think of how I’d accessed it the night of

to

was running. Then, I was running faster. It

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