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

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groans, her ears flicking. Even so…

can it

Do you even know

access your power?

to think

what it

Also no.

know

to that,

at the ceiling. “This is pointless. What

asks, nearly bursting

curiosity.

at me with a doubtful stare.

up. Who is Sister Miriam? Is she

shock. “Why would

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they’re part of

That’s just bizarre.

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

might be a vampire.” She’s definitely something, anyway.

she may know something. But it is

in

is good. Vampires like interesting things. They eat

never wanted to have in

Lisa questions after I fill her in again. “How

you?”

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

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

Yes.

In

doesn’t sound like finicky is a

describe them.”

again. No, it is

Okay, then.

know something–but how the hell

“With these overprotective

to

already dashed. Lisa stares out the window. Selene rests her head in my lap as

think it through, I can only think of

I try to figure

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Lisa looks doubtful, but

ear, I try to think of how

comes to mind.

running faster. It came to me; I never called it.

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