Tangled

Chapter 139

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END SEASON TWO

“You’re making this so much harder than it should be. I was hoping to savor this moment, but now I have to rush my meal, instead.” He sounds disappointed, not angry, and the difference makes me shudder.

It’s worse than him being infuriated. It shows that my struggles are no more than an inconvenience to him.

When his fangs break skin, the pain is unbearable.

It’s worse than fire in my veins. It’s an ache so deep that my entire body throbs and burns, I open my mouth to scream, but no sound comes out; I can’t

breathe.

Skimming over the pain is an ecstasy that taunts me with bliss, tantalizing with its lack of pain. I yearn for it, wanting to sink in, wanting to escape this torture-

Eyes, Ava! Selene shouts. Go for the eyes!

With a desperate cry, I jab my fingers toward his face, aiming for those cold, mocking eyes. He jerks his head back and I can feel my neck rip and tear, blood

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pouring.

But not before I fe

my nails sink into something soft

and yielding. He howis, his grip loosens, and I wrench myself free, staggering away.

The vampire clutches at his face, blood seeping between his fingers. One eye is a ruined mess, but the other glares at me with unadulterated hatred.

“You’ll pay for that, bitch,” he spits, his voice a guttural

rasp.

I hold my hands against my neck, against the blood pouring out, gasping for air to fill my lungs. It’s like they can’t inflate fully, can’t fill with oxygen.

This time rage fuels his movements as he lunges for me, messy and uncoordinated. My brain’s already off, moving on instinct, through repetitive motions in

training.

A quick sidestep. A knee to the groin, a practiced weak point. He’s wide open and doubles over with a grunt as I follow up with an elbow to the back of his neck,

sacrificing blood loss for success.

He hits the ground hard. Good to know pressure

points also work on vampires

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He won’t be down long–may

seconds.

I dart to Lisa, grabbing her under the arms and dragging her back, scrabbling for purchase.with my

slick from

and my vision blurs from darkness to light, spotted with

his feet, his face a mask of rage. Blood drips from his ruined

from the elegant monster

a

you apart,” he snarls, spittle flying from his lips.

body. I know I can’t outrun him, not while

it

a crackling current that dances along

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beneath my skin.

It’s electric.

It’s terrifying.

It’s hope.

trust the power within me, meeting

have been impossible to track is now something I can not

comes to me

How to block.

How to move.

things. How to press my hand against his arm, how to utilize his momentum to throw his

please.

to step as I

training in offensive strikes, but I’ve practiced defense to exhaustion every

every time he tries to

regain his balance

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this can’t go on forever.

the wooziness in

the way my knees

top is soaked in blood…

be unconscious

an encouraging presence in

that I notice the sounds outside of

little area.

howls in the

sound of sirens.

snarling and growling of wolves here, fighting. Perhaps they’re on the other side

occasional crash. A

with only Teddy and Bren’s corpses, Lisa’s unconscious form,

“Come with us, kitten. I’ve been searching for so long. Don’t you

My story?

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these stupid ke? Their rules?

old ways?”

beauty. Come with me,

agree with him. You’re half in contract. Any agreement will bind you. Selene’s words are urgent, and I have so many fucking questions, but I’m swaying on my feet,

body.

I don’t know how bad the damage to my

be small.

skin is smooth and unblemished

wonder I’m

throbbing, but the damage

outline of my coar remaine

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too. I’ll give you the freedom he can’t. I’ll give you the knowledge she won’t. Come, Ava Grey, Ward of the Witches. You seek a home, and I have one to

of me, the one desperate for

the faint tingle of the ecstasy I’d felt taunting me from

make sense of

steps closer, and I fall to my knees with a groan. I can’t hold on to the power, feeling it pour out of me. For a second, I can almost imagine golden strands connecting me to the earth,

blink.

still spotty.

with a soft croon. A lullaby, I

Ava!

not sure if he

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