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

from blood.

in pain and my vision blurs from darkness to light,

his face a mask of rage. Blood drips from his ruined eye, painting a gruesome picture. He stalks

a far cry from the elegant monster from before. He’s

have a

he snarls, spittle flying from his lips. “Piece by fucking piece.”

Lisa with my body. I know I can’t outrun him, not while carrying her.

it

life inside of me, a crackling current that dances along my

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thrumming beneath my skin.

It’s electric.

It’s terrifying.

It’s hope.

and I trust the power within me, meeting him head

itself changes. A punch that before would have been impossible to track is now something

training comes to me without thought.

How to block.

How to move.

press my hand against his arm, how

please.

as

had little training in offensive strikes, but I’ve practiced defense to exhaustion every day.

tries to

regain

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this can’t go on

can feel the wooziness

way my knees

crop top is soaked in blood…

be

says, an encouraging presence in my mind. They’re almost

then that I notice the

little area.

howls in

sound of

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

occasional crash. A

relatively peaceful back here, with only Teddy and Bren’s corpses, Lisa’s unconscious form, and the vampire in front of me.

been searching for so long. Don’t you want to know the truth of

My story?

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stupid ke? Their rules? Their

old ways?”

face once again settled into that pale, death–transcendent beauty. Come with me, kitten. I’ll keep you safe, teach you your powers. Tell you the truth

words are urgent, and I have so many fucking questions,

body.

speak. I don’t know how bad

be small.

neck again, the skin is smooth and unblemished beneath my

wonder I’m

throbbing, but the

of my coar

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and your friend, too. I’ll give you the freedom he can’t. I’ll give you the knowledge she won’t. Come,

girl inside of me, the one desperate for the love of my family, sways toward him.

the ecstasy I’d felt taunting me from

sense of it

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

blink.

still

cupping my cheek with a soft croon. A

Ava!

if

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