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

blurs from darkness

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

elegant monster

have a

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

can’t outrun him, not while carrying her. My only choice is to stand

If it

me, a crackling current that dances along my

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beneath my skin.

It’s electric.

It’s terrifying.

It’s hope.

charges with a loud snarl and I trust

have been impossible to track is now something I can not only see,

to

How to block.

How to move.

press my hand against his arm, how to utilize his momentum to throw his body

please.

to step as

strikes, but I’ve practiced defense to exhaustion every

tries to grab me, he’s shoved

regain

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go on forever.

can feel the

way my

crop top is soaked in

I be unconscious already?

Selene says, an encouraging presence in my

I notice the sounds

little area.

in

of

growling of wolves here, fighting. Perhaps they’re on

A lot

it’s so relatively peaceful back here, with only Teddy and Bren’s corpses, Lisa’s unconscious form, and the vampire

fading, his face wary. “Come with us, kitten. I’ve been searching for

My story?

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you hate these stupid ke?

old ways?”

beauty. Come with me, kitten. I’ll

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, even

body.

shocked I can even speak. I don’t know how bad the damage to my neck is, but it can’t

be small.

I bring my hand to my neck again, the skin is smooth

wonder I’m

is there, throbbing, but the damage has disappeared.

faint outline of my coar

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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

girl inside of me, the one desperate for the love

the faint tingle of the ecstasy I’d felt taunting me from beyond the pain when he bit

to make sense of it all.

the power, feeling it pour out of me. For a second, I can almost imagine golden strands

blink.

still spotty.

before me, cupping my cheek with a soft croon.

Ava!

whisper, not sure if he

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