Tangled

Chapter 142

142 Lisa: Chained

The sound of water dripping is the first thing to break through the darkness of my mind.

Plink.

Plink–plink.

Plink.

It’s an erratic rhythm that leaves me uncomfortable.

The voices come next, soft, sibilant whispers. Evil. Whoever they are, they’d be the villains in any story.

Eventually, I realize the darkness is really just pain. Pain that throbs and aches in half my face. But why?

Vampires.

That’s why.

My eyes fly open when I finally remember, and I struggle to sit up, blinking into the darkness.

I can’t see anything.

Are my eyes open?

My hands won’t reach my face, yanking against

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something cold and hard around my wrists.

Manacles?

Swiping my hands around, I can feel the heavy, rusted chains holding me down, bolted to the floor.

Fuck.

This is…

Really not good.

Ava. Is Ava here?

I whisper, but

erratic plink, plink–plink of something

the voices are

Plink.

Plink–plink.

Plink.

a mania of isolation and fear. I try to move again, the chains

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chest and I scream, the sound

go!” I yank at the manacles, the metal biting into my wrists. Pain sears through my arms, but I don’t care. I have to get out. I have to find Ava. “You

twist, my skin tearing, blood trickling down my forearms. Sobs wrack my body, each one tearing out of my throat. It’s useless. The chains hold

slump, the fight draining out of me. I can barely stand, the shackles forcing me to

Plink. Plink–plink.

force my eyes to adjust to the darkness. Shapes slowly emerge from the inky blackness. Rough stone walls, a small window high above my

a cell.

A fucking cell..

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a gothic romance heroine. Except there’s no dashing hero coming to save me. No one even knows where

1. am.

Plink–plink–plink.

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to rage against the unfairness

magic or super strength hidden deep inside. I can’t shift into a wolf or melt

are weak and helpless against the

I hate this.

Kellan. I’d hated how he was always around. Hated his

was here

over this any

he possibly find me when

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know where I

bitter. I let them fall, too tired to fight them.

won’t give up on me. She’ll tear this world

be enough? Can they really go up against

I don’t know anything about this world.

I know is that I’m scared. I’m so fucking scared

Plink.

Plink–plink.

Plink.

head, driving out every other thought. It’s maddening, the irregularity

to taste blood and focus on the pain. It grounds

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to believe that Kellan and Ava will find me. That Lucas and the Westwood pack will

Because the alternative is too terrifying to consider.

his arms around me, his voice in my ear

a moment, just a moment, I almost

Plink.

least until Bren’s face fills my mind and I can’t stop thinking about

he wasn’t great at foreplay. Of the slightly–better–than mediocre sex and then the aphrodisiac that had elevated it to good sex.

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