Tangled

Chapter 142

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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?

but there’s nothing.

plink–plink of something dripping.

the voices are gone.

Plink.

Plink–plink.

Plink.

incessant sound slithers into my mind, coiling around my heart and squeezing with a mania of isolation and fear. I try to move again, the chains

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scream, the sound raw

my wrists. Pain sears through my arms, but I don’t care. I

skin tearing, blood trickling down my forearms. Sobs wrack my body, each one

of me. I can barely stand, the shackles forcing me to hunch

Plink. Plink–plink.

emerge from the inky blackness. Rough stone walls, a small window high above

in a

A fucking cell..

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in a strangled laugh. I’m chained up in some vampire’s dungeon like a gothic romance heroine. Except there’s no dashing hero coming to save me. No one even knows where I

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Plink–plink–plink.

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scream again, to rage against the unfairness of it

a human. There’s no magic or super strength hidden deep inside. I can’t shift into a wolf or melt into

are weak and helpless against

I hate this.

Kellan. I’d hated how he was always around. Hated his grim determination to keep us safe,

desperately that he was here

his smugness over this any day of

he possibly find me when I

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where I am?

eyes, hot and bitter. I let them fall, too tired

of Ava, of her fierce determination and unwavering loyalty. She won’t give up on me. She’ll

will it 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

Plink.

Plink–plink.

Plink.

irregularity of it. I want to

don’t. I bite my lip hard enough to taste blood and focus on the pain. It grounds me, keeps me from

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have to hold on. I have to believe that Kellan and Ava will find me. That Lucas and

the alternative is too

Kellan’s face. I imagine his arms around

just a moment,

Plink.

until Bren’s face fills my mind

he wasn’t great at foreplay. Of

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