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?

whisper, but there’s nothing.

plink, plink–plink of something

the voices

Plink.

Plink–plink.

Plink.

into my mind, coiling around my heart and squeezing with a mania of isolation and fear. I try to

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and I scream, the sound raw and

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

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

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

Plink. Plink–plink.

adjust to the darkness. Shapes slowly emerge from the inky blackness. Rough stone walls, a small window high above my head. The barest hint of moonlight filters through, only to be swallowed by clouds

a

A fucking cell..

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strangled laugh. I’m chained up in some vampire’s dungeon like a gothic romance heroine. Except

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Plink–plink–plink.

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rage against

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

Humans are weak and

I hate this.

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

was here to tell me I told you

smugness over this any day of the

how? How can he possibly find me when

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where

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

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

it be enough? Can they really go up against vampires

don’t know

so fucking scared and I don’t

Plink.

Plink–plink.

Plink.

It’s maddening, the irregularity of it.

blood and focus on the pain. It grounds me, keeps me from

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Kellan and Ava will find me. That Lucas and the Westwood pack will tear this place apart stone by stone until they bring me

have to believe that. Because the

face. I imagine his arms around me, his voice in my ear telling me it’s going to be okay.

just a moment, I

Plink.

Bren’s face fills my mind and I can’t stop thinking about him.

breeding kink and the biting. Of how he wasn’t great at foreplay. Of the slightly–better–than mediocre sex and then the aphrodisiac that

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