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 there’s nothing.

that erratic plink, plink–plink

the voices

Plink.

Plink–plink.

Plink.

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

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the sound raw and desperate.

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

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

can barely stand, the shackles forcing me to hunch over. My muscles burn from the

Plink. Plink–plink.

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

a

A fucking cell..

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dungeon like a gothic romance heroine.

1. am.

Plink–plink–plink.

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scream again, to rage against the unfairness of it all.

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

Humans are weak and

I hate this.

hated how he was always around. Hated his grim determination to keep us

he was here to tell

his smugness over this any day of

how? How can he possibly find me when I don’t

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where

sting my eyes, hot and bitter. I let

of Ava, of her fierce determination and unwavering loyalty. She won’t give up on me. She’ll tear this world apart to

Can they really go up

I don’t know anything about this world.

I know is that I’m scared. I’m so fucking scared and I don’t know

Plink.

Plink–plink.

Plink.

head, driving out every other thought. It’s maddening, the irregularity of it. I want to scream, to beg

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

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

have to believe that. Because the alternative is too terrifying

Kellan’s face. I imagine his arms around me, his voice in my ear

just a moment,

Plink.

mind and I

a while ago was his weird 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 had elevated it

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