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?

but

that erratic plink, plink–plink of

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

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scream, the sound raw

but I don’t care. I have to get out. I have to find Ava. “You can’t keep me

pull and twist, my skin tearing, blood trickling down my forearms. Sobs wrack my body,

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

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

in a cell.

A fucking cell..

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up in some vampire’s dungeon like a gothic romance

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Plink–plink–plink.

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

hidden deep inside. I

are weak and helpless

I hate this.

was always around. Hated his grim determination to keep us safe, at the expense

I wish desperately that he was here to

this any day

can he possibly find me when I don’t

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know where I

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

loyalty. She won’t give up on me. She’ll

they really go up against vampires and win?

know anything about this world.

scared. I’m so fucking scared and I don’t know what to

Plink.

Plink–plink.

Plink.

thought. It’s maddening, the irregularity of it.

bite my lip hard enough to taste blood and focus

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

believe that. Because the alternative is too terrifying to

face. I imagine his arms around me, his voice in

a moment, I almost believe

Plink.

my mind and

a while ago was his weird breeding kink and the biting. Of how he wasn’t great at foreplay. Of the

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