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 there’s nothing.

plink–plink

voices

Plink.

Plink–plink.

Plink.

of isolation and fear. I try to move

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the sound raw and

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 can’t keep me

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

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

Plink. Plink–plink.

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

a cell.

A fucking cell..

142 Lika Chained

a gothic

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Plink–plink–plink.

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rage against the unfairness

hidden deep inside. I can’t shift into a wolf or

weak and

I hate this.

drift to Kellan. I’d hated how he was always around. Hated his grim determination

wish desperately that he was here to tell me I told you

this any day of the

he possibly find me

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where

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

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

Can they really go up against vampires and win?

don’t know anything about this world.

fucking scared and I don’t know

Plink.

Plink–plink.

Plink.

maddening, the irregularity of it.

I bite my lip hard enough to taste blood and focus on the pain. It grounds me, keeps me from slipping into

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

to believe that. Because the alternative is too

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

for a moment, just a moment, I

Plink.

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

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 to good

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