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

that erratic plink, plink–plink of

voices

Plink.

Plink–plink.

Plink.

my mind, coiling around my heart and squeezing with a mania of isolation and fear. I try to move again, the chains rattling like mocking

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the sound raw

go!” I 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

my body, each one tearing out of my throat. It’s useless.

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

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

a

A fucking cell..

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vampire’s dungeon like a gothic romance heroine. Except there’s no dashing hero coming to save me. No one even

1. am.

Plink–plink–plink.

up pace, as if mocking my S~ᴇaʀᴄh the Findɴovel.ɴet website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters

to rage against the unfairness of it

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

weak and

I hate this.

around. Hated his grim

was here to tell me I

take his smugness over this any day of

possibly find me when

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where I

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

her fierce determination and unwavering loyalty. She won’t give

they really go up against vampires and

know anything about this world.

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

Plink.

Plink–plink.

Plink.

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

to taste blood and focus on the pain. It grounds me,

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have to believe that Kellan and Ava will find me. That Lucas and the Westwood

Because the

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

moment, just a

Plink.

face fills my mind and I can’t

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

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