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?

whisper, but there’s nothing.

plink–plink of something

voices are

Plink.

Plink–plink.

Plink.

around my heart and squeezing with a mania of isolation and fear. I try to

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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

my skin tearing, blood trickling down my forearms. Sobs wrack my body, each one tearing out of my throat. It’s useless.

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

Plink. Plink–plink.

to 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

a

A fucking cell..

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bubbles up my throat, escaping in a strangled laugh. I’m chained up in some vampire’s dungeon like a gothic romance heroine. Except there’s no

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Plink–plink–plink.

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again, to rage against the unfairness of it

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

Humans are weak and

I hate this.

I’d hated how he was always around. Hated his grim

he was here to tell me I told

his smugness over this

can he possibly

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where

hot and bitter. I let

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

really go up against vampires and win?

don’t know. I don’t know anything about this world.

fucking scared and I

Plink.

Plink–plink.

Plink.

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

hard enough to taste blood and focus on

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Ava will find me. That Lucas and the Westwood pack will tear this place apart

to believe that. Because the alternative is too terrifying to consider.

around me, his voice in my ear telling me

a moment, I almost believe

Plink.

face fills my mind and

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

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