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–plink of something

voices are gone.

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 again, the chains rattling like mocking laughter.

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scream, the sound raw and desperate.

the manacles, the metal biting into my wrists. Pain sears through my arms, but I don’t care.

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

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

Plink. Plink–plink.

walls, a small window

in a

A fucking cell..

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chained up in some vampire’s dungeon like a gothic romance heroine. Except there’s no dashing hero coming

1. am.

Plink–plink–plink.

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again, to rage against the unfairness of it

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

are weak and

I hate this.

his grim determination to keep us safe, at the expense

here to tell me I

over this any

how? How can he possibly

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where

I let them

her fierce determination and unwavering loyalty. She won’t

it be enough? Can they really go up against vampires and win?

don’t know. I don’t know

fucking scared and

Plink.

Plink–plink.

Plink.

It’s maddening, the irregularity of it.

to taste blood and focus on the pain. It

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

have to believe that. Because the alternative

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

just a moment, I almost

Plink.

Bren’s face fills my mind and I can’t stop thinking about

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

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