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 there’s

that erratic plink, plink–plink of

the voices

Plink.

Plink–plink.

Plink.

squeezing with a mania of isolation and fear. I try to move

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scream, the sound raw

sears through my arms, but I don’t care. I have to get out. I have to find

trickling down my forearms. Sobs wrack my body, each one tearing out of my throat. It’s useless. The chains hold fast, unyielding.

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

Plink. Plink–plink.

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

in a

A fucking cell..

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vampire’s dungeon like a gothic

1. am.

Plink–plink–plink.

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to scream again, to rage against the unfairness

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

and helpless against

I hate this.

around. Hated his grim determination to

was here to tell me I

smugness over this any day

how? How can he possibly

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know where I

bitter. I let them fall, too tired to fight them.

Ava, of her fierce determination and unwavering loyalty. She won’t give up

be enough? Can they really go up against vampires

don’t know anything about

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

Plink.

Plink–plink.

Plink.

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

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

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

the

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

a moment, just a moment, I almost believe it.

Plink.

until Bren’s face fills my mind and I

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

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