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?

I whisper, but there’s

that erratic plink, plink–plink of something dripping.

voices

Plink.

Plink–plink.

Plink.

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

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scream, the

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

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

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

Plink. Plink–plink.

eyes 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 moonlight filters through, only to be swallowed

in a

A fucking cell..

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

1. am.

Plink–plink–plink.

pace, as if mocking my S~ᴇaʀᴄh the Findɴovel.ɴet website on

to rage against

deep inside. I can’t shift

and helpless against

I hate this.

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

he was here to tell me I told you so.

his smugness over this any day

he possibly find me

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where

I let them fall,

unwavering loyalty. She won’t

be enough? Can they really go up against

don’t know

fucking scared and I

Plink.

Plink–plink.

Plink.

fills my head, driving out every other thought. It’s maddening, the irregularity of

my lip hard enough to taste blood and focus

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

to believe that. Because the

and picture Kellan’s face. I imagine his arms around

moment, just a moment, I almost believe

Plink.

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

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

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