Tangled

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?

but there’s nothing.

erratic plink, plink–plink

the voices are

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

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chest and I scream, the sound raw and desperate.

me 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

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

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

Plink. Plink–plink.

from the inky blackness. Rough stone walls, a small window high above my head. The barest hint of moonlight

in a

A fucking cell..

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

1. am.

Plink–plink–plink.

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rage against

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

are weak and

I hate this.

his grim determination to keep us

he was here to

over this any day of

possibly find

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know where I

bitter. I let them fall, too

fierce determination and unwavering loyalty. She won’t give up on me. She’ll tear this world apart

it be enough? Can they really go up

don’t know

scared. I’m so fucking scared and I don’t know what to

Plink.

Plink–plink.

Plink.

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

and focus

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believe that Kellan and Ava will find me. That Lucas and the Westwood pack will tear this place apart stone

that. Because the alternative is too

his arms around me, his voice in my ear telling me it’s

for a moment, just a moment, I almost

Plink.

fills my mind and

while ago was his weird breeding kink and the biting. Of how he wasn’t great at foreplay. Of the slightly–better–than mediocre