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 nothing.

erratic plink, plink–plink of something

the voices are gone.

Plink.

Plink–plink.

Plink.

coiling around my heart and squeezing with a mania of isolation and fear. I try to move again, the

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the sound

the metal biting into my wrists. Pain sears through my arms, but I don’t care. I have to get out. I have to find Ava.

forearms. Sobs wrack my body,

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

Plink. Plink–plink.

my 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

a

A fucking cell..

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

1. am.

Plink–plink–plink.

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again, to rage against the unfairness

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

Humans are weak and

I hate this.

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

desperately that he was here to tell me

this any day of the week.

How can he possibly find me

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where I am?

and bitter. I let them fall, too tired

won’t give up on me. She’ll tear this world apart to find me.

they really go up against

know. I don’t know anything

scared. I’m so fucking

Plink.

Plink–plink.

Plink.

other thought. It’s maddening, the irregularity

enough to taste blood and focus on the pain. It grounds me, keeps me from slipping into despair.

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

Because the

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

just a moment, I almost believe it.

Plink.

least until Bren’s face fills my mind and

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

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