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?

I whisper, but

that erratic plink, plink–plink of

the voices are gone.

Plink.

Plink–plink.

Plink.

incessant 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

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chest and I scream, the sound

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

forearms. Sobs wrack my body, each

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

Plink. Plink–plink.

Rough stone walls, a small window high above my head. The barest hint of moonlight filters through, only to be swallowed by clouds a moment

in a

A fucking cell..

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some vampire’s dungeon like a gothic romance heroine.

1. am.

Plink–plink–plink.

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want to scream again, to rage against the unfairness of it all.

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

weak and helpless against the

I hate this.

Hated his grim determination to keep us

I wish desperately that he was here

smugness over this any day

how? How can he possibly find

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know where

sting my eyes, hot and bitter. I let them fall, too tired to fight

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

really go up against vampires and win?

know. I don’t know anything about

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

Plink.

Plink–plink.

Plink.

out every other thought. It’s maddening, the irregularity

and focus on the pain. It grounds me, keeps me from slipping

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Kellan and Ava will find me. That Lucas and

that. Because the alternative is

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

a moment, just a moment, I almost

Plink.

until Bren’s face fills my mind and

breeding kink and the biting. Of how he wasn’t great

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