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?

whisper, but there’s

plink, plink–plink of something

the voices are gone.

Plink.

Plink–plink.

Plink.

sound slithers into my mind, coiling around my heart and squeezing with a mania of isolation

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chest and I scream, the sound raw and desperate.

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

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

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

Plink. Plink–plink.

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 by clouds

a

A fucking cell..

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

1. am.

Plink–plink–plink.

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scream again, to rage against the unfairness of it

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

are weak and helpless against the

I hate this.

how he was always around. Hated his grim determination to keep

that he was here to tell

over this

How can he possibly find

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where I am?

eyes, hot and bitter. I let

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

really go up against vampires and

don’t know

know is that I’m 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.

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

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on. I have to believe that Kellan and Ava will find me. That Lucas and the Westwood pack will tear this place apart stone by stone until they bring

Because the alternative is too terrifying

face. I imagine his arms around me, his voice in my ear telling

a moment, just a

Plink.

fills my mind

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

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