Tangled

145 Ava: Selene’s Shows

“TV?” Lucas asks, and I nod. ❤

“Selene likes anything on the Shifter Network.”

His hand freezes with the remote pointing at the TV. “Your dog watches TV?” he asks carefully, with a hint of laughter in his words. Like he doesn’t want to offend me with his amusement.

“She’s a basic bitch,” I say cheerfully, ignoring Selene’s mental growl.

Lucas looks at Selene, then me, then back to the TV, obediently turning it to the right channel. sᴇaʀᴄh thᴇ Find ɴøᴠel.nᴇt website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

One of her shows is playing, like it always is. I don’t watch it much, but I’m pretty sure there’s always a drama online, even if it’s a rerun.

Almost always. Sometimes it’s a talk show. She sounds so disgusted by that, I have to bite my lip to keep from laughing.

Lucas, meanwhile, is staring at the TV.

He’s tuned into the middle of a shifting scene, a CGI moment of a male human’s clothes bursting at the

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scams as he transforms into a wolf, complete with the sound of cracking bones and snapping flesh.

“That,” he says, “is disgusting. Shifting is beautiful, and they’ve turned it into a horror show.”

“That’s only the tip of the iceberg,” I mutter, staring at Selene, who’s ignoring our comments.

I love this episode, she sighs. He’s going to find her in the forest and she falls in love… Of course, she can’t do

anything about it. She’s still dating that human kid

from math class.

“Why didn’t he take his clothes off before shifting?” Lucas mutters, completely distracted. “It doesn’t look like there’s an emergency. Just destroyed his clothes for no reason. That isn’t logical. What’s he going to do when he shifts back? Just walk around naked? He’s too old to be shifting uncontrolled.”

in any pack, but

any

eyebrows coming together as he continues to watch the

Start to

some sort of wolf–dog hybrid,

smaller

agrees. He is

her, the fifty–pound husky with a wolf inside, but manage to keep

me as he continues to watch the train wreck on

turns at the sound of a twig snapping, and Lucas snaps, “That’s a

hunter, Selene

his arm up in the air. “Why would he show himself to a teenage human like that? You never know when they’re going to report you for violations against Human Survival Rights. You can’t stalk a human and expect

a fated connection, Selene

the

give Lucas a cold shoulder.

put that together before. I’ll have to ask her

about that.

your dog likes this trash?” he asks, finally

tail up. ears perked, completely zoned in on her

know you

is unusual.”

“Yeah. Just a bit.”

growing heavy. The mindless chatter from the TV

sort of lullaby,

Just a little rest.

much is okay,

always there to save her from her bullies, Selene sighs, her voice dreamy in my mind. It’s so

on human school grounds is asking for punishment from his alpha. No wolf shifter would be

A Biomate

intensifies. Is she

uncertainty.

throat. I blink, the haze of sleep and worry dissipating as I realize he’s been mind–linked

races. News about

stretch into minutes, each one an eternity. Finally, he looks down

says softly, his hand brushing a stray lock of hair from my face. “But I have to check on a lead

I push it aside, latching onto the glimmer of hope

jaw clenching. When he speaks again, his voice is low,