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.”

like naked shifters are a rare sight in any pack, but my

any of

eyebrows coming together as he

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wolf on screen is some sort of wolf–dog

smaller than shifters.

He is very

with a wolf inside, but manage to keep my

watch the train wreck on TV, where the wolf shifter stalks

snapping,

terrible hunter,

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,

how she adores the fated connections in

but continues to give Lucas

before. I’ll have to ask her

about that.

asks,

the floor, tail up. ears perked, completely zoned in

shakes his head. “I know you

is unusual.”

twitch. “Yeah.

curl up against him, my eyelids growing heavy. The mindless chatter from the TV

odd sort of

Just a little rest.

much is okay, right?

Selene sighs, her voice

from his alpha. No wolf shifter would

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smile at their banter, even as my thoughts drift to Lisa. The ache in my chest intensifies. Is she okay? Has she eaten? Is she hurt? The questions swirl in

uncertainty.

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

heart races. News

his golden eyes unfocused. Seconds stretch into minutes, each one an eternity. Finally, he looks down at me,

stray lock of hair from my face. “But I have to check on a lead

push it aside, latching onto the glimmer of hope in his words. “A lead?

he speaks again,