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.”

isn’t like naked shifters are a rare sight in any pack, but my lips quirk

any of these

his eyebrows coming together as he continues to watch the scene. “He’s

Start to

some sort

much smaller than shifters.

He is very small.

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

wrapping one arm around me as he continues to watch the train wreck on TV, where the

snapping, and

a terrible hunter, Selene agrees again.

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

fated connection,

adores the fated connections

to give Lucas a cold

that together before. I’ll

about that.

likes this trash?” he asks, finally turning from the screen

on the floor, tail up. ears

shakes his head. “I know you love her,

is unusual.”

“Yeah. Just a bit.”

envelops me as I curl up against him, my eyelids growing heavy. The mindless chatter from

odd sort of lullaby, but it

Just a little rest.

much is okay, right?

Selene sighs, her voice dreamy in my mind.

snorts. “Shifting on human school grounds is asking for punishment from his alpha. No wolf shifter would be able to

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in my chest intensifies. Is she okay? Has she eaten? Is she hurt? The questions swirl in

uncertainty.

I blink, the haze

heart races. News about Lisa?

still, his golden eyes unfocused. Seconds stretch into minutes, each one an eternity. Finally,

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

crashes over me, but I push it aside, latching onto the glimmer of hope in his words. “A

When he speaks again, his voice is low,