Tangled

Chapter 151

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“Ava?”

Disoriented after returning to Lisa’s apartment, I can only blink as Lucas steps inside, looking concerned.

“Hi.” The greeting feels stilted, but I’m still regaining my bearings.

There’s something about Sister Miriam’s talk about payment that bothers my mind, trying to pry loose some memory–but I shove it aside, needing to focus on the man in front of me.

It’s dark in the apartment, but the TV is still going. Selene shakes herself before heading to the couch, leaving me with the soft impression of her presence in my head.

“You didn’t answer your phone,” Lucas explains,

looking a little awkward as he stands there in the doorway.

“I didn’t hear it.” Now that he’s in front of me, the idea

of telling him everything… Is a lot harder.

It isn’t that I don’t want to, but that it’s just–how do

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you even approach this kind of conversation?

Especially knowing how much responsibility weighs on his shoulders.

But leaving him in the dark isn’t an option.

“I brought dinner.” But his hands are empty, which he only seems to realize at this moment. “Shit. I left it in

the car.”

my stomach curdling at the thought of even adding a single sip of water to it. “You can

hungry, either.”

to stand there like an awkward teenager, my

the one to step toward

hand.

his fingers between mine immediately, grasping on like he

did I ever doubt

reasons, Selene mutters in the back

think they matter

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to stifle

the couch with a little side–eye, but she gives a slight tail wag to Lucas

doing okay?”

widen

of how happy I

too. Hell, I am

food, Selene reminds me, and I

Shit.

speak any untruths when I’ve eaten Fae

what Sister Miriam

internally even as

guilty over Lisa being kidnapped,

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you everything. I have too many secrets and don’t know how to begin explaining them all to

of mine. The force

fuck are you? Where’s

but his hand muffles

tap at his hand, and he loosens his grip on my face just

Ava,” I say

this. She doesn’t trust me enough to share her secrets. Who are you?

his words, and Selene air snaps in his direction,

for the time being, unable to lie.” Scowling, I smack his

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no filter.”

in his face fades to

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