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.”

adding a single sip of water to it. “You can get it if you’re hungry though. And eat

hungry, either.”

continues to stand there like an awkward

one to step toward him,

hand.

between mine immediately, grasping on

did I ever doubt this

mutters in the back

they matter to

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puppy, and I have to stifle a laugh when he

beside me, I let our linked hands fall between us. Selene scoots into the corner of the couch with a little side–eye, but she gives

doing okay?”

cheerfully, and my eyes widen

me with concern. Probably because of how happy I sound while admitting to not doing

concerned, too. Hell,

reminds me, and I

Shit.

speak any untruths when I’ve eaten Fae

what Sister Miriam said?

I groan internally even as my mouth takes

feeling horribly guilty over

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I talked to Sister Miriam behind your back, and didn’t tell you everything. I have too many secrets and don’t know how

over my mouth, his eyes narrowing as he yanks his hand out of mine.

the fuck are you? Where’s Ava?”

say, but

his grip

Ava,” I say

“No. Ava doesn’t talk like this. She doesn’t trust me enough to share her secrets. Who are you?

growl to his words, and Selene air snaps in his direction,

I sigh. “I’m not talking like this out of my own. will. I am, for the time being, unable to

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no filter.”

his face fades to confusion. “How

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