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.”

a single sip of water

hungry,

to stand there like an awkward

I’m the one to step toward him, grabbing his

hand.

mine immediately, grasping on like

I ever doubt this

mutters in the back of my

But I don’t think they matter to

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to the couch like a puppy, and I have to stifle a laugh when

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

you doing

widen at the blunt honestly coming out of

because of how happy I sound

Hell, I am concerned.

Selene reminds me,

Shit.

can’t speak any untruths when I’ve eaten Fae food.

Sister Miriam said?

wrong?” he asks, and I groan internally even as my mouth takes off without permission.

guilty over Lisa being

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

mouth, his eyes narrowing as he yanks his hand out of mine. The force of his glare is intense,

the fuck are you? Where’s

say, but his hand muffles the words.

and he loosens his grip on my face just a

Ava,” I

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

and Selene air snaps in his

sigh. “I’m not talking like this out of my own. will. I am, for the time being, unable to lie.” Scowling, I smack his hand

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no filter.”

fades to confusion. “How is

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