Tangled

Chapter 151

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151 Ava: The Truth Comes Out (1)

151 Ava: The Truth Comes Out (I)

“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.”

I’m quick to assure him, my stomach curdling at the thought of even adding a single sip of water to it. “You can get it if

hungry,

stand there like an

in.” I’m the one to step toward

hand.

slides his fingers between mine immediately, grasping on

did I ever doubt

mutters in the back of my

don’t think they matter

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I have to stifle a laugh when he

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

you doing

widen at the blunt honestly coming out

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

be concerned, too. Hell, I

reminds me, and I stiffen.

Shit.

when I’ve eaten Fae food.

Sister Miriam said?

even as my mouth

over Lisa being

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everything. I have

out of mine. The force of his glare is intense, causing my heart to

the fuck are you?

but his

his grip on my face just

I

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

his words, and Selene

talking like this out of my own. will. I am, for the

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no filter.”

face fades to confusion. “How

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