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.”

quick to assure him, my stomach curdling at the thought of even adding a single sip of water to

hungry,

stand there like an awkward teenager,

the one to step

hand.

grasping on like he never wants to

ever

were reasons, Selene mutters in the back of

I don’t think they matter

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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 a slight tail wag to Lucas when he glances in

doing

all,” I answer cheerfully, and my eyes widen

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

be concerned, too. Hell,

food, Selene reminds me,

Shit.

untruths when I’ve eaten Fae food.

what Sister Miriam

wrong?” he asks, and I groan internally even as my mouth

guilty over Lisa being kidnapped,

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

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

the fuck are you?

I try to say, but his hand muffles

he loosens his grip on my face just a

Ava,” I say

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

low growl to his words, and Selene air snaps in his direction, her hackles

the time

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no filter.”

his face fades to confusion. “How is

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