Tangled

Chapter 151

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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.”

a single sip of water to it. “You can get it

not hungry, either.”

to stand there like an

the one to

hand.

mine immediately, grasping on like

did I ever doubt this

mutters in the back

But I don’t think they

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like a puppy, and I have to

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

you doing

and my eyes widen at the blunt

watches me with concern. Probably because of how happy I

be concerned, too. Hell,

reminds me, and I

Shit.

any untruths when I’ve eaten Fae food.

that what Sister Miriam

groan internally even

over Lisa

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

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

are you? Where’s

to say, but

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

Ava,” I

enough to share her secrets. Who are you? What did you do to

a low growl to his words, and Selene air

my own. will. I am, for the time being, unable to lie.” Scowling, I smack his hand away. “Which

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no filter.”

face fades to confusion.

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