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.”

not hungry,” I’m quick to assure him, my stomach curdling at the thought of even adding a single sip of water to it. “You can

not hungry, either.”

stand there like an awkward teenager, my lips

in.” I’m the one to

hand.

on like he never wants to let go.

ever doubt

Selene mutters in the back of my

But I don’t think they

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puppy, and I have to stifle

linked hands fall between us. Selene scoots into the corner of the couch with a

you doing

answer cheerfully, and my eyes widen at the blunt

me with concern. Probably because of how happy I sound while admitting to

Hell, I

me, and I

Shit.

any untruths when I’ve

that what Sister Miriam said?

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

feeling horribly guilty over

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your back, and didn’t tell you everything. I have too many secrets and don’t know how to begin explaining them all

mine. The force of his glare is intense, causing my heart to thump wildly in my chest.

the fuck are you? Where’s

to say, but his hand

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

Ava,” I

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

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

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

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