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.”

not hungry,” I’m quick to assure him, my stomach curdling at the thought of even adding a single sip of

not hungry,

Lucas continues to stand there like an awkward teenager, my

I’m the one to step toward him, grabbing

hand.

immediately, grasping on like he never wants

ever doubt

in the back of

they matter to

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have to stifle a laugh when he stands

between us. Selene scoots into the corner of the couch with a little side–eye,

you doing

eyes widen at the blunt

Probably because of how happy I sound while admitting to not

concerned, too. Hell, I am

Selene reminds me,

Shit.

speak any untruths when I’ve eaten Fae food.

Sister Miriam

he asks, and I groan internally even as my mouth takes off

feeling horribly guilty over Lisa being

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

presses his hand over my 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

I try to say, but his hand

at his hand, and he loosens his grip on my face just a little.

Ava,” I say

“No. Ava doesn’t talk like this. She doesn’t trust me enough to share

to his words, and Selene air snaps

own. will. I am, for the time being, unable to lie.”

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no filter.”

fades to confusion. “How is

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