Tangled

Chapter 168

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It isn't impossible, but it might kill her before we get any results. Her answer isn't quite hesitant, but not firm, either.

"You're not telling me something

It is hard to explain. Selene stands and shakes herself. The only thing we can do is try. But it is a great risk. We should talk to Vanessa before trying, I think, if you wish to have her renounce her pack. As a heal That makes sense, only-

Selene and I share a startled glance as the chaotic noises from outside crescendo into a cacophony of snarls and shouts. Terror seizes my throat, memories of the party flashing through my mind, but I push pas We rush to the window, and my heart nearly stops at the sight below.

It's a full-on brawl. Wolves. Shifters in their human form. They're all locked together, dozens of Blackwood wolves overwhelming the few guards at the lodge.

Ava, we need to go. Selene's voice is sharp in my mind, urging me into action.

We race downstairs, my pulse pounding in my ears. There are no bodyguards to stop me; they're in the fray.

Fuck. I'm going to end up with twenty of them after Lucas hears

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Marra winch rises above the din, his face a

mut of forty as he grapples with a narling wolf.

Telore I can respond, movement catches my eye. A Blackwood. Someone I vaguely recognize.

He launches at me, his body twisting and contorting as he shifts in

midair.

But Selene is faster. She meets the wolf head-on, and her snarl sends ice through my bones as she knocks him down.

I guess her body isn't very domestic dog, after all.

Chaos erupts around me. Claws and teeth flash past, barely missing me as I dodge and weave, my bodyguards struggling to form a protective

reach my ears, painting a grim

never going to submit-

deep and powerful. Clayton. Relief mingles with dread in my gut. He's

Selene's voice is a lifeline, anchoring

no idea where she is. I can sense her in this

of "traitor"

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from my nightmares. Todd Mason's mother, her eyes wild with grief and rage as she lunges

as guilt and terror

throat,

twist, a shove, and she's off me, my hands moving to flip her to the ground. But something goes wrong. The

stop with a sickening crack. She

What have

I stumble back, my heart hammering against my ribs as I

lungs seizing in my chest as

her. I killed Todd Mason's mother. Just like I killed

Ava! Get it together!

voice helps me avoid another wolf before one of my

haze of shock threatening

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memory from 1 sidestep the attack, grasping the wolf's foreleg as he passes. With a sharp twist, I use his own momentum against him, sending him crashing to the ground. He lands with a

dead? Did I just

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Just

done. It's easier this time, knowing he's not dead by my hand. But

see Clayton's massive wolf form bounding into the fray, flanked by several other wolves. Their arrival shifts the tide of the battle, the Blackwood wolves faltering in the face of this new

trying to make out

see that?

curiosity and wariness. I don't know what it is, but we need to

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she can't see

from the

in my cars as we draw closer, adrenaline surging through my veins. What if it's a trap? What if it's another enemy, lying in

a gut instinct that I can't. ignore. Selene runs

the midst of

A person, hunched

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