Tangled

Chapter 171

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171 Avar Trusting Vanessa

sa saws up before dinner, with a bag full of doctor stuff and @puu milar ny that tells me I'm got dong anything until she gets

she needs.

bel suffer through the blood pressure, my blood being drawn and Taken away by one of my new stone-faced bodyguards, of which there are at least 6, and a lot of questions she asks me every single day My answers haven't changed, but she still asks them.

I watch intently as Vanessa packs up her medical supplies, my mind churning with the weight of the secrets I'm keeping. With the balt- baked plans inside my head. With my desperate need to save Lisa from whatever fate the Mad Prince has planned.

1 wet my lips, trying to find the right words.

Vanessa, how do you feel about keeping secrets from your mate?" The question slips out before I can stop it.

She pauses, a knowing smile playing on her lips, her eyes twinkling.

Trouble in paradise already with the overbearing Alpha?"

I glance toward the bedroom door "Can the bodyguards hear

verything we say in here?"

She looks amused, "No. Your prior Alpha had this room. soundproofed

me and I take her

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of it is stuff Lucas knows, and some are things I haven't told him

on."

in her eyes. "But I'm also loyal to my Luna. I can't give you a strai my own

swift. "It doesn't endanger Westwood. But Lucas

you a straight answer without knowing what it

with her response, torn between the need to unburden myself and the fear

your best option right now, Selene reminds

take a deep breath. "Selene isn't a

brows knit together,

slowly, her eyes flickering between me and

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I've yet to get a straight answer out of her. It's impossible.

about her"

clear in Vanessa's eyes. "Oh. That's good, at least." But I can see the wheels turning in her head as

on things, I rush, "Selene thinks she can talk to my mother's wolf. I want to try. The real problem is that we have to force her to renounce her pack in order to keep Selene's ex "That might kill her," the healer says automatically, glancing again.

unlikely to happen." Vanessa frowns. "Let me think this through for a moment. There has to be a better way." It would be good if there

if dismissing ideas that don't quite fit. The sight of her deep in th Settling onto the bed beside Selene, I run my fingers through her soft fur, focusing on the sensation of

mind.

pull the wolf's presence out if the human host is unconscious?"

might be possible, she admits, her voice echoing in my mind. But there are too many variables to say for certain. "Selene says it might be possible, but there are too many variables to know for

nods, her expression thoughtful. "And what about your mother's wolf? Will she

for words. Loyalty is

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