Tangled
Chapter 174
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174 Ava: Selene Isn't Human
Selene writhes against the bedspread, looking like a puppy chastised. She says these are our growing pains, and I'm too old to be throwing a tantrum like a pup.
She sounds so offended that I almost laugh.
Almost.
But I can feel the threat in her mental presence. If I dare to laugh now, I'll never hear the end of it.
So I focus on Vanessa, instead.
"Ava, listen. A wolf is not human. Our wolves think of ourselves. first, and everyone else secondary. They're focused on power first, and results second. Not on the sacrifices. Results are what matter, and everyt A soft, husky-like yowling bark comes out of Selene. That isn't true,
Isn't it?
Somehow, it feels very...
Don't you dare finish that thought. Selene snaps at the air. We also care about the sacrifices, and understand relationships become complicated when we do what needs to be done. Vanessa watches me with a patient stare.
"Sorry. Selene was talking."
"I can see that." Her smile is faint. "They usually do, when we get this talk. But it's usually when we're pups, and it comes from our
parents. This is the first wolves and the babes chat I've had with an
adult.
Wolves and the babes?
That sounds so... adorable.
But I remember clearly what a 12-year-old wolf shifter is like. A voracious appetite, short temper, and a tendency towards sneaking around to get what they want. Not very adorable.
"Look, Ava. Ultimately, the relationship wolves have with each other is not the same as humans have with each other. A wolf might understand why they were pushed aside, once all is said an done. They can ac detriment to their pack bond, knowing that the end result is the most important thing. But we," and she points between us, "are not like that. If Lucas were to ghost you, how would you feel?" That's easy. "Terrible." We've already lived through that.
"And if he did things behind your back, saying the entire time that it was what was best for you, and you just have to trust him?"
Seeing where she's going, I can't hold her gaze, lowering
mine to the bedspread. It's soft, with a few threads loose, perfect to pluck while being forced to face hard truths. "I would feel awful. Like he doesn't trust me. Like our relationship isn't as strong as it should be." Thinking on it, on how I felt when I lived in what I felt were gilded cages, "And angry. I would definitely be angry."
Vanessa nods. “Now, have Selene answer that question, and think about it. I'm going to see what I can do to make this 'hare-brained'
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scheme of yours work."
Selene walks stiff-legged to curl up under the window, flatly
refusing to respond to Vanessa's homework.
Which must mean that Vanessa's assessment of her Lycan psyche is spot-on.
It is not, Selene huffs, sounding rankled.
"Mhm."
it.
a huge part of me that still doesn't feel
me that's horrified to think back on
But more than that...
text stares up at me
just hate knowing that you're putting yourself in danger without
"Selene."
ears twitch, but
think we should go
tonight. It has to
I'll make it in
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uncharacteristically silent as I set my plans in motion. I don't ask how, but Kellan manages to
in time. Kellan alternates between calm and brooding, but there's a
at me with respect as Lucas' mate; he's never once looked at me with high
one that stabs into
knife.
to attend the rites of
massacre.
with Vanessa's words. There's a faint sense of her emotions in the back
feel her
about it, because Vanessa's
be wrong when I'm
seems like a simple concept, and yet it's changed something inside my head. Something that makes it hard
engines fills my ears as I rest my head against the small oval window. These
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clouds. It's a beautiful sunset below us, with
close my eyes, letting out
lives lost, and all I've really
but-I'm the alpha's
failure of
failure of
on my mind was
life in Cedarwood.
from here.
Away from responsibility.
Away from reality.
is missing. She's important. But those people who
They're important, too.
I want freedom, or did I want to
hearing every word of my
turns to look at the back of
shoulders slumping at his words. Whatever his opinion is, it's clearly not great. Vanessa was kind
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no idea what blunt words will come
I'm on my way to a funeral, and yet my heart cringes
because I'd been so certain I was growing as a person; now, I feel like I've taken so many
do the families of the victims see
will be furious
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