Tangled
Chapter 181
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181 Ava: Twenty Laps Around the Track
Muddy Blue Eyes turns back in my direction, and while I can't sense any sort of real respect or care, he at least reclaims a
professional air when he addresses me.
Before he can ask anything important, I have an odd, niggling little bug in my car from what he'd said a few moments ago. "Five miles around the track is twenty laps?" I ask, with a faint frown. 1-what? His confusion is clear in his wrinkled brow and hesitation. "Yes. Twenty laps."
"Not twelve?"
"No. It's twenty. Four laps to a mile
My memory is very clear of my torture during training, and I know that can't be right. "Jericho told us to run five miles, and it was always twelve laps."
"Beta-Mentor Ashbourne?" Muddy-Blue Eyes looks astonished, his brows rising. "Only twelve laps? Are you sure?"
"Positive. He had us count them. The memory of my jello-legs after each lap have me shuddering. "It was torture."
"Torture? She's been blessed by the Moon Goddess for his favor, and she calls it torture," Muddy-
Blue Eyes' partner mutters, looking out the window and bringing his hand to his lips in a gesture of faith I've seen often in Westwood, but almost never in Blackwood. It's always the older wolves who do it. "Pertaps Beta Mentor Ashbourne
oft on newbies? I suggest
soft
and Muddy Blue Eyes shakes his head in a firm negative. Then ! pause, rolling that name over in my head. "Wait. Ashbourne... isn't that Kellan's family name?
"Beta Mentor Jericho is Beta Kellan's father, Muddy Blue Eyes confirms. "When he stepped down as beta to focus on training young wolves, Beta Kellan took his place."
Ah.
The odd feeling between them now makes sense. It doesn't seem like a favorable father-son connection, somehow.
"I see." In a few minutes, I've learned more about the man who spent ages training me and Lisa for hours every day than I did. when he was training us.
Another eye-opening experience.
he cut our laps nearly in half, instead of forcing us to run the full five miles-while Lisa and I bemoaned every mile, thinking we were really
cantankerous old man's ranking in
might have actually
both men seem to be waiting on
I shift uncomfortably on the bed. It seems their constant presence has been replaced with these two, which somehow makes everything worse. At least the other ones hated me and I didn't feel obligated to try
These two...
before. I know they've guarded Lisa's
more than once.
I don't even know their
peering outside. "Kind isn't a word anyone uses
Mentor.
Kind is not really a word that fits his
there, hidden in his
men stiffen, turning to glance at each other. Neither of them say a word, but their faces show how distracted they are inside their
shoulders tense again, and Selene perks her cars. Something's happening. Maybe they'll explain it when they're done
my fingers have been fiddling with them for a while,
my stomach is churning, acid eating through its
Muddy Blue Eyes seems to be done
"What's going on?"
glances toward me and shakes his head. "No one's injured. that's
Well, that's good
that doesn't
men seem on edge, taking station on either end of the room Muddy Blue Eyes stays near the window,
pause.
be the new guards, because he shares a few quick words
is
Whatever happened-it's significant.
unable to ignore the
the door finally speaks up, his words clipped and devoid of emotion. "The bodies
in my chest. "How is that even
beside
room.
dhampir. This is
give
could they possibly
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