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.
instead of forcing us to run the full five miles-while Lisa and I bemoaned every mile, thinking we were
old man's ranking in my
miles might have
while, realizing both men seem to be waiting on some sort of
these two, which somehow makes everything
These two...
seen them before. I know they've guarded
more than once.
even know their
the window and peering outside. "Kind
Mentor.
agree. Kind is not really a word that fits his
his gruff
men stiffen, turning to glance at each other. Neither of them say a word, but their faces show how distracted
cars. Something's happening. Maybe
don't mean to; my fingers have been fiddling with them
Sorry. But my stomach is churning, acid eating through its lining as we
Eyes seems to be
"What's going on?"
and shakes his head. "No one's injured. that's what you're worried
Well, that's good
doesn't
seem on edge, taking station on either end of the room Muddy Blue Eyes stays near
pause.
when someone approaches. It must be the new guards, because he
is
Whatever happened-it's significant.
I press, unable to ignore
by the door finally speaks up, his words clipped and devoid
chest. "How
shifts beside me, her hackles raised,
room.
right, that dhampir. This is far worse
give me the urge to
possibly want with the
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