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.
the full five miles-while Lisa and I bemoaned every mile, thinking
old man's ranking
real miles might have actually
while, realizing both men seem to be
presence has been replaced with these two, which
These two...
them before. I know they've
more than once.
even know their
snorts, before walking to the window and peering outside. "Kind isn't a word anyone uses
Mentor.
is not really a word that fits his crotchety
it's there, hidden in his gruff words and demands for
turning to glance at each other. Neither of them say a word, but their
perks her cars. Something's happening. Maybe
I don't mean to; my fingers have been fiddling with them for a while,
into my thigh. Sorry. But my stomach is
Eyes seems to be
"What's going on?"
glances toward me and shakes his head.
Well, that's good
doesn't
either end of the room Muddy Blue Eyes stays near
pause.
guards, because he shares a few quick words before closing it again, and their footsteps don't leave back
movement is tense. Jerky.
Whatever happened-it's significant.
going on?" I press, unable to
words clipped and devoid of emotion.
in my chest. "How is that even
remain silent, their faces unreadable. Selene shifts beside me, her hackles raised, sensing the
room.
dhampir. This is
only give me the urge to
they possibly want with
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