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.
forcing us to run the full five miles-while Lisa and I bemoaned every mile, thinking
ranking in my heart rises
real miles might have actually
I say after a while, realizing both men seem
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
These two...
them before. I know
more than once.
even know
and peering outside. "Kind isn't a word anyone
Mentor.
Kind is
hidden in his gruff words and demands
them say a word, but their faces
tense again, and Selene perks her cars. Something's happening. Maybe they'll explain it
fingers have been fiddling with
Sorry. But my stomach is churning, acid eating
seems to be
"What's going on?"
glances toward me and shakes his head. "No one's
Well, that's good
that doesn't answer
men seem on edge, taking station on either end of the room Muddy Blue
pause.
approaches. It must be the new guards, because he shares a
is
Whatever happened-it's significant.
unable to ignore the palpable
finally speaks up, his words clipped and devoid of
my chest. "How is that
silent, their faces unreadable. Selene shifts beside me, her hackles raised, sensing the unease permeating
room.
that dhampir. This is
give me the urge
could they possibly want with
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