Tangled

Chapter 182

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182 Lucas: Ghoulish Discovery

LUCAS =

Who the fuck steals burning bodies of the dead?

The motive is completely unfathomable.

Angry flames lick at the night sky, smoldering remnants of what should have been a sacred night, with souls returned to the embrace of the Moon Goddess.

Instead, there are eighteen disturbed mounds, with no bodies to

be found.

Nude after my shift, my bare feet sink into the sodden earth as I move closer, mud squelching between my toes.

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"Alpha." Kellan's voice cuts through the haze of my thoughts. He holds out a bundle of clothes, emergency spares we keep on hand

for situations like this.

Grabbing only a pair of jeans, I pull them on with a vicious yank, fury boiling just beneath my skin. The breeze, cool and oblivious to the undercurrents of the night, is almost soothing against my heated skin. Around me, my wolves move through the clearing, noses to the ground as they try to parse out any lingering scents. But there's nothing. The air is too clean, too pure. It's as if someone took a giant eraser and before us.

"I don't understand," I mutter, more to myself than anyone else.

"How can there be no scent? It's like the area's been sanitized."

Kellan frowns, his brow furrowed in concentration. "It's not just the scents of the offackers that are missing. I can't even catch a whiff of Ava"

Even her scent has been erased from the

16. 16.

burn, casting an eerie glow across the clearing. My wolves move like shadows, their movements precise and focused as they search

the monsters responsible for this atrocity. It's as if

with emotion. "There has to be something

I know it's futile. Whoever

course it's probably the vampires. But if it's not, we risk a war that will take too many

run crimson beneath our silver moon. A true war hasn't come to

It's real.

ICCS Devery

already died, but for

life revolves around her, Ava alone can't possibly be the

to one conclusion, like sheep to slaughter, Closing

Deep.

Slow.

will only lead to misstep. There's no more leeway for mistakes

wolves rely on me for

even the wolves near us would be able

Sister Miriam. The connection I share with my beta is tight, so no others can

much

sort of connection with

isn't a time to wait around

1. us.

can't keep getting jerked

my eyes again, I

They're looking to me for guidance now more than ever before.

"is everyone accounted for?"

Blackwood, and they're on full alert. I have two groups out looking for our missing wolves There's no warmth or solace in the intense

mind is reeling, grasping for answers

we let ourselves become so vulnerable? So exposed? The questions gnaw

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