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"

been erased from the very

16. 16.

with growing frustration. The disturbed heaps continue to burn, casting an eerie glow across the clearing. My wolves move like shadows, their movements precise and focused as they search for any clue,

No scent, no trail, no sign of the monsters responsible for this atrocity.

my voice rough with emotion. "There has to be something

futile. Whoever did this was meticulous,

the vampires. But if it's not, we risk a war

A true war hasn't come to any

It's real.

ICCS Devery

have already died, but

I love her, as much as my life revolves around her, Ava alone can't possibly

we're all being led to one conclusion, like

Deep.

Slow.

lead to misstep. There's no more leeway for mistakes and second

many wolves rely on me

do you think?" Kellan asks, his voice so soft not even the wolves near us would

Ava. Connect with her Sister Miriam. The connection I share with my beta is

much this decision galls

of connection with those

wait around

1. us.

keep

my eyes again, I

guidance now more than ever before. And I won't let them

"is everyone accounted for?"

on full alert. I have two groups out looking for our missing wolves There's no

grasping for

How did we let ourselves become so vulnerable? So

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