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"

her scent has been erased from the very

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

scent, no trail, no sign of the monsters responsible for

rough with

as the words leave my lips, I know it's futile. Whoever did this was meticulous, leaving no

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

wolves are already clamoring, screaming for the streets to run crimson beneath our silver moon. A true war hasn't come to any pack

It's real.

ICCS Devery

many have already died,

as my life revolves around her,

like we're all being led to one conclusion, like sheep

Deep.

Slow.

misstep. There's no more leeway for mistakes

rely on me for their safety,

even the wolves near us would be able to decipher

talk to Ava. Connect with her Sister Miriam. The connection I share with my beta is tight,

nods, knowing how much

sort of connection with those bloodsucking monsters, but we're operating too blind, and the stakes keep

around

1. us.

can't keep getting jerked

my eyes again, I

to me for guidance now more

"is everyone accounted for?"

still missing." Ryder reports, ever the responsible delta as he strides toward me. "I've already updated Vester at Blackwood, and they're on full alert. I have two groups out looking for our missing wolves There's no warmth or solace

reeling, grasping for answers that refuse

happen? How did we let ourselves become so vulnerable? So exposed? The questions gnaw at me, bringing no answers, only

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