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"

scent has been erased from

16. 16.

with growing frustration. The disturbed heaps continue to burn, casting an eerie glow across the clearing. My

there's nothing. No scent, no trail, no sign of the monsters responsible

searching I order, my voice rough with emotion.

my lips, I know it's futile. Whoever

not,

silver moon. A true war hasn't come to any pack in a long

It's real.

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already died, but for

as I love her, as much as my life revolves around her, Ava

all being led to one

Deep.

Slow.

to misstep. There's no more leeway for mistakes

on me for their safety,

Kellan asks, his voice so soft not even the wolves near us would be able to

I share with my beta

nods, knowing how much this decision galls

rebels against the idea of establishing any sort of connection with those bloodsucking monsters, but we're operating too blind, and

to wait around for the scraps any spies might

1. us.

can't keep getting

my eyes again, I

to me for guidance now more than

"is everyone accounted for?"

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

mind is reeling, grasping for answers that

we let ourselves become so vulnerable? So

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