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"

true. Even her scent has been erased from the

16. 16.

in a slow circle, taking in the scene 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

trail, no sign of the

with emotion. "There has to

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

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

streets to run crimson beneath our silver moon. A true war hasn't come to any pack in a long time. This is inconceivable, and yet we're

It's real.

ICCS Devery

have already died,

my life revolves around her, Ava alone can't possibly

we're all being led to one conclusion, like

Deep.

Slow.

no

me for their safety,

you think?" Kellan asks, his voice so soft not even the wolves near us would be able to decipher his

her Sister Miriam. The connection I share with my beta

how much

of me rebels against the idea of establishing any sort of connection with

around for

1. us.

keep getting jerked

my eyes again, I square

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

"is everyone accounted for?"

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

reeling, grasping for answers that

we let ourselves become so vulnerable? So exposed? The

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