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

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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 this atrocity. It's as if they never

order, my voice rough with emotion. "There has

know it's futile.

vampires. But if it's not, we risk

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

It's real.

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already died, but for

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

to

Deep.

Slow.

only lead to misstep. There's no

many wolves rely on me for

so soft not even the wolves near us would be able to decipher

connection I share with my beta is tight, so no others can interfere or

knowing how much this

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

time to wait around for the scraps any spies

1. us.

keep getting jerked

eyes again, I square my

wolves. They're looking to me for guidance now more than ever before. And I won't

"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 warmth or solace

mind is reeling, grasping for

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

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