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 air

16. 16.

glow across the clearing. My wolves move like shadows, their

No scent, no trail, no sign of the

searching I order, my voice rough with

the words leave my lips, I know it's futile. Whoever did this was meticulous, leaving

not, we risk a

war hasn't come to any

It's real.

ICCS Devery

many have already died, but for

much as my life revolves around her,

else. It feels like we're all being led to one conclusion, like sheep to slaughter, Closing my

Deep.

Slow.

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

rely on me for their safety,

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

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

how much this

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

time to wait around for

1. us.

can't keep getting

again, I square

They're looking to me for guidance now more

"is everyone accounted for?"

Blackwood, and they're on full alert. I have two groups out looking for our missing wolves

grasping for answers that refuse

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

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