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

16. 16.

the clearing. My wolves move

no trail, no sign of the monsters responsible for this atrocity. It's as

my voice rough with emotion. "There has to

know it's futile. Whoever did this was meticulous, leaving no trace of

But if it's not, we risk a war that

the streets to run crimson beneath our silver moon. A true war hasn't come to any pack in a long

It's real.

ICCS Devery

already

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

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

Deep.

Slow.

no more leeway for mistakes and second

wolves rely on me for their safety, their

do you think?" Kellan asks, his voice so soft not even

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

how much this decision galls

idea of establishing any sort of connection with those bloodsucking monsters, but

around for

1. us.

can't keep getting jerked

my eyes again, I square my

looking to me for guidance now more than ever

"is everyone accounted for?"

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

is reeling, grasping for answers that refuse to

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

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