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"

Even her scent has been erased from the

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

nothing. No scent, no trail, no sign of the monsters responsible for

rough with emotion. "There has

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

if it's not, we risk a war that will take too

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

It's real.

ICCS Devery

many have already

I love her, as much as my life revolves around her, Ava alone can't

to one conclusion, like sheep to slaughter, Closing my eyes,

Deep.

Slow.

will only lead to misstep. There's no

wolves rely on me for their

voice so soft not even the wolves near us would

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

much this decision galls

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

a time to wait around for

1. us.

can't keep getting

my eyes again, I square my

They're looking to me for guidance now more than ever before. And I

"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 or solace in the intense heat radiating from the funeral mounds, made of hay and dried wood, to burn

for answers that refuse

so vulnerable? So

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