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"

scent has been erased from the

16. 16.

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

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

rough with emotion. "There has to be something

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

not,

our silver moon. A true war hasn't come to any pack in a long time. This is

It's real.

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have already

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

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

Deep.

Slow.

will only lead to misstep. There's no more leeway

rely on me

soft not even the wolves near us would be

talk to Ava. Connect with her Sister Miriam. The connection I share with my beta is tight, so

nods, knowing how much this decision

of connection

isn't a time to wait around

1. us.

can't keep

my eyes again,

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

"is everyone accounted for?"

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

for answers that refuse

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

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