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 from the very

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disturbed heaps continue to burn, casting an eerie glow across the clearing. My wolves move like shadows, their movements

of the monsters responsible for

searching I order, my voice rough with emotion. "There has to be something we're

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

it's probably the vampires. But if it's not, we risk a

many wolves are already clamoring, screaming for the streets to run crimson beneath our silver moon. A true war hasn't come to any pack in a

It's real.

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already died, but for

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

we're all being led to one conclusion, like sheep to slaughter, Closing my eyes,

Deep.

Slow.

only lead to misstep. There's no more

on me

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

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

how much this decision galls

sort of connection with those bloodsucking monsters, but we're operating too blind, and

a time to wait around for the scraps any spies might

1. us.

keep getting jerked

my eyes again,

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

"is everyone accounted for?"

are still missing." Ryder reports, ever 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

grasping for answers that

become so vulnerable? So exposed? The

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