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 very

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the clearing. My wolves move like shadows, their movements precise and focused as they search

no sign of the monsters responsible for this atrocity. It's as if they never

I order, my voice rough with emotion. "There

futile. Whoever did this

it's probably the vampires. But if it's not, we risk a war that will take

streets to run crimson beneath 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

my life revolves around her, Ava alone

all being led to one conclusion,

Deep.

Slow.

only lead to misstep. There's no

rely on me for their

asks, his voice so soft not even the wolves near us would

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

much

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

time to wait around for the scraps any spies might

1. us.

can't keep getting

eyes again, I

guidance now more than ever before. And I won't let them

"is everyone accounted for?"

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

mind is reeling, grasping for answers that

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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