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"

been erased from the

16. 16.

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

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

with emotion. "There has to be something

know it's futile. Whoever did this

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

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 long time. This is inconceivable, and

It's real.

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have already died,

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

to one conclusion, like sheep to slaughter, Closing

Deep.

Slow.

There's no more leeway

rely on me

voice so soft not even the wolves near us

with her Sister Miriam. The connection I share with my beta is tight, so

knowing how much

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

a time to wait around for the scraps any

1. us.

keep getting

again, I square my

wolves. They're looking to me for guidance now

"is everyone accounted for?"

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 missing

for answers that refuse to

so vulnerable? So exposed? The questions

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