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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in a slow circle, taking in the scene with growing frustration. The disturbed heaps continue to burn, casting an eerie glow across the clearing. My wolves move like shadows, their movements precise and focused as they search for any clue, any hint of who

no trail, no sign of the monsters responsible for

I order, my voice rough with emotion. "There has to

futile. Whoever did this was meticulous, leaving no

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

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,

It's real.

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already

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

else. It feels like we're all being led to one conclusion, like sheep

Deep.

Slow.

no more leeway for mistakes and second

wolves rely on me for their

think?" Kellan asks, his voice so soft not even the wolves near us would be able to

to talk to Ava. Connect with her Sister Miriam. The connection I share with my beta

knowing how much this decision galls

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

isn't a time to wait around for the scraps

1. us.

keep getting jerked

again, I square

to me for guidance now more than ever

"is everyone accounted for?"

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

is reeling, grasping for answers that refuse to

vulnerable? So exposed? The questions gnaw at me,

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