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"

has been erased

16. 16.

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

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

rough with emotion. "There has to be something we're

leave my lips, I know it's futile. Whoever did this was meticulous, leaving no trace of

if it's not, we risk a war

for the streets to run crimson beneath our silver moon. A true war hasn't come

It's real.

ICCS Devery

already died, but for

my life revolves around her, Ava

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

Deep.

Slow.

will only lead to misstep. There's no

me for

even the wolves near us

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

nods, knowing how much this

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

time to wait around for the scraps any

1. us.

can't keep getting jerked

my eyes again, I

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

"is everyone accounted for?"

on full alert. I have two groups out looking for our missing wolves There's no warmth or solace in the intense heat radiating from the funeral mounds, made of hay and dried wood,

grasping for answers that

happen? How did we let ourselves become so vulnerable? So exposed? The questions gnaw

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