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

16. 16.

burn, casting an eerie glow across the

there's nothing. No scent, no trail, no sign of the monsters responsible for this atrocity. It's

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

leave my lips, I know it's futile.

it's not, we risk a war

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.

ICCS Devery

already died,

as my life revolves around her, Ava

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

Deep.

Slow.

lead to misstep. There's no more leeway for

many wolves rely on me for their safety,

not even the wolves near us would be able

Connect with her Sister Miriam. The connection I share with my beta is tight, so no others can interfere or listen

much this decision

of connection with those bloodsucking

time to wait around for the scraps any

1. us.

can't keep

my eyes again, I square

now more than

"is everyone accounted for?"

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 warmth or solace in the intense heat radiating from the

for answers that refuse

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

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