Tangled
Chapter 195
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195 Ava: A Familiar Face
. "Ma'am, can you explain how you entered pack lands without detection? And how you made it all the way to the alpha lodge?"
There's suspicion thick in his voice, and I see Vanessa tense from the corner of my eye. Mrs. Elkins looks around at the hostile faces, bewilderment plain on her features. "Ava, dear, are you in some sort of trouble?"
Glancing at my guards, all on alert and intent on saving me even from a little old woman, I sigh.
Their questions are imminently reasonable, and I'm wondering the
same things. Not to mention-Selene's hiding under the bench is beyond suspicious.
I can't shake the feeling that I'm about to hear answers I'll regret having heard.
No matter how I look at this situation, for an old woman to have
accidentally stumbled onto me here, a thousand miles away, without knowing my true identity...
There's something more going on.
Straightening my shoulders, I take a deep breath, ready to side with my bodyguards against the sweetest woman in the world.
"No, Mrs. Elkins. But we are going to need some answers."
She hugs her parcel a
little closer to her chest, looking over each of my bodyguards in turn, before nodding to herself. Her faded eyes crinkle at the corners as she offers them a placating smile. "I didn't walk through your pack lands,
I never expected to add my former boss being held up by a flock of bodyguards, a solid thousand miles from Cedarwood, to my list of fucked up shit that happened today. O
So it takes a minute for me to process what I'm hearing.
"Mrs. Elkins?"
Selene flattens against the ground, her ears going back as she belly-crawls her way to my bench.
demeanor doesn't even register in my head, because- well, frankly, she's been
"Ava! My dear girl."
welcoming smile have me so intensely, terribly homesick for Cedarwood that I have to blink like a maniac to keep the tears at bay. "Mrs. Elkins, how did you get here? And o Vanessa follows behind as I push my way through the bodyguards, who refuse to let me get
boys. She's a friend
but they respond to her words anyway, letting
out how to wield whatever flimsy authority I have. Even Vanessa gets people to listen to her. Granted,
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the old woman, I can see that she's carrying a huge parcel, hugging it to
Are you
as she reaches for my face, as
"I'm fine."
her being here, in the flesh, a thousand miles from home. "How did you get here, Mrs. Elkins? I mean,
the sound weary and drawn out. "Oh, Ava, it's a story for the ages. But that can wait." Her eyes, sharp despite their age, sweep over me
gained weight. Even though I look skinnier. Must
concern. "And you're here of your own will? These people..." She glances warily at the stoic bodyguards flanking
I assure her quickly. "None of these people are
at the bodyguards, their impassive
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moment, her gaze unfocused.
small ziplock bag. "Here, Ava. I brought you some of
with a smile. "Thank you, Mrs. Elkins.
close around the bag, it's snatched out of
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question.
Luna, but we'll have to
disbelief coloring my tone. "Mrs. Elkins would never hurt me. She saved me in Cedarwood. She's a genuinely good person." Another guard steps forward, professional and blank-faced as
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addresses Mrs. Elkins't
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