Tangled

Chapter 265

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It isn't until we're walking that I realize still I don't hear Selene in my head. Her presence hasn't filled its

space.

I was so focused on Lucas that I forgot my own damn wolf. That's terrifying, in a way.

"Didn't you say Selene's here?"

"She was." He glances at me in the dim moonlight. "She's been coming and going a lot. Can't you talk to her?" He appears confused; I guess no one's

specifically told him that Selene and I can't contact each other over long distances.

"No."

"Oh." He's quiet as he processes that. "So you just... can't talk to your wolf?"

I shrug. "She's her own person. I guess it's because she isn't in my body."

Kellan makes an odd sort of noise in his throat. I glance at him in concern. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine," he says, shaking his head. "Your bond

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with Selene is just strange. Communication isn't equal among wolves-some can have full conversations, some don't-but you're another level."

Ah. Yeah, it is weird. It's become such a normal part of my life, though. "Yeah." To me, it's strange to think

someone has a wolf and can't talk to them.

"How did you know to come here if you don't speak

with Selene?" Kellan asks.

through my mind. I open my

earlier.

might have

shut. We don't know who it is or if they're still here in this compound. Every word we

later," I say instead, putting heavy emphasis on the last

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eyebrows raise slightly, but then understanding dawns on his face. He faces

tugging at the corner of

"Smart idea."

races, cataloging every interaction, every face I've seen since

the

close to Lucas is working against

My stomach churns.

***

to a simple building. It's a long building with blacked out windows,

step inside. It's like walking into another world-sterile, bright, and utterly unlike the unassuming

It's a modern hospital.

and

trying to adjust to the sudden

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doors, all closed. The familiar smell of

faint shadowy outline of people as they walk past. Even this late at night, it's good to know there are people

this a real hospital?" I ask Kellan in a

for a long time." He taps at my shoulder, nudging me to follow him to the front

woman in crisp blue scrubs sits, her fingers flying over a keyboard. She looks up as

Kellan, her voice syrupy sweet. "Alpha is sleeping at the

settles on my lower back, guiding me forward.

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vanishes, replaced by a cool professionalism that borders on frigid. "I see," she says, her tone clipped. "I'm afraid

Lucas is so close and yet still out of reach. I want to scream, to demand entry, to use whatever authority being his mate grants me,

would be unethical. Rude.

it sounds pretty

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