Tangled in Moonlight: Unshifted (Ava and Lucas)

Chapter 260

Chapter 260 Ava: Call It

"I know." Nibbling the side of my finger, my brows pull together. Why would he tell me to keep it safe, knowing it might be too dangerous?

What were the words he used again? They seemed significant.

"Ava, I need you to tell me you're not going to the Blackwood territory."

Jerking my head up, I blink at Vanessa's worried stare. "I'm not going. I'm just trying to think."

My brain's dead set on remembering what Magister Orion said.

What was it?

Call my book?

Yeah, that's it.

"The book is useless to anyone even if they find it," Marcus says, his words soft. Is he trying to comfort me? "Don't worry, Ava. It'll be a paperweight. Or, if we're lucky, they'll be allergic. Like Selene."

He is trying to comfort me.

How sweet.

"That's if we assume they don't know how to open it. The knowledge has been lost to us, but there are Fae involved now, remember?"

Marcus sighs. "Life was easier without this magic shit," he mutters, almost too soft for me to hear.

But I do.

My lips quirk. I agree with him wholeheartedly.

"Magister Orion said to call the book to me," I say, looking to Vanessa instead. Sometimes it helps to talk out my thought process. "He wouldn't have said it like that if I were to go pick it up, right?"

Her eyes squint as she thinks it through. "That sounds right. But what does it mean? Can you move it from place to place with your magic?"

My nose itches, and I rub at it in frustration. "I think that's exactly what he means, but I have no idea how to implement it." A long sigh, filled with regrets and lack of time. Time is always in short supply. "I wish Magister Orion had taught me something like that before everything happened."

small smile. "If wishes were fishes, we'd all

for a moment, the unexpected phrase catching me off guard. Then, despite the gravity of our situation, a laugh bubbles up from

such a small thing can bring back memories of a simpler time, before

used to say that all the time," Vanessa says, her eyes softening with the memory. "She had a saying for

as his eyes remain glued to the road ahead. "As much as I appreciate

full of potholes, making it even harder to concentrate. "We spent most of our time on basic control exercises." Also known as the thing that would keep me from kabooming everyone within radius if I didn't get training. "I can light

much," Vanessa chimes in with a

recall anything that might be useful. "He did mention something about intent being crucial in magic.

face me. There are no seatbelts. Well, there were once upon a time—they were all cut out at some point

sense. Magic seems to be

latching onto the idea. "If I lose concentration,

skepticism. Probably because it leaks out in his voice. "So

foolish. "Maybe?

seat to whisper, "He just doesn't have the imagination to comprehend

can hear you,

to," she chides. "Don't make her

rest of his words.

I close my eyes and

of cigarette smoke lingers in

and the ornate silver clasps, tarnished by age.

That's what I need

take a deep breath, trying to center myself. The truck hits another

Focus, Ava. Focus.

their

need to

concentration. "Are you

opening my eyes. "I'm trying

she says softly. "We'll

I picture the book again, trying to will it into existence. Come on,

I open my

in

bucket on wheels, and

call it to me, so it must be possible; I

massive undertaking for a new

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