Tangled

Chapter 261

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261 Ava: Yanking At Her

It's almost like a presence saying hello.

Thinking of that little string, I tug back. Twice.

An answering jerk. One. Two. Three

The words I just spoke drift into my head: It's like the book is alive.

it crazy to talk into this void in my head, in the general direction I hope the book is in?

Sure. But at least no one can see or hear me doing it.

Hello? I call out, trying to

there?

Use the same mental channel I use to speak with Selene. Are you

Another tug on that string.

I really, really need you to come to where I am. It's safer here. Or something. How do you explain. to a book that the world has gone to shit and you want to keep it from being used to create further catastrophe?

Please.

Being polite never hurts.

This time, that string-y feeling yanks, and it feels like my heart is constricted, interfering in its ability to beat.

I can't breathe. Pain explodes in my chest, radiating outward like a supernova. My lungs burn, desperate for air that won't come. The world around me blurs, sounds fading into a high-pitched buzz that fills my

cars.

An eternity

my vision darken, reality slipping

it began, the pain recedes. The world snaps back into focus, colors sharpening and sounds returning. I gasp, drawing in a ragged breath that feels like

grips my shoulder, shaking me gently but insistently. I blink, trying to orient myself. We're still in the truck. Marcus is at the wheel, his knuckles white as he grips it

mirror.

as a croak. Swallowing hard, I

being squeezed in a vise, like something was trying to pull it right out of my chest. And that string, that connection to the

Ava Yanking At

a thrumming in my veins that's

over with a frown. "Your face went white as a sheet and your groaned like you were dying. I'm pretty sure you

seconds without air sends a shiver down my spine. "I

meet mine in the

me like Magister Orion said. And then..." I

that normal?" Vanessa asks, before shaking her head. "Stupid question. How

and so

Marcus's

be careful with this. Magic books that try to

"No, it wasn't malicious. Just desperate." I pause, surprised

again, and I

we can't risk you getting

the strange thrumming in my veins. It's like my

the book again. Too many weird things keep happening to me. I'd rather not

I have a sense of

desperately want to try

sends a pang through my

her head, a worried frown creasing her brow. "No, nothing yet. Vester should be able to reach me by

mere minutes had passed. The realization is chilling. How much

24

Yanking

away into that

glued to the road. "I felt a pack presence once," he admits. "But it was brief. Flectr before I could really grasp it." "It's just a matter

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