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.

eternity compressed into

vision darken, reality slipping

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

Her hand 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 tightly, eyes darting between the

mirror.

croak. Swallowing

happened? It felt like my heart was being squeezed in a vise, like something was trying to pull it right out of my

Yanking

a thrumming in my

"Your face went white as a sheet and your groaned

memory of those endless seconds without air sends a shiver down my spine. "I think I made contact with the book.

eyes meet mine in

reaching out to it, trying to call it to me like Magister Orion said. And then..." I trail off,

normal?" Vanessa asks, before shaking her

and so few

Marcus's

to yank your

something in me rebels against the idea. "No, it wasn't malicious. Just desperate." I pause, surprised by my own certainty. How can I be so sure about

inside of me tugs again, and I swear

"Either way, we can't risk you getting hurt. Maybe we should wait

my arms, trying to soothe the strange thrumming in my veins. It's like my body is vibrating from the inside

I try contacting the book again. Too many weird things keep happening to me. I'd

sense of self-preservation in me

I desperately want

thought of Lucas sends a

and Marcus. Hope flutters in my chest, fragile and desperate. Vanessa shakes her head, a worried frown creasing her brow. "No, nothing yet. Vester should be able to reach me by now. It's strange." "How long has it been since you could sense him?" Surprised, I peer out the window, but there's nothing to see in the

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

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away into that strange, mental-magical

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

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