The Alpha King's Contracted Luna by Nelson Claudia

Chapter 91

-Ava’s POV-

There were so many circumstanc them

in life that I hated, most especially the kind that we couldn’t control–this was one of

I knew Tessa was going to die. I had known the moment I practically ran into the hospital after Grayson dropped me off.

I hated that I was going to have to tell Mikayla that her mother was gone. I didn’t have the best relationship with my own mother, but I knew I would be devastated if I knew that I could never see her again.

With a sigh, I closed my eyes, placing a hand on Tessa’s pale head. “I know she’s human, but please, please, give us a miracle.

Please.”

be

My eyes moved to the machine, and I shook my head. I needed to find Mikayla. I knew getting attached wasn’t supposed to part of the job, but I couldn’t help it. Surprisingly, she was with Grayson when I found her, crying. I was just about to ask him why she was when, as soon as Mikayla rushed off, he spoke first

“There’s a way to save her.”

hark “What?*

I blinked, taken aback. “What?”

“She’s going to die, but there’s a way she doesn’t have to stay dead. She just has to put this on.” He raised his hand, showing me a ring I had vaguely noticed before, one that he never took off. I always thought it was a family crest or something

“I don’t understand. What does a ring have to do with this?”

“I had Maria make it for me. It was a dangerous spell, and it can only be used once, but it grants me three chances to come back to life.”

What?

But he wasn’t finished. “I have one chance left. I don’t know if it automatically resets on someone else’s finger, but that doesn’t matter. There’s a chance left, and if she puts it on, she’ll come back from the dead.”

one chance left, that meant- My eyes widened. “Oh my goddess. You’ve died twice?

tell you about it after we get the ring on

“But how do we explain what’s happening to Mikayla when her mother dies and then

dry. “That

we didn’t need to tell Mikayla anything because she was asleep, clutching her mother’s hand when we got there.

up a chance to come back to

wait for this miracle ring to work its magic I didn’t want to hope on it, though. I gestured to a corner of the hospital ward, and he followed suit. When we were both seated, I finally

I loved die knowing that there was nothing I could do about it. And I might not

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of the door, watching helplessly as all my efforts to get my mother out of the fire failed. A fire I had started. I don’t know why it bothered me. I don’t care, but if

“I killed my parents,”

The words echoed.

have been. I didn’t ask because I didn’t know how much of his walls he was willing to bring down, and

“Are you not going to ask me why I started the fire? Your eyes are asking a

million.

I

promised you steps forward,

1 nodded.

in the world,

just wanted him gone, so I took a silver blade and drove it into his chest while he slept. Unfortunately for me?” He scoffed. “He survived, and the price I paid for that act was too much I wanted him gone, and I had to make sure that this time, I wouldn’t fail. So I had Maria do a spell to seal the entire house so people could enter but they couldn’t leave. Because of my father’s condition and his pride, he drove all wolves away

placing my hand on top of his, silently telling him that he didn’t have

I had worked up different scenarios of how he had killed his parents in those five days he disappeared. It always came down to cold–blooded murder because of the way

WILL

with his father. But that didn’t change the fact that he

meant to cause.

him, but at the same time.. I just couldn’t bring myself to judge

him that it wasn’t his fault when the monitor in the ward suddenly began to emit a shrill, continuous tone, the flatline unmistakable. My heart leapt into my throat as 1 shot to my feet, instincts kicking in. Across the room. Mikayla’s eyes snapped open, wide

terrified. She pushed herself of the chair and stumbled toward the bed, clutching Tessa’s pale hand.

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