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.”

that meant- My eyes widened. “Oh my goddess. You’ve

tell you about it after we get the ring on Tessa’s finger.

“But how do we explain what’s happening to Mikayla when

dry. “That a

we didn’t need to tell Mikayla anything because she was asleep, clutching her mother’s hand when we got there. Grayson moved to Tessa without hesitation, removed the ring, and slid

up a chance to

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 asked, “Why?” But I lowered my voice so that didn’t wake

low. “She said I didn’t know how it felt to watch someone I loved die knowing that there was nothing I could do about it. And I might not know

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all my efforts to get my mother out of the fire failed. A fire I had started. I don’t know why it

“I killed my parents,”

The words echoed.

didn’t ask because I didn’t know how much of his walls he was willing

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

million.

know if I should. I didn’t want to end up pushing you

promised you steps forward,

1 nodded.

anything in the world, and

that he was sick, that there was a possibility he was slowly going insane, but it had been that way long before he started having episodes, And one day, it got too much I 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 from the main house, so it wasn’t hard to get him alone. But then…” He stopped talking for a

out, placing my hand on top of his, silently telling him

I knew 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

WILL

that had almost happened with his father. But that didn’t change

meant to cause.

was being biased because of what I felt for him, but at the

to tell 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

into a scream, raw and terrified. She pushed herself of the chair and stumbled toward the bed, clutching Tessa’s pale

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