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.”

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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.”

left, that meant- My eyes

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

to Mikayla when her mother dies and then comes back

dry. “That a miracle

clutching her mother’s hand when we got there. Grayson moved to Tessa without hesitation, removed the ring, and

chance to come back to life was nothing to

for this miracle ring to work its magic I didn’t want to hope on it, though. I gestured to a corner of the

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 her, but I was exactly

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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 there was a chance, a way my mother could have lived, I would have done anything to make it

“I killed my parents,”

The words echoed.

to save her, right? So it couldn’t have been. I didn’t ask because

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

million.

know if I should. I didn’t want

promised you steps forward,

1 nodded.

in the world, and I’ll give it to

act was too much I wanted him gone, and I had to make sure that this time, I wouldn’t fail. So

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

responsible for their deaths hadn’t been intentional, and I knew I had worked up different scenarios of how he had killed his parents in those

WILL

change the fact that he carried the

meant to cause.

because of what I felt for him, but at the same time.. I just

about 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 throat as 1 shot to my feet, instincts kicking in.

and terrified. She pushed herself of the chair and stumbled toward the bed, clutching Tessa’s pale hand. “Mom, wake up!

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