The Alpha King's Contracted Luna by Nelson Claudia

Chapter 224

Chapter 224

Chapter 224

-Grayson’s POV.

I didn’t move.

I didn’t speak.

I just watched.

The moment the word sister left Crystal’s mouth, I knew nothing would be the same. The air in the room shifted, charged with something raw, something electric. Ava clung to me, her grip like a vice, but I didn’t comfort her. I didn’t whisper

reassurances.

Because this wasn’t a moment for comfort. This was a reckoning

I saw it in the way Ava’s body tensed, in the way her breath hitched like she had been struck. The realization crashed into her, one revelation after another, like waves dragging her under with no chance to breathe.

And I let her drown.

Not out of cruelty. Not because I didn’t care. But because she needed this. She needed to feel every ounce of it, to understand exactly what kind of game was being played around her.

Crystal was enjoying this. I could see it in her eyes–the sharp gleam of amusement, the way she performed for an audience, dangling the truth in front of Ava like bait.

Damien was worse.

He barely had to lift a finger, and yet, he controlled the entire room. Every shift of his expression, every calculated chuckle, every glance toward Ava was like a string being pulled in a game only he knew the rules to.

I hated him for it.

Hated the way he spoke to her, like she was some fragile thing beneath his control. Hated the way he indulged Crystal’s venom, the way he encouraged it.

And still, I waited.

Because right now, I wasn’t the one in the line of fire. Right now, I was just an observer, a ghost at the edge of their war.

But then I felt when the truth became too much for her to bear so I finally acted, pulling her back. Away from Damien. Away from Crystal. Away from the nightmare they had dragged her into.

But Damien-

Damien was waiting for that.

I saw the flicker of satisfaction in his eyes the second I stepped into focus, the way his smirk curled just a little wider then the arrows revealed themselves like a trigger at his words and then they came right at her.

I didn’t hesitate.

The second the arrows shot toward her, my body moved before my mind could even process it. My arm wrapped around Ava, pulling her against me, shielding her as the sharp projectiles sliced through the air.

Pain seared through my shoulder, hot and immediate. One of the arrows had grazed me, a shallow wound, but it didn’t

matter.

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Ava mattered.

and I could feel her trembling against me, her fingers

ordered, my voice firm but low, meant only for her.

pressed the device strapped beneath my sleeve the moment Crystal opened her

the room erupted

men who emerged like he had been two steps ahead and had expected this sprang into action, and within seconds, the tense

through the air, deafening, a violent symphony of

I didn’t flinch.

A sharp sting, the warmth of blood seeping through my shirt, but I

my only

as I moved with precision, blocking her from

whisper,

assured her, my

scanned for Damien and caught only a glimpse of him before he slipped through the fray, a smirk on his lips, that infuriating, calculated gleam in his gaze. He’d

hissed under

to be

nearest exit. My men

her breathing

her, my grip on her unrelenting.

were almost there. I could see the doorway, an open

Then-

A gunshot.

Loud. Too close.

out,

heart stopped.

time to see one of Damien’s men aiming right at

Instinct took over.

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he could take another shot. He went down, but

Another hit.

my teeth, swallowing

go of

Didn’t stop moving.

but fight to get her out of there.

through the doors and into cold night air,

at the edges, my breaths coming

had her. I had her, and I wasn’t

her wide eyes taking in the blood soaking through my jacket, her hands reaching up like she

She breathed, her voice laced with panic.

lie,

whether to reach for me or push me

dropped, her body tensed, and she

real distance between us, my knees

my body refused to cooperate. My breath hitched as I swayed, and

much and we both went down.

She barely had time to

my clothes, her gaze zeroing in on the wounds. I saw it the moment realization dawned in her expression–the

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