The Alpha King's Contracted Luna by Nelson Claudia

Chapter 250

-Ava’s POV-

The moment my eyes snapped open, my hands flew to my stomach, instinct kicking in like a force of nature. As if cradling my belly could somehow protect the tiny lives growing inside me from whatever damage falling through an endless void might have done.

“They’re fine,” My own voice–her voice–assured me, “We didn’t actually fall. It just felt like we did.”

I let out a breath I didn’t realize I was holding, “Where are we?” I muttered, rubbing my arms against the unsettling chill in

the air.

“The In–Between.” She stated drily, like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

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I frowned at her tone and I opened my mouth to clap back at her for stating the obviou and I didn’t appreciate not knowing the clear path and having me dropped here without any warning. I barely got the first syllable out before something cut through the eerie stillness around us.

A long, bone–chilling howl and not from a werewolf.

I stopped moving but my other self didn’t. She was beside me in an instant, grabbing my arm and hauling me up the rest of the way, “Okay, time to move,” She said, eyes scanning the shifting landscape around us.

I swallowed hard, ears straining as another howl joined the first. Then another. And another.

“We need to find him and get the hell out of here,” She muttered.

“No argument there,” I shot back, glancing around at the never–ending fog and warped, shifting ground beneath us. “But how exactly are we supposed to do that?”

She gave me a look. “I don’t know. You’re highly connected to him. I was kind of banking on you instantly feeling him.”

I stared at her, my brain short–circuiting.

“You don’t have a clear plan?” I shouted, panic seeping into my voice as the howling grew impossibly loud, like it was coming from everywhere at once.

She turned to look at me, dead serious. “I have one right now.”

A pause.

“Run.”

My lungs burned as moved, my feet barely keeping up with the force yanking me forward. The ground beneath

coming from everywhere and nowhere all at

hell is that thing?!” I shouted, breathless,

My other self

trying to see if anything was actually chasing us. My eyes searched the fog, my heart pounding so hard it felt like it was trying to escape my chest. But there was nothing. No shadowy figures. No monster lurking just out of

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Just the fog.

And that sound.

hit me like a punch to the gur. The howling–it was the wind. A chill ran down my spine. Wind wasn’t supposed to sound like

alive, hungry, like it was searching for something

legs screaming for rest, but stopping wasn’t an option. The ground was changing beneath our feet, shifting like liquid one second, hard as stone the next. The mist curled around us, thick and suffocating.

ground tilted.

had time to react. One second, my feet were pounding against

stomach lurching. My other self let go of

No–sliding.

glass, and I was careening down it with no way to stop myself. My hands scrambled for something–anything–to grab onto, but

“Ava?!”

sounded

“AVA?!”

slow my descent. It didn’t work. If anything,

bones. It wasn’t just noise–it was pulling at me, trying to drag me with it

and just as suddenly. I hit the ground hard, pain

from my throat as I sucked in a breath, my entire body aching. My hands immediately flew to my belly, panic flooding me. My heart was hammering so hard it felt like it was rattling inside my

palms flat

felt wrong. No pain. No sharp cramps.

breath of relief then I

through the endless fog, “Ava?! Other self?!

Silence.

but I couldn’t see anything. I couldn’t even see the slope I had fallen from. It was just me all alone. It barely had time to form

Louder.

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everywhere, closing in.