The Alpha King's Contracted Luna by Nelson Claudia

Chapter 250

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.”

forward, and we ran. My lungs burned as moved, my feet barely keeping up with the force yanking me

only got louder, coming from everywhere and nowhere all at

shouted, breathless, my

other self yelled back, which–frankly–was

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

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Just the fog.

And that sound.

gur. The howling–it was

for something for someone and it

like liquid one second, hard as stone the next. The mist curled around us, thick

the ground tilted.

barely had time to react. One second, my feet were pounding against the unstable surface. The next, the ground beneath

out a sharp scream as I lost my footing, my stomach lurching. My other self let go

No–sliding.

it with no way to stop myself. My hands scrambled for

“Ava?!”

sounded distant already.

“AVA?!”

my body to try and slow my

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

hard, pain jolting through my body as I tumbled forward, rolling until

hands immediately flew to my belly, panic flooding me. My heart was hammering so hard it felt like it was rattling inside my ribcage.

palms flat against my stomach, focusing–listening.

pain.

slow, shaky breath of relief then I remembered

up quickly, my voice echoing through the endless fog,

Silence.

turned, scanning the mist, but I couldn’t see anything. I couldn’t even see the slope I had fallen from. It was just

Louder.

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was everywhere, closing in.

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