Chapter 252

Chapter 252

-Ava’s POV-

The plan had been working.

Right up until the moment it wasn’t.

Jonah was screaming.

The wind howled around us, a monstrous, deafening force, ripping at the mist, swirling like a living thing. It had him. It had him. I could see it–his body twisting, contorting, his fingers clawing at the ground as he tried to resist, his mouth stretched open in a soundless shriek as the invisible force dragged him inch by inch toward the abyss.

For the first time, he was the one fighting. He was the one losing.

And then–I lost sight of Grayson.

It happened so fast I barely processed it. One second he was there, his body tensed, his gaze locked onto Jonah, his stance ready to push at the exact right moment. The next–gone.

Swallowed by the chaos.

The wind shrieked louder, a sound so piercing it split through my skull. My hair whipped around my face, the air thick and electric, the mist curling in tendrils, distorting everything. My pulse pounded in my ears, my breath ragged and uneven.

“Grayson?!” My voice barely carried over the noise.

I spun, my vision blurred by the swirling mist. I couldn’t see him. I couldn’t see him.

No. No, no, no-

My heart slammed against my ribs, a deep, primal panic rising inside me. This wasn’t supposed to happen. We had planned for this. We had calculated this. We were supposed to use Jonah’s panic against him, let the wind take him, and ride the force back to the living realm.

But the wind–it was shifting.

It was changing its mind.

I felt it before I saw it–Grayson’s struggle.

A ripple in the mist, a break in the swirling gray, and then–there.

Him.

His body was being dragged.

No–not him.

The wind was taking him too.

His feet skidded against the ground, his muscles tensed, fighting against the pull, but it was stronger. It was winning.

And suddenly, nothing else mattered.

Jonah was screaming. The wind was wailing. The world around me was chaos. But all I could see was him–Grayson–being ripped away from me.

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Not again.

didn’t plan.

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force slammed into me like a wall of ice, biting, tearing,

I fought it.

so thick it felt like I was moving through solid stone. My breath came in sharp gasps, my pulse

right there. A few

My voice was

gray eyes locking onto mine–and in

moved and he said, “Go.”

way he hell I was losing him again. A scream ripped from my throat as I lunged. The second my fingers brushed his

an instant. It wasn’t fire. It wasn’t electricity. It was something else. Something ancient. It poured into

The wind stopped.

The mist froze.

cut off.

And then–silence.

as if the entire world had

Grayson’s wrist, my own body shaking, my lungs burning, my vision a haze of swirling gold. My pulse was erratic, my skin tingling where

Wide–eyed.

Breathless.

he had just seen something

“Ava,” He whispered.

I barely heard him, because

unmistakable, fading in and out like a dying ember.

breath hitched, my fingers trembling as I looked down at the lingering glow, the remnants

his breathing ragged, “You…You

at him,

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over the still–flickering

my head, scanning the mist, the wind that had been howling just moments ago

Jonah was gone.

mist, once writhing like a living thing, had settled, curling lazily around my ankles as if the storm

Grayson moved first.

sharply, a sound of disbelief, before rising to his feet in one fluid motion. His grip on my wrist tightened just slightly, grounding me as my mind struggled to catch up. I was

his grip steadied me. His gaze locked onto my

this?” I asked, my voice hoarse as I turned my hand

answer immediately. Instead, he looked around,

gaze,

The air no longer felt heavy with something ancient and restless. There were no

It felt normal.

better than to trust appearances.

me back., “Are you

true that was. “Why is my hand still tingling?” I flexed my finger,. “And

had time to finish the sentence

My voice.

you going to leave without saying goodbye?”

at the same

few feet away, and batted her lashes, her

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