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.

I didn’t plan. I

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second I pushed myself forward, the force slammed into me like a wall of ice, biting,

I fought it.

in the air so thick it felt like I was moving through solid stone. My breath came in sharp gasps, my pulse hammering against my ribs, but

was right there. A few feet away.

voice was

locking onto mine–and in that moment,

his lips moved and he

again. A

It wasn’t electricity. It was something else. Something ancient. It poured into the mist, into

The wind stopped.

The mist froze.

screams cut

And then–silence.

the entire world had taken

still clutching 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 the light still flickered between

Wide–eyed.

Breathless.

he had just

“Ava,” He whispered.

him, because my hand was still glowing.

faint but unmistakable, fading in

the lingering glow, the remnants of

mine, his breathing ragged, “You…You stopped

him, “That’s not possible.”

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the still–flickering glow

wind that had been howling just moments ago now eerily

Jonah was gone.

that had threatened to tear us apart–was silent. The mist, once writhing like a living thing, had settled, curling lazily around my ankles as if the storm had never

Grayson moved first.

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 still

the world tilting slightly, but his grip steadied me.

hoarse as I turned my hand

answer immediately. Instead, he looked around, his

gaze, my pulse quickening.

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

It felt normal.

I knew better than to trust appearances.

voice pulled me back., “Are you

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

had time to finish the sentence before

My voice.

going to leave

and I turned at the same time.

her lashes, her lips curling into a playful smile,

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