The Alpha King's Contracted Luna by Nelson Claudia

Chapter 272

Chapter 272

-Ava’s POV-

Darkness.

Cold.

The ocean swallowed me whole, its icy fingers clawing at my skin, dragging me deeper into the abyss. The salt burned my throat, my lungs screamed, but no air came. The weight of the water pressed in from all sides, crushing, endless.

I kicked, thrashed, fought. But the surface was too far. My limbs were slow, heavy, the cold stealing the last of my strength.

I was drowning.

And all I could think of was everything I was about to lose.

I would never see my children. Never hold them in my arms, never hear their laughter.

I would never see Grayson again.

His eyes. His touch. The way he looked at me like I was his whole world.

I would never see Isabella. I would never see anyone ever again.

A fresh wave of panic surged through me, but my body was failing. My chest burned, my vision blurred. The fight in me was slipping away.

No. No, not like this.

I forced my arms to move, kicking weakly against the pull of the ocean, but the current was too strong. My lungs convulsed, desperate for air, and my lips parted against my will.

Saltwater rushed in.

Agony tore through my body as I choked. My mind screamed, but the ocean did not care. The ocean did not listen.

This was it.

This was how I was going to die.

I reached for my wolf.

Nothing.

I reached for something–the essence–anything–inside me that could help, that could fight, but there was only silence.

I was truly alone.

The realization settled deep in my chest, heavier than the water pressing in around me. My body knew before my It knew that this was the end.

The fight bled out of me.

My limbs stopped thrashing.

The panic faded.

A did.

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the water wasn’t the enemy. It was quiet

me, held me in its arms like

This was it.

closed my

something

not from lack of air. My skin tingled, a warmth blooming in my core, spreading, through my

moving, swirling–not to drag

for the first time,

The water obeyed.

wasn’t drowning me. It was

of destruction but something else entirely–something

but they didn’t

merged with the ocean and the

a surge of power,

Up.

I

anything natural.

saltwater. The air hit my lungs like fire, my entire body shaking as I struggled to stay afloat. My vision blurred, spots dancing in front of

howled. The ship loomed in the distance. My

I was alive.

I was breathing.

gulps of air,

I saw him.

body rigid. His mouth moved, but I couldn’t hear the words over the crashing waves.

through

No. Stay away.

water, but I was weak, my arms trembling, my

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he was coming down to finish

I choked out,

He didn’t stop.

away! I screamed it this time and it tore from

a shockwave burst outward from me, an invisible force cracked through the air and sent Dylan flying backward. His body hit the railing of the ship with a sickening theard before he crumpled onto the deck, motionless.

seemed to pause, the only sound the ragged gasps tearing from my lips. My heart thundered in my chest, my limbs still shaking from the

Move

the order, but my body wasn’t listening. Everything was screaming–my lungs, my muscles, my head pounding like a war drum. But I had to move. I had

forced my arms to drag through the water, my legs kicking weakly beneath me. The ship loomed above, the slick metal hull stretching high, impossible to climb. My fingers scraped against its cold surface before 1 turned my attention

He was

No, no, no.

going to get up. He was going to come down here and–No. I wouldn’t let

metal steps of the ship’s side ladder. My body trembled, my fingers barely able to hold

didn’t feel the

didn’t feel the cold.

I felt

breath came in ragged gasps, my fingers barely

my children and it was going to be at the end of

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