Chapter 199

Aria’s POV Four days had passed already. It had been four days of running around, gathering ingredients, making calls, bargaining with Hazel’s shady dealer, and watching the barrier around Knox weaken more and more with each passing hour. Now we had less than an hour left before the full moon reached its peak, and everything was falling apart. I stood in the ritual space we had set up in the pack’s training grounds. The area was large enough to contain the spell and far enough from the main pack house that if things went wrong, fewer people would get hurt. Mama Felz was barking orders at everyone, her voice was sharp enough to cut through the noise. “Where the fuck is the phoenix ash? Someone tell me we have the phoenix ash!” “Got it!” Shawn called back, holding up a small vial. “Good. Set it with the other shit over there.” Mama Felz pointed to a stone altar we had constructed. The other ingredients were laid out in precise arrangements, the moonstone powder, silver root, wolfsbane ex