Chapter 171

Aria’s POV

I gestured at her. “That’s Jade.”

Knox lifted an eyebrow. “What are you doing here?”

But Jade waved her hand dismissively. “Don’t worry, wolf king. I’m here on important business.”

Then Knox was gone.

One moment he was standing beside me, and the next, he simply vanished. I reached for him, but there was nothing. Just me and Jade in this strange realm.

“What’s going on?” I asked, looking around desperately. “Where did Knox go?”

Jade shrugged with an unreadable expression on her face. “Don’t know. This is your mind, not mine. He’s probably going back to his body. That’s what matters.”

I turned to face her fully, and something in her eyes made my stomach drop. There was a weight i