Another Chance for the Luna Queen by Aurora Starling

Chapter 0121

Chapter 0121

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I didn’t know what David planned to do to Ella, but I knew wouldn’t have been good. He was obsessed with her power, her position. To him, Ella was just a pawn. And I had no doubt David wouldn’t hesitate to break his toys if it suited his twisted agenda.

David’s connections to the Rogues were relatively new, according to my sources. He must have thought manipulating Ella would be easy, and in his desperation after losing control of her, he began reaching out to less- than–reputable friends to help fix what he had screwed up.

But it clearly wasn’t working for him. He was too brash and arrogant to navigate the criminal underworld. If he kept pushing his luck, he was going to get himself killed messing with the wrong people.

It took a cold, calculating person to survive with one foot in civilized society and the other in the underworld. David lacked both the intelligence and the level–headedness to pull it off. That only made him more dangerous to Ella.

And then there was Amanda. She seemed to have an even darker side than David. She’d been laying low since the wedding, and I couldn’t blame her.

gone for good. My contacts were

had become important to me, and I would use every resource at my disposal to protect her from those

whether she realized it or not. There was something about her that

and suspicions that had always swirled around

made that persona

contract, and so that’s what I would do. The agreement

end after I became king. Until that moment, she was my top priority. Anyone who threatened her was a threat to me, and

cut through my thoughts. Ella’s eyes went wide and she rushed to retrieve

She had

father would like you to bring me home. He wants to

be there in an hour,” I said, loudly enough for the

back to the phone. I went into my room to get dressed and allow her some privacy to

knew I was setting a dangerous precedent, blurring the lines between the reality of our situation and the farce we had agreed to carry