Another Chance for the Luna Queen by Aurora Starling

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Chapter 0276

Chapter 0276

"I don't think that," Alexander replied, his tone unnervingly calm. "But I need to get to work and handle this situation before it escalates. You're upset, but I don't have

me

"To what?" I cut him off, my voice rising. "To talk to me? To tell me the truth? Just how much are you hiding, Alexander, that you don't have time to confess?"

"This is ridiculous," he said sharply, his calm demeanor cracking as he turned away from me. Without another word, he answered his phone.

I stood there, shaking with rage, every nerve in my body screaming at me to lunge forward and knock the phone out of his hand. But I held back.

Instead, I spun on my heel and marched to the bedroom.

onto the bed, pressed my face into the

me. But it was a lie. I wanted to know everything about him, to unravel the mystery he carried, but deep down, I knew that would

wasn't real-not entirely. The distance between us

different. My life could be on the line, and whatever he was hiding from

anymore.

from the

tightly to my chest and

in a few hours," he

said weakly, my voice

for a moment as if he

turned and walked away. I held my breath, listening to the sound of his footsteps fading across the apartment. A moment

bed, my chest tight with frustration. I had to do something-I just

as if saying it aloud would

what was going

cold and impersonal, offering no clues to the man I'd married. Alexander's apartment was as

on a tall, slim bookshelf in one corner of the room. It was the only thing that seemed