Another Chance for the Luna Queen by Aurora Starling

Chapter 0353

Ella POV

Something about Diana was off.

Every time I had interacted with her before, she had maintained a pretense of politeness, a faint affection, as if she at least wanted me to believe she liked me- that she had my best interests at heart.

But now, as she looked at me, that facade was gone. She wasn't even pretending anymore.

I wouldn't call it hatred that I saw in her eyes. It was something colder, more dismissive. She was looking at me the way one might look at an insect-something insignificant, beneath her, an annoyance she was tired of dealing with.

I was no longer an obstacle to be carefully stepped around. I was simply in her way.

"You know, Ella," she said thoughtfully, tilting her head, "from the moment I found out you and Alexander had started dating, I had the strangest feeling that it was wrong

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I crossed my arms. "What do you mean?" I asked skeptically.

She let out a soft sigh, as if she were truly lamenting the situation. "I often wondered what kind of woman Alexander might be fated to, and you just don't fit

the bill. He's intelligent, charming, and strong. You're... well..."

off deliberately, giving me a pitying look, as if waiting for me to

I didn't.

as a fake, sorrowful

"I suppose this kind of thing can happen when a couple chooses to marry for

held her gaze, unflinching. "We

split second before her eyes narrowed.

"We didn't know when we got married, that's

wide, her mouth

I smiled.

my wolf or that Alexander and I were fated, but either way-her

said in a low, tense

realized, we were ecstatic. We had felt something drawing us together all along, of

darkened. "How could you

in her eyes made me instinctively take a step back. "It was only

herself, her fury vanishing in an instant,

smooth, unreadable expression.

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That's incredible."

didn't dare take my

to believe that Diana could be working

acting now-it was clear she was capable of