Stronger by Ang Chris

Chapter 111

Ella POV:

The world can change so instantly. Sometimes we’re so sure of where we’re heading and the goddess places her finger into our lives turning everything upside down.

I never would have assumed that night that Grayson defending me from that man would have brought us here. He had done his duty as my alpha and I was grateful I was ready to lay down my life for his wife in repayment and now here

we are.

The pack was cold after the lunas kidnapping. We had already been shocked by the events but we didn’t have her spirit to take us upward. She hadn’t been here long but she’d made an impact and was now our heart. Without her the Alpha was obsessive and calculating. He didn’t stop and smile for the children training and he didn’t joke with his council anymore. The elder Luna was not her usual sly self instead she was quite and and composed.

We should be prosperous at a time like this a strong alpha and a resilient Luna had given us an heir. We should be celebrating day and night.

Sometimes it was hard not to blame myself. To not ask if I should have just let it happen so none of this would have occurred. Another woman stolen all because I caught a Sigma’s eye.

And then there are other times when my heart catches in my throat and I swear I’d let it all happen again to be near him.

That only leaves me feeling more guilty.

After everything I had no right to fawn over a man far above me and after the pain I caused on his family. It doesn’t matter if he feels the same and it doesn’t matter that she would tell me it wasn’t my fault.

Even though I feel my whole body relax around him I can’t cross that line. It wasn’t my place. I had a duty to my pack as a warrior, I had a duty to my Luna to help bring her home and in her stead help watch over the heir. I would not cause anymore problems no matter what.

“G–good morning,” his voice hit my ear and I spun hitting my back firmly against the wall. “Sorry,” he held his hands up. “I didn’t, I shouldn’t have snuck up on you like that,”

I smiled softly at his bumbling nature I didn’t know how an heir to such a noble pack became this way around me but

I had to admit I was just as bad as he was.

“It’s–I’m, that’s okay,” I chuckled my arms folding behind my back and I swung on my tip toes.

“I saw you sparring with Elizebeth yesterday you are a skilled warrior,” he complimented me his cheeks flushing.

“Your sister is to thank for that I rarely ever got vested before the Luna came and after I hardly ever ended a match standing,” i shrugged as I reminded him of his sister his eyes saddened.

“She’s unstoppable, I’m sure she hadn’t just given birth she’d have snapped him in two,” his features darkened further

and I held myself back from reaching out for him.

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agreeing with him and attempting

tell me how kind you were when she first got here and I have to admit it made me

him, feeling my heart flip

called to him and I sank

never admit my feelings for him stood there talk and prideful as ever. She was a regal looking woman who commanded presence. I didn’t have the highest of options for her given her behavior towards my alpha but I gave the benefit of the doubt considering her daughter had been tormented her whole pregnancy

back and talked over training regimens with the alpha and I set off to do my rounds on the border pushing any thought of him out of

an acknowledgment as she followed

year that I had been asked along on the trip to Georgia

get to know Luna and now my position in the pack was that of a lead warrior.

a woman beyond reproach sought my

and look at any of the sensors to make

but my mind still fought its way behind us wondering if

of attack, surveillance, or encampment for

me, we weren’t friends, I was not of high rank, and she had no

on me.

the man she loved was a traitor to every belief she had. Some people still questioned her but they were those that didn’t know her enough, she would die for the pack. It must be a lonely life after

unspoken agreement between us like a small circle of women who

outer walls scanning and surveying for signs of weakness. I checked the scanners and replaced their data chips as we moved along. We found no issue along the

all by getting out there on

1. me.

mouth and she nodded. “She’d be strong enough to do that, sadly

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the former alpha involved it’s become far

never end,” I wrinkled my nose thinking of the mess that’s

me through the corners of her eyes. “I

not

“That I understand,”

Lunas abduction. She had been living with a spy for months and hadn’t noticed. I felt foolish and

wise to accept that and move on. The only one I see absolved of guilt is you. You did nothing to attract that scum and you put

either, the alpha and the Luna didn’t even

my heart blur reality, he hadn’t been himself since she’d gotten here. If I had paid attention I’d have turned him in myself,” she kept driving and

deceit

love, and it’s no ones fault falling prey to that.

the world but she also put us in each other’s worlds,

the thought out of my head daydreaming and fantasizing about things that will never happen won’t keep everyone safe. It won’t bring the Luna

eyes darted upwards towards the

car,”