The Alpha King's Contracted Luna by Nelson Claudia

Chapter 154

Two months,

roat. My heart hammered, each beat sounding too loud in be possible? I tried to move, but the ground beneath me

The world seemed to halt around me, my breath caught in my my ears. Two months? I couldn’t make sense of it. How could th felt like it was slipping, shifting, like I was losing my grip on everything.

The air was thick with confusion, laced with fear, but also some ing darker–something that I couldn’t place, but I knew it was there. My mind scrambled, struggling to piece it together.

Grayson stood still beside me, not saying anything at first, his expression unreadable. I could feel his presence, the tension radiating off him. And then, finally, he spoke, his voice filled with authority but it felt forced.

Like he wanted. No needed to immediately understand what the hell had happened so he could be on top of it.

“We need to get you back to the estate.”

I blinked, trying to process, still reeling from Isabella’s words so his words barely registering as I looked back at her, “Two months? I stuttered, my voice cracking with disbelief. “What do you–what do you mean? How? How could it be two months? I was-“I broke off, shaking my head as if I could shake the fog out of my brain.

The confusion was too much.

Isabella opened her mouth to speak, still staring at me like she couldn’t believe I was here but before she could, Grayson lifted me, sweeping me off my feet, and in that moment, I didn’t have the strength to fight it. I didn’t understand what was going on, but I knew I needed to trust him.

Trust why he was being so calm when we both just found out that we had disappeared for two months.

He carried me bridal style, moving past the men who stood silently in his path, their heads bowed as we passed. I didn’t speak. I couldn’t. My mind was still clouded, swirling with a hundred questions that I couldn’t even begin to form into coherent thoughts.

“Grayson,” I whispered, barely audible, as I buried my face against his chest, the words slipping out before I could stop them. “Two months… we… How?”

He didn’t answer. His body was stiff, his movements deliberate, and though I didn’t know if it was from the shock I was feeling or something else.

“Where are we going?” I managed to get the question out through the fog in my mind. The words felt heavy, as if I had to force them through the confusion that clouded me.

voice steady, but distant. “I recognize the woods. We’ll

burying my face further into his chest, trying to process everything, but nothing made sense. How could two months have passed?My thoughts tangled, every question racing through my mind like

I noticed was the silence. Everyone we passed stared at us like they were seeing a ghost, their expressions wide–eyed, mouths hanging open in shock. I could feel the weight of their gaze, but Grayson didn’t slow down. He didn’t even look at them. His stride

Two months. How?

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even process the answer to that question, I felt melf

change before my mind could keep up, and I real ed that we were in a room. Grayson’s room. He was

able to keep my voice

at first, but when he did, his gaze softened. Then, without a word, he leaned down and pressed a soft kiss to my forehead. “Go to bed. We’ll talk tomorrow,” he said, voice gentle but

just like that, he turned and walked out, leaving me alone in the room. Stunned. Confused. I stared at the door long after he left, the

everything that had happened? After eveything I didn’t understand? We had only been in this place a day–two days, tops.

heard Isabella’s voice, “I’m going in because I need to talk to my

open, and she stepped into the room, her eyes wide

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here, Lilian.” She looked like she’d seen a

Grayson glare at her from behind before turning and walking away but I couldn’t bring myself to speak. I didn’t know

you just disappear for two months and not tell me where you were going? You didn’t even call. I mean, if you wanted to get away from everything, I’m your best

to stave off the oncoming headache. “Bels, you don’t understand. I wasn’t gone for two months. I was gone for

walked toward the bed and sat

you

end up?”

like they were closing in on us. Then we

thin air.‘ That’s what people are calling it because that’s exactly what happened. After you shifted and ran, I went after you, but I lost your trail. Then Eliza told me she saw Grayson leave after you, and neither of you came back the next morning. So I went into the woods looking for you.”

But my wolf couldn’t catch your scent or Grayson’s. I called Liam, but he brushed it off, said Grayson probably took you to another country. Then Elaine grabbed the phone

called Rickon. I had this feeling that something was wrong. He brought Ricardo along- you know, the Alpha from Italy who was supposed to be dead–and when a week passed without any

one name. “Ricardo? I can’t remember his last name