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.

far from my estate,” he said quietly, his voice steady, but distant. “I recognize the woods.

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 a thousand storms, but I couldn’t seem to grasp anything.

seeing a ghost, their expressions wide–eyed, mouths hanging open in shock. I

Two months. How?

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question, I felt melf being lowered onto something soft. My borly

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

keep my

at me 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 firth, as though he

alone in the room. Stunned. Confused. I stared at the door long after he left, the words swirling in my head.

didn’t understand? We had only been in this place a day–two days, tops. So how

Isabella’s voice, “I’m going in because I need to talk to my best friends that disappeared with you for two

into the room, her eyes

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voice trembling. “You’re actually here, Lilian.” She looked like she’d

away but I couldn’t bring myself to speak. I didn’t know how just stared at her, my mind racing, searching for something–anything–that could

didn’t even call. I mean, if you wanted to get away from everything, I’m your best friend–I

stave off the oncoming headache. “Bels, you don’t understand. I wasn’t gone for two months. I was gone for a night, maybe two days at most. Time… it passed differently there. I don’t even know how we ended

sat down, her brow furrowed. “Where

you

end up?”

in this… place. It felt different. The trees seemed alive, like they were closing in on us. Then we were attacked by something–it looked like a wolf, but it wasn’t–and I jumped in front of Grayson. The next thing I knew, we were back here. Two days, Bels. At most.” I tugged at my hair, feeling like I was losing my mind. “I couldn’t have been gone

she said firmly. “And you and Grayson have been making headlines. ‘Billionaire and his wife vanish into 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

the hunters. They were torn apart, scattered like… like a massacre. 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

wrong. He brought Ricardo along- you know, the Alpha from Italy who was supposed to be dead–and when

name. “Ricardo? I can’t remember