The Alpha King's Contracted Luna by Nelson Claudia

Chapter 215

-Grayson’s POV-

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“Are you going to say something?”

“Grayson?”

“Can you hear me?”

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The voice felt distant, muffled, like they were reaching me from the other side of a thick glass wall. I was aware of the world still moving around me, of people breathing, speaking, living–but I had gone completely still.

I wasn’t even sure if I had been breathing.

Pregnant. She was pregnant.

With my child.

The weight of the realization slammed into me like a train, knocking the air straight out of my lungs. A whole new human being existed–because of me. Because of us.

I had kicked her out when she was carrying my child.

The thought made my stomach churn, a tight, twisting sensation spreading through my chest.

How long had she known?

“Grayson?”

My gaze snapped up, and my vision finally registered Elaine’s face. She was watching me carefully, a hesitant expression settling over her features.

She let out an apologetic sigh, “I didn’t know you didn’t know. I just thought… I mean, since it’s been three months now- that’s right before things went wrong between you two–I just figured…” She hesitated, “That you knew.”

But I didn’t know.

I wouldn’t have even thought-

“I don’t want to have children.”

The words rang in my head, sharp and clear, a memory from months ago. I had meant it. Or at least, I had thought I had

meant it.

that certainty was slipping through my fingers like sand, impossible to hold onto. She hadn’t told me because she didn’t think

Did I?

I want a

child?

pounded as a dozen

mine forever. A helpless little being that would depend on me, look up to me,

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need me.

be that person and not screw it up like my father had done to me?

deserve to

the storm in my head, “Have you thought about what you’re going to say to

had been

to her?

What was I going

I say?

I don’t

to think, what to feel, what the hell I was even

me for a long moment before she spoke again, softer this time, “Why?”

through my hair. “Because I told her I

still feel

but nothing

Did I?

a child into this world, never

things were with your father,” Elaine finished

a moment, neither of us spoke. I swallowed hard. “I don’t know how to be

don’t have to,” She

no preparing for this. No trial run. No undoing it. This wasn’t just some

And so did the reality of what I had done.

had abandoned Ava when she needed me most and now, I didn’t

alone sent a sharp, unfamiliar ache through my chest.

down it felt like

child, too? Did I care if I

thoughts revolved around as the plane touched down in Italy.

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it. I couldn’t think straight. Every time I tried, it was like my thoughts

a team of well–dressed attendants immediately approached. Their eyes were sharp, practiced in their professionalism, and they greeted me with the