The sickened luna’s last chance
Chapter 7
Chapter 7
Ella POV
The sudden touch of Alexander’s hands on my back, exposed from the courageous dip of my dressline, made my skin feel
like it was on fire.
“Why would I do that, darling?” he laughed. “She keeps making these jokes lately, all because I forgot to rub her feet last night.”
Rub my feet?
I couldn’t decide if the laugh or the embrace or the imaginary foot-rubbing was more unsettling. All three of those things. were so out of character for him that it briefly made me wonder if he had been replaced with a lookalike in the past thirty seconds.
“You never rub my feet,” I hissed, pushing my palms into his chest. “You’re a liar.”
Alexander held fast and chuckled. “Women,” he joked, eliciting some laughs from the people around us. The only people who weren’t laughing were Sophia and Gabriel. My father, for appearances, managed a faint chuckle.
“Alexander, what are you talking about?” I whispered, suddenly turning angry. “And let me go-”
But then I saw the faint glimmer in his green eyes and movement over his shoulder, and I understood.
The Alpha Council Supervisory Board had arrived-six Alphas in expensive suits were moving through the crowd, which was parting around them like the sea. And they were headed straight for us.
Now I understood why Alexander was suddenly acting as if we were just a playful couple having a good-natured spat. Why he was lying about our intimate life like that.
He was playing up our “relationship” because the Board had just walked in.
The whole reason why Alexander had thrown this banquet tonight was to curry their favor for the upcoming election. And he couldn’t accomplish that if his perfect little wife was misbehaving, could he?
the Board thought of him at this point, but my father
Gabriel
at us. I felt my face heat slightly under their scrutinizing gazes. These Alphas were some of
at the
my palms were pressed into Alexander’s chest,
his face.
something almost familiar about him, but I couldn’t
in a masculine way, with his dirty blond hair neatly combed back. He wore a midnight blue suit with a matching tie and a pocket square
testing it to see if I could pry his fingers away, but he just dug them deeper into my skin as if
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glad you were able to
his hand, and
must be Luna Ella.”
the man took my hand and kissed it. I felt Alexander’s
gestured around us. “This is a lovely party. Did
no. Beta Gabriel planned it himself. I’m taking on less of a
true. But I also said it because I knew the Board might look down upon a pack in which
make Alexander look bad,
the reaction I’d expected
smiled. “It’s nice to see a pack with more progressive views. More Lunas these days are taking on
chimed in. “Truly, it’s the women
Alexander, who had stiffened, relaxed somewhat as well, although I doubted it had so much
Alphas had drinks and hors d’oeuvres in their hands, Alexander led them around the
alone slip away. Every time I opened my mouth to say something that might harm him, he would smoothly talk over
all the while, that strangely familiar young Alpha
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