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?
to say something, not really caring what the Board thought of him at this point, but my father
of respect. Meanwhile, Sophia and Gabriel had lowered their gazes
I felt my face heat slightly under their scrutinizing gazes. These Alphas were some of the best
in particular, who stood at the front, caught
my palms were pressed into Alexander’s chest, then to where Alexander’s arms were tightly wrapped around
his face.
something almost familiar about him, but I couldn’t quite
certainly handsome, though-tall and slender but in a masculine way, with his dirty blond hair neatly combed back. He wore a midnight blue suit with a matching
testing it to see if I could pry his fingers away, but he just dug them deeper into my skin as if to silently warn me
Chapter
“I’m so glad you
his hand, and Alexander shook it.
must be Luna Ella.”
it. I felt Alexander’s arm tighten even
back, he gestured around us. “This
nodded toward Gabriel. “Not this banquet, no. Beta Gabriel planned it himself. I’m taking on less of
it because I knew the Board might look
now was to make Alexander look bad, force his
get the reaction I’d expected from
little surprised, but smiled. “It’s nice to see a pack with more progressive views. More Lunas these days are taking on administrative roles rather than party planning, which we believe to be a good thing.” He
Alpha,” one Alpha chimed in. “Truly, it’s the women in our society who
although I doubted it had so much to do with the progressive comments about women as it was relief that he wasn’t
six Alphas had drinks and hors d’oeuvres in their hands,
could hardly breathe-let alone slip away. Every time I opened my mouth to say something that might harm him, he would smoothly talk over me as
strangely familiar young Alpha kept
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