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?

mouth to say something, not really caring what the Board thought of him at this point, but my father

bowing his head slightly out of respect. Meanwhile, Sophia and Gabriel had lowered their gazes

I felt my face heat slightly under their scrutinizing gazes. These

one man in particular, who stood at the front, caught

were

his face.

almost familiar about him, but I couldn’t quite place my finger on

He wore a midnight blue suit with a matching tie and a pocket square with a

touched his hand, testing it to see if I could pry his fingers away, but

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anything. “I’m so glad you

front extended his hand, and Alexander shook it. He

must be Luna Ella.”

and kissed it. I felt

back, he gestured around us. “This is

toward Gabriel. “Not this banquet, no. Beta Gabriel planned it himself. I’m taking on less of a

I also said it because I knew the Board might look down upon a pack in which the

now was to make Alexander look bad, force

I didn’t get the reaction I’d

a 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

Alpha,” one Alpha chimed in. “Truly, it’s the women in

although I doubted it had so much to

d’oeuvres in their hands, Alexander led

I opened my mouth to say something that

that strangely familiar young Alpha kept staring

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