The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 15

Ella, Alexander, & Sophia

Ella

“I’m sorry, Ella.”

I blinked, stunned by Alexander’s sudden apology. He had never apologized before. Not for anything.

Something about the words softened something deep inside of me-or maybe it was just my exhaustion that led me to confess. I suddenly felt guilty for lying to him, or at least for bending the truth to suit my needs.

“Liam and I haven’t been having an affair,” I finally said, wiping my tears away with the back of my hand. “I made that up just to spite you.”

Alexander’s jaw clenched. “So you just let me believe that you were sleeping with another man.”

“Yes,” I admitted, lowering my gaze. “And I’m sorry for not being honest.”

“So the divorce-”

“I still want a divorce,” I said firmly. “That was never a lie. I still intend to go through with our contract just the way it’s written.”

Alexander didn’t reply to that. Instead, he simply asked, “Do you still want to go to the Spring Market with me?”

Alexander

My wolf became restless. Seeing our fated mate cry… It didn’t sit well with him. Or with me, for that matter. Even if Ella looked surprisingly beautiful when she cried, her blue eyes big and misty with tears, her lips just puffy enough to be kissable…

No, I thought, inwardly chiding my wolf. I was just feeling the pull of our mate bond because of her anguish, nothing more. I certainly didn’t want to kiss her. Or anything else, for that matter. I just wanted to make her feel better.

words to Ella, but the guilt was starting to gnaw at me. She looked

Sophia over her? Did I make her

it was clear now. Seeing the tears stream down her pale cheeks was like a slap to the face, and it suddenly made me

bottling it up for so long, and now she thought she wanted

still want to go to

if a tiny shred of me thought it might make it up to her, even if only a little. I didn’t expect her to say yes. Hell, I

nodded. “Yes. I want to go,” she said, staring

wolf relaxed

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always come and find me. After all, we are married-you are my Luna until the divorce

staring up at me with such surprise

really had made her feel like shit

to a hot bath after the day I’d had. That rogue’s blood was still all over me, caked into my hair and staining my leathers. And my leg was throbbing

out, “Actually, there

glancing at her over my

you been giving

had been expecting. I hesitated for a moment, mostly just surprised that she suddenly wanted to know. She had never asked in all the years we had been married. And shouldn’t she know already from her discussions with her

no reason for me to say no, so I gestured for her to follow me, and she did. I led her down the hall and into my office, where

whispered, glancing

money I had given her father? All this time, I assumed she knew at least the general amount. I wondered for a

way, I didn’t feel like thinking too much about it. I was exhausted and my leg was throbbing and the scent of dried blood was nauseating

the correct amount,”

back after the divorce,” she finally said, handing the receipt back to me. “If

she mean by “still alive?” Was she still going along with her “rare illness” story or was this some kind of hint that she intended to kill herself by the

Divorce.