Chapter 27

Ella

Yesterday’s kiss may have momentarily distracted the press from the contract scandal, but that didn’t mean I wanted to spend more time wER A than absolutely necessary.

Especially not after last night.

But Alexander was right; the press would be watching us like hawks over the coming days, and we had to at least make an attempt to look like the 1300). loving couple we had pretended to be yesterday.

“Ready?” Alexander asked as I made my way down the stairs. I had changed into a pair of jeans, boots, and a light sweater to combat the spring chil outside.

I nodded and grabbed my bag off the foyer table before following him out the door.

from the bushes lining the road outside the

immediately slid around my waist, pulling me against his side. I pasted on a smile, leaning into him as we made our way

fake smiles. By the

asked as we pulled away from the mansion, the paparazzi scrambling into their own vehicles to

road. “I do it every week. Check the perimeter, make sure

in five years of marriage. But then again, I supposed I had never asked; I had always focused on my Luna duties, which didn’t often involve going out

I was always outside. When I wasn’t following around the Stormhollow warriors and training, I was usually in a tree somewhere, or perhaps swimming in the creek out


father and stepmother wanted me to be, was typically expected to stay home; manage the household, tend to the children (not that we had any), and perform

trees and swimming in creeks, just like

what was

I stared out the window, watching as the

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