The sickened luna’s last chance

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.

bushes lining the road outside the large fence surrounding the property. Paparaz course. They’d been

slid around my waist, pulling me against his side. I pasted

door for me. More camera flashes. More fake smiles. By the time he slid into the driver’s seat beside me,

the mansion, the paparazzi scrambling into their own vehicles

week. Check the perimeter, make sure there aren’t any weaknesses in cur defenses, look

duties. The kind of thing he’d never invited me to in five years of marriage. But then again, I supposed I had never asked;

I wasn’t following around the Stormhollow warriors and training, I was usually in a tree somewhere, or perhaps swimming in the creek out behind my old

me to be, was typically expected to stay home; manage the household, tend to

stopped climbing trees and swimming in creeks, just like I stopped

was what was expected

a while. I stared out the window, watching as the mansion grounds gave way