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.

camera flashes erupted from the bushes lining the road outside the large

I pasted on a smile, leaning into him as we

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

we going?” I asked as we pulled away from the

his eyes fixed on the road. “I do it every week. Check the perimeter, make sure there aren’t any weaknesses in

invited me to 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

Stormhollow warriors and training, I was usually in a

or at least the type of Luna my father and stepmother wanted me to be, was typically expected to stay home; manage the household, tend to the children (not

trees and swimming in creeks, just like I stopped

that was what was

we drove in silence for a while. I stared out the window, watching as the mansion