The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 42

Ella & Alexander

Ella

I screamed and lunged for the nearest blanket, yanking it off the bed and wrapping it around myself. But it was too late–Gabriel had already seen everything. Every inch of black lace. Every exposed bit of skin. And there was a lot of that.

“Get out!” I shrieked, clutching the blanket to my chest. “What the hell are you doing in here?”

But Gabriel didn’t leave. Instead, he took a step into the room.

“I should be the one asking you what you’re doing,” he growled.

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

Gabriel sneered. “Don’t play innocent, Ella. You’re trying to seduce him, aren’t you? Trying to get knocked up so he’s forever bound to you? Or are you just hoping he’ll be stupid enough to mark you?”

I blinked, my shock and humiliation momentarily replaced with confusion. Was that what he thought? That I had ordered fancy lingerie to seduce Alexander and get pregnant? And more importantly, why did Gabriel even care?

“So what if I am?” I shot back, lifting my chin defiantly. “He’s my husband. My mate. What business is it of yours what happens in our bedroom?”

Gabriel’s face blanched. Clearly, he hadn’t expected me to own up to it. Of course, I hadn’t actually ordered the lingerie, but that didn’t matter. Seeing him so disturbed by the thought filled me with a sense of satisfaction.

“You think he’ll fall for it?” Gabriel scoffed after a moment, regaining his composure. “Alexander’s smarter than that. He knows exactly what you are.”

“And what am I, exactly?”

“A manipulator who’s using her body to get what she wants. A whore.”

“You’re disgusting,” I growled. “And frankly, I don’t care what you think of me. Get. Out.”

mean to use my Luna Voice that time–it just slipped out, as if it became more natural

far, the door swung open again, the sunlight in the hallway illuminating an

Alexander.

staring at the scene. Green eyes first flicked to me, wrapped in a blanket with my face as red as a cherry, then

what had happened, but Alexander began to speak first. He nodded toward the box,

too much to bear. I couldn’t take

you, out!” I shouted, storming toward them with the blanket clutched around me.

hand, using the other to keep

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Chapter 42

Alexander

whispered as we moved away from the bedroom door. “Trying it on.

the top of that blanket, the box of lace and silk sitting beside her it was already

growled, pushing Gabriel toward my

doors, Gabriel continued, “She’s trying to seduce you, Alpha. I found her trying on lingerie–expensive stuff, too. You need to be careful. She might even try to get

took everything I had to keep my feet rooted

else–a hot, dark, dangerous fury that Gabriel had

it, I lunged forward, slamming Gabriel against the wall with my forearm

my mate?” I snarled, my fangs dropping dangerously. “You walked into our bedroom without knocking and saw her

like that. I was looking for you,

him. “The door was shut, and

my arm.

body,” I cut him off. “Because if I didn’t, you’d be bleeding on the

And truthfully, I was a bit surprised myself. But my wolf wasn’t–he was

Ella wasn’t mine. Not really. She wasn’t

“Yet,” my wolf added.

She

a beautiful woman. Very beautiful. And even you aren’t immune to that, are you? How

Gabriel sputtered. “No, that’s not–I