The sickened luna’s last chance

Ella

Alexander’s lips tasted like bourbon and woodfire smoke. His mouth slanted across mine, parting to give access tip of his tongue. I responded instinctively, as if a dam had burst and every atom of my being went rushing into

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e slick, warm

As our tongues swirled around one another, battling for dominance, I felt his hardness press against my stomach through his pants. A thrill shot through me at the contact. Was this finally happening? Was I finally experiencing what it felt like to be wanted by a man? To be wanted by my mate?

If this wasn’t desire, then I wasn’t sure what was. His member was hard and throbbing against me already, and without thinking, I reached down between us, my fingers brushing against the outline of his cock through the fabric.

Alexander broke the kiss with a groan, lips grazing my jawline. The sound made me shiver, like cold water washing over me on a hot day. My body instantly responded to his.

This was what I imagined for five years, during all of those lonely nights in my bed. Perhaps I didn’t expect my first time to be in ant alleyway behind a bar, but I wasn’t complaining.

It was… exciting. Thrilling. This was what it felt like to be alive.

Wordlessly, Alexander slipped his hand between us and up my skirt. His fingers found my center immediately.

I gasped into his mouth, my hips bucking forward instinctively as he began to move his fingers in slow circles. Even through the thin fabric, the pressure was exquisite. I’d touched myself before, of course, but it had never felt like this–never felt this intense, this overwhelming.

I was close already, embarrassingly so. Just a few more seconds and I’d-

“Alpha?”

I froze at the sound of Gabriel’s voice, and Alexander jerked away from me, spinning around to face the entrance to the alley. I quickly yanked my shirt down and smoothed my skirt, my face burning with humiliation as Gabriel rounded the corner to the alley.

But Gabriel wasn’t alone. Behind him, my father and stepmother came into view.

What were they doing here?

The trio stopped short at the end of the alley. They hadn’t seen the interaction, but they didn’t have to to know what was happening. My lipstick was smeared across the corner of Alexander’s mouth, his shirt rumpled, my skirt sitting too high on my hips.

For a moment, no one spoke. Then, Gabriel’s eyes flicked to me and raked over my disheveled appearance. The hatred in his gaze was so hot and prominent that it sent a shiver crawling up my spine.

“Alpha Alexander,” my father suddenly said, not even addressing me. “Are we interrupting?”

I wished the ground would open up and swallow me whole. Being caught by Gabriel was bad enough, but my parents? Fucking hell.

you doing here?”

stepmother stepped forward, smiling impishly. She knew I was wearing the

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were having dinner downtown and saw Gabriel outside the bar. Thought we’d stop by to say hello,” she said. Her eyes raked over both of us and her smile widened. “And I must say, we couldn’t have picked a better time.

on “getting along” made me want to disappear into the brick

relationship is doing so well,” my father said, suddenly all business, “then maybe it’s

I stiffened. “Excuse me?”

heard him. “A child after all these years would be so lovely. And of course, I’ve always wanted to be a

fact, Alpha Alexander, it might be wise to set up a trust fund for the child. We could manage it, of course. Ensure

caught in an intimate moment, and they were already

toward the Beta, “escort my parents out

using my Luna Voice, the same one that had forced him into silence at the

But he didn’t leave. His left eye twitched as he struggled against my command, shoulders trembling with the

to break

don’t think so, Luna,” he sneered. My title sounded like a joke on his lips. “I’m not your

blinked, stunned by his defiance.

“And I’m choosing not to listen to a weak, pathetic excuse for a Luna

Even my parents

my

his expression hardening. “I’m saying what everyone’s thinking. She couldn’t get you to mark her before, so now she’s trying to fuck her way

the ugliness in his words. But before I could respond, Alexander growled, “You should watch what you say. Defying your superiors

his shoulders back, openly defying his Alpha. “I won’t stand for it

the Beta could finish, Gabriel stumbled backward, blood spurting from his lip,

across the alley. The sound of flesh hitting flesh, of growls and curses, echoed off the

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