The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 82

Ella & Alexander

Ella

Dr. Evelyn’s examination was thorough, checking everything from my pulse to my reflexes to the fresh mark

on my neck. Every test came back better than it had in months.

“Your wolf’s return has completely reversed the dormancy effects,” she said, making notes on her clipboard.

“Your heart rate is strong, your blood pressure is normal, and even the pregnancy seems to be progressing

healthily. The marking worked perfectly.”

I couldn’t stop smiling. For the first time in months, I felt like myself again.

Just with… a little bit extra.

Like that pulse that wasn’t my own, but rather the one steadily thrumming in my mate’s chest.

“Finally,” my wolf purred, stretching as if waking up from a long nap, which was technically true. “I was

starting to think you’d never figure it out.”

“You disappeared on me for months,” I bit back. Using the mental bond we shared after all this time felt like slipping back into a favorite old pair of shoes. “I thought you were gone forever.”

“I was protecting us. Better to go dormant than live a life where our mate won’t mark us.” That familiar smugness in her voice hadn’t gone away during her dormancy, it seemed. “But look how well that worked out. Now we’re marked and there’s a pup on the way.”

“You’re so dramatic.”

“I prefer the term ‘strategic?”

Dr. Evelyn finished her examination and handed me a clean bill of health. “Everything looks perfect, Luna

Ella. You and the baby should be fine now.”

The baby. Our baby. Alexander’s baby.

As Lilith drove us home, the euphoria of having my wolf back began to fade slightly, replaced by a more

sobering reality. Yes, Alexander had marked me. Yes, he’d saved our child’s life and cured my condition. But

that didn’t mean he loved me.

Alexander’s bite. He’d done this out of duty, not love. He had made that perfectly clear when he referenced the

couldn’t let myself forget that. I couldn’t let my heart get broken all over again by reading more into his

complicated,

into the driveway, I could see Gabriel waiting on the front steps, likely waiting

who had driven his car behind us. The moment I stepped out of the car,

in

to something that looked an awful lot

approached the front door. “Looks like someone

wanted.”

I stopped

narrowed. “Quite the convenient timing, isn’t it? Right after Alexander starts showing

idea

Poor, sick Luna, wasting away because her cruel husband won’t mark her. What Alpha could resist that

is involved?”

felt powerful. My wolf snarled in the back of

against the front door of the mansion with enough force to rattle the hinges. His

windpipe.

Alexander marked me because he chose to, not

now. My wolf’s strength was flowing through me, making me feel like I could take on anyone who dared to disrespect me.

just physically, but in so many

wouldn’t let the likes of

door. Not enough to crush his windpipe, but

against his chest as I dissolved into tears. I buried my face in

against his shirt. “I was lying

his arms tightening around

the baby–my condition–I don’t know what to

test. And the pamphlet.” His thumbs brushed away my

words sent a shock through

bond properly. I want to give you

my chest so fierce it was almost painful. Maybe Alexander had finally realized he

our contract, of course,” Alexander continued, and my heart immediately sank. “It will need to be much longer

was thinking about legal documents and binding agreements. Not love. Not the family we could

At least he wanted to be responsible

he was offering me a way to save the baby I’d already fallen

without hesitation. “Yes,

I mark you,

grow up knowing their father had rejected us both, or worse, not growing up at all because we had both died from

“I’m sure.”

room. There were a few other people scattered

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