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.

still tender from Alexander’s bite. He’d done this out of

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

was complicated, at least now I could keep our baby–and I could rest easy knowing that Alexander wanted

I could see Gabriel waiting on the

moment I stepped out of the car, The Beta’s

in

to shock to something that looked

we approached the front door. “Looks like

wanted.”

I

Right after Alexander starts showing interest in you,

idea

know you’ve been playing the long game here. Poor, sick Luna, wasting away because her

is involved?”

felt powerful. My

of the mansion with enough force to rattle the hinges.

windpipe.

didn’t manipulate anyone into anything. Alexander marked me because he chose to, not because! somehow tricked him

on anyone who dared to disrespect me. And unlike before

not just physically, but in so many other

wouldn’t let the likes of Gabriel

Luna.” I pressed him harder against the door. Not enough to crush his windpipe, but just enough to cut off a bit of

as I dissolved into tears. I buried my face in

against his shirt. “I was

around me. “It’s okay. You

baby–my condition–I don’t know what

cup my face in his hands, forcing me to meet his eyes. “I found the test. And the pamphlet.” His thumbs brushed away my tears. “I don’t want you to have an abortion. I want us to raise this

words sent a shock

mark you. Complete our bond properly. I want to give you the family you

it was almost painful. Maybe Alexander had finally realized he loved me. Maybe our night together had meant as much to him as it had

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

offering to save our baby’s life, Alexander was thinking

hate me. At least he

way to save the baby I’d

I said without

sure? Once I mark you,

us both, or worse, not growing up at all because we had both died from this

“I’m sure.”

a few other people scattered throughout the

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