The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 104

Chapter 104

Ella

The mark certainly looked real.

I turned my head to the side, pulling my hair away to get a better view in the mirror. Lilith had done an excellent job on the makeup. The two crescent-shaped marks on my neck, meant to mimic the impression of Alexander’s upper and lower fangs, looked like they’d been there for

years.

She’d even added a subtle texture to make them appear slightly raised, like real bite marks would be.

If I didn’t know better, I’d think I was looking at a genuine mating mark.

But the sight made a bitter and hollow feeling curl in my chest.

This was what I should have had five years ago. This was what should have happened on our wedding night, when Alexander took me back to our honeymoon suite and claimed me as his. He should have sunk his teeth into my neck as we made love for the first time, completing the bond that fate had started.

Instead, he had simply walked me to the door of the guest bedroom all the way on the

opposite end of the mansion, muttered a curt “goodnight,” and left me standing alone on my wedding night, confused and humiliated.

Five years later, and here I was with a fake mark, getting ready to fool the world. To pretend, once again, that my marriage wasn’t a complete sham.

I was supposed to be getting dressed for dinner. Alexander had arranged for us to eat at the most visible, public restaurant in town-a place where we were guaranteed to be seen and photographed.

It was the perfect venue to show off my “mark” and quell the rumors.

But I couldn’t stop staring at my reflection. At the mark that wasn’t real. At the symbol of everything I’d been denied.

from the Moon Goddess. Wolves spent their entire lives searching

who couldn’t even bring

was wrong with me? Why was I not

had happened in the alley behind the bar. Not after I’d felt his hardness pressed

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to me, at

thought of making love to me and marking me was the worst thing that

I that repulsive to him? That

for one evening Alexander would be waiting, and we had a show

specifically designed to draw attention to my throat. The color made my pale skin look almost luminous, which made the fake mark stand

exactly what Alexander wanted

touches on my makeup when a knock sounded at

Alexander’s voice called through the wood. “We need to leave soon if

replied, grabbing my clutch and giving myself one final

garbage, at least I looked confident and poised—like a proper Luna with her mate’s mark on her neck No

vibrant by contrast. He looked devastatingly handsome, and for a moment, I allowed myself to imagine what it would be like if this were

neck. Something flashed across his face, but it was so fast I couldn’t catch what it

said calmly. “Lilith did a

be

There was so much I wanted to say, to ask. Why won’t you just

none of it. Instead, I said curtly, “Shall

and we walked together to

a little while later, I wasn’t surprised at all to see a crowd gathered outside. Alexander had made certain the our dinner plans were leaked. We needed maximum visibility for

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parked the car out front, and

didn’t want to go out there, to be scrutinized and photographed, to have my fake mark on display like another fucking humiliation. But what choice did I have? If Alexander’s campaign didn’t go well, he might not divorce me. And he certainly wasn’t going to mark me, so divorce was my only option if I