The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 117

Chapter 117

Ella

The morning light streaming through the bedroom windows was too bright, and my head was pounding worse than any hangover. I blinked slowly, trying to remember what had happened. Slowly, far too slowly, it all came back to me.

The charity auction, Sophia destroying Lilith’s locket, the bracelet Alexander had given me, returning home…

And then the moment that everything had gone black.

I tried to sit up, wincing as my body protested. Every muscle ached, and there was a dull throb behind my eyes that made me want to crawl back under the covers and sleep for another week.

“You’re awake.”

I turned toward the voice and found Gabriel sitting in the chair beside the bed, his arms crossed and that familiar disapproving expression on his face. Not exactly the person I’d been hoping to see when I first woke up.

“Where’s Alexander?” I asked, my voice coming out as a croak. I reached up to touch the bandage on the side of my head where I had hit the tiles and winced as a lance of pain shot through me.

a neighboring pack. He’ll be gone for a few

than I expected it to. Deep down, I’d been hoping Alexander would be here when I woke up. Maybe sitting beside the bed like he had in the hospital, maybe even looking worried

“Oh,” I managed. “Right.”

forward, and something in his expression made my blood run cold. There was something dark and predatory there, like a wolf licking its chops before

I stiffened. “Knows what?”

know about your so-called ‘condition’.” He maid air quotes with his fingers like the condition didn’t really exist. “Your little secret is out.

it. I had begged the doctor to keep it a secret. All I wanted

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was all over. “Who told you?”

weak and pathetic you really are.” Gabriel stood up, his figure blotting out the morning sunlight and turning him into nothing but a silhouette as he loomed over me. “Alexander was right about you

“What do you mean?”

his

to manipulate him. Even faking an illness to get attention.” Gabriel’s eyes

Alexander had

wasn’t faking anything,” I