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.

had to leave this morning. Trade dispute with a neighboring pack.

Maybe sitting beside the bed like he had in the hospital, maybe even looking worried about me. But of course he wasn’t. Of course he’d found something more

“Oh,” I managed. “Right.”

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

I stiffened. “Knows what?”

exist. “Your little secret is out. Did you really think you could hide it forever, or did you

supposed to know about it. I had begged the doctor to keep it a secret. All I wanted was to get

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me when it was all over. “Who told you?” I

now we all know how weak and pathetic you really are.” Gabriel stood up, his figure blotting out the morning sunlight and turning

“What do you mean?”

his

to get attention.” Gabriel’s eyes glittered with malice. “He said you were desperate and weak, and that he’d never mark

my heart, twisting and stabbing over and over. Alexander had said that? He’d called me desperate and weak? He still didn’t believe me,

not-I wasn’t faking