The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 141

Chapter 141

Ella & Alexander

Ella

Golden sunlight was streaming through the bedroom windows when I woke, warming my bare skin where the sheet had slipped down.

For a moment, I just laid there, smiling like a fool, my body pleasantly sore in places that had never ached before. A wave of something that I could only describe as an aftershock of arousal rushed through me, starting from my groin and radiating outward.

Instinctively, I reached out, expecting Alexander to be laying beside me. The last thing I remembered was his warm body flush against mine before I had fallen into the sweetest sleep I’d had in years.

But

my hand met cool, neatly made sheets.

saw that he was gone. And then the memories from last night came rushing back. First came the pleasure of our first time together,

flew

was immediate and intense. I pressed my palm against the spot where he should have bitten me, where for one heart-stopping moment I’d been certain he was

He’d pulled away.

cold. He had left before I’d even woken, hadn’t even bothered to let me know he was

what he wanted from me-my body, my virginity, probably my complete and utter surrender-and now he was back to

my hero that I had forgotten he was still

a lovesick fool

my body did feel better today… Stronger. The intimacy we’d shared had clearly made my condition improve, or so

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from our night together were overshadowed by the hollow ache of

we’d

wasn’t enough. He still saw me as the mate he never wanted. One night of passion couldn’t erase five years of

pulling the sheet over my head in shame. Goddess, how could I have been so stupid? How could I have thought that sleeping with him

watch me die than claim me as his true