The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 142

Chapter 142

For a moment, I’d been so close to sinking my teeth into her skin that I could taste her throat on my tongue even now.

But I’d pulled back at the last second. Out of fear, perhaps, but also control. What if she was manipulating me into marking her? She’d made it clear before that she didn’t want me to mark her, but maybe she changed her mind.

Maybe her father made her change her mind. Maybe he forced his little spy to get closer to me.

Or maybe I was just a fucking coward.

“No,” I said flatly. “I didn’t mark her.”

Relief flooded Gabriel’s features. “Good. That’s good. For a moment there, I thought—”

“Gabriel.” I fixed him with a hard stare. “Instead of worrying about my personal life, why don’t you go summon Sophia? I have questions about her car.”

Gabriel frowned. “You think it was stolen?”

Sophia’s car had been taken by some random criminal, that she

bring her here,”

his eyes over my having slept with Ella last night. The moment the door closed behind him, I let out a long breath and leaned back in my chair, passing my hand over my rapidly

the way she’d looked at me when I was inside of her, like I was her whole world… My

my thoughts. This time it was Liam

is she?” he

“Ella? She’s upstairs, sleeping.”

alright? After

leaned back in my chair and

to take

rather not. I came here to tell you that this is your

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Chapter 142

“Excuse me?”

so isolated, so unwanted, that she accepted a drink from a stranger just to feel normal for five minutes.” Liam’s anger was palpable. “If you hadn’t spent five years pushing her away and making her feel like she meant nothing to you, she never would have

wanted to admit because there was truth in it. Ella had been starved for affection. Of course