The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 162

Ella

The midnight blue gown fit me just as perfectly now as it did that day in the shop. I smoothed my hands over the bodice one last time, turning this way and that and watching as the skirt flared around my legs and the diamond necklace Alexander had given me glinted around my neck.

I looked like a Luna. More than that, I looked like someone who belonged on the arm of a future Alpha King.

Too bad none of it was real…

Right?

Lately, I wasn’t so sure. Things felt… different since that day in the vault. I didn’t know where exactly Alexander and I stood anymore. Lovers? Partners? Still enemies? Or something else entirely?

“Ella, are you ready?” Alexander’s voice called from outside the door. I jumped slightly at the sound and turned to go.

“Coming!” I called out, and it was then that my eyes caught something behind the dresser. Something small and dainty.

bent to see what it was, and my eyebrows shot up when I saw the tiny bracelet

caught as I

of the cobwebs off.

than he let on, made my chest turn warm with an emotion I hardly dared name. Without thinking, I clasped

in his pockets. When

that it made my chest flutter, and when I moved to walk by him, he grabbed my wrist and held

looked away, cheeks warming. “Yes, well… You

although as we made our way downstairs and out to the waiting car, I couldn’t help but notice what almost looked

the entrance of the banquet hall where the party would be held

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reporters and photographers already gathered

go,” Alexander muttered under his breath. “Stick to

by one another’s sides. Smiling for the cameras. Showing off the mating

reminder that despite everything, our marriage

faster. I took Alexander’s offered arm and we walked up the red carpet together, ignoring the questions from the press about my pregnancy and our relationship but stopping occasionally