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.

my eyebrows shot up when I saw the tiny bracelet that I’d thrown there months ago

I carefully picked

of the cobwebs off.

on, made my chest turn warm with an emotion I

was waiting for me in the corridor, leaning against the wall with his hands in his pockets.

The word came out so simply and matter–of–factly that it made my chest flutter, and when I moved to walk by him, he grabbed my wrist and held it up to inspect the bracelet.” I didn’t

warming. “Yes, well… You seem to like

respond to that, although as we made our way downstairs and out to the waiting car, I couldn’t

of the banquet

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reporters and photographers already gathered outside.

muttered under

sides. Smiling for the cameras. Showing off the mating mark and my belly, although it was

reminder that despite everything, our marriage was purely

door, and immediately the cameras started flashing 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 to make sure they got a