The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 166

Ella

When we finally broke apart, both of us were breathing hard. My head spun, heart pounded, every nerve ending tingling as if I’d just gripped a live wire in my bare hands.

“Delicious,” my wolf purred. And it was. I could have had a thousand of those kisses and never felt satisfied.

But as the cameras flashed around us, I realized what I had done.

I’d kissed my husband. Passionately. In front of everyone.

My cheeks burned as I took in the sea of camera lenses pointed in our direction. Tomorrow, those photos would be all over social media.

Alexander straightened his tie and cleared his throat. “The mate bond,” he said quietly, as if reading the dumbfounded expression on my face. “It’s still new. Sometimes it can be… overwhelming, so I don’t blame you.”

Of course. The mate bond. A biological reaction, nothing more. Alexander wasn’t kissing me back because he wanted to–he was just responding to the chemical pull between mates.

I felt like the biggest fool in the world.

his outstretched hand and standing. “The

I needed some air.

onto my face and turned, weaving my way through the crowd. There was a set of double doors by the rear of the banquet hall, which led out

and I gulped it down gratefully. The courtyard was empty except for

at the stars scattered across the dark sky like diamonds on a blanket

was so tired

of making up romantic stories for strangers when the man I

was marked to me now. I was carrying his child. But he still couldn’t love me the way a husband should

the way I’d started to love him,

“The kiss meant something to him.

was just biology.

feelings. Doesn’t

myself. It didn’t matter what my wolf thought she’d sensed. Alexander had made his feelings clear.

marry Sephia as soon as he could? Did he love her in the same way she loved him, but remained bound to me because of politics and

our five years of marriage. Sure, I rried

any of

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