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.

managed, taking his outstretched

I needed some air.

I forced a smile onto my face and turned, weaving my way through the crowd. There was a set of double

my heated skin, and I gulped it down gratefully. The courtyard was empty except for mè, lit only

and tilted my head back, staring up at the

was so tired

didn‘ feel the same way. Tired of making up romantic stories for strangers when the man I was married to saw our relationship as nothing more than a business

child. But he still

couldn’t love me in the way I’d started to love

kiss meant something to him. I could

just biology.

Doesn’t mean they don’t

made his feelings clear. Even with a baby in my belly, we were still contracted to one another–we weren’t

the same way she loved him, but remained bound to me because of politics and a fate

we had made love once in our five years of marriage. Sure, I rried our child in my womb. And

did any

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