The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 169

‘Come on,” she muttered, twisting further and wincing. “Stupid thing.”

I took a step back, figuring I should probably leave instead of watching her undress like a creep. But the way she was struggling made me feel like an asshole for leaving. She had clearly been struggling with the corset by herself all this time. I couldn’t just walk away when she obviously needed help.

Before I could second–guess myself, I pushed the door open and stepped into the room.

“Need help?”

Ella spun around, eyes going wide. A flush crept up her neck.

“Alexander. I thought you were… I thought you had business.”

“I did. It’s finished.” The lie came easily. “You look like you’re having trouble.”

She glanced back at the mirror, then at me, uncertainty written all across her face. Finally, she sighed. “I can’t reach the laces. They’re too high up.”

“Turn around.”

me. Her pale skin

her perfume.

I worked, but I

as the first few inches of lacing came

reached behind her to continue on her own, her arms still didn’t

knuckles occasionally brushing against the smooth skin of her back through the gaps in the lacing. Each lace was fucking torture. My wolf howled in my mind, begging me to take her right then and there, and it was hell trying to hold him

to loosen significantly. The bodice of her dress sagged slightly, revealing more of that

skin.

Just a few more eyelets and she’d be able to step out of

her in my arms and kiss her the way I’d been wanting to all night. To peel that dress off

every right to touch her, to

had every reason to

Ella’s face, flushed and expectant, lips slightly parted.

Dammit.

laces and stepped back, clasping my hands behind me to keep myself from

able to manage