The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 177

Chapter 177

Ella

I couldn’t help but laugh at Alexander’s declaration about cooking all of my meals. The man who had barely shared a meal with me, let alone set foot in our kitchen during our entire five–year marriage, was now planning to become my personal chef for the remainder of my pregnancy.

“Alexander,” I blurted out, “When was the last time you actually cooked something?”

He paused in the doorway, one hand on the frame. There was no hiding the way the tips of his ears reddened slightly. “Define… cooking.”

“Making food. From scratch. With ingredients.”

“Well…” He ran a hand through his red hair, looking almost sheepish. “I can make coffee. And toast.”

“Toast.”

“Really good toast,” he insisted, which only made me laugh harder.

“Alexander, you don’t have to do this. Lilith can keep cooking for me, and we’ll just figure out where the mercury came from—”

“No.” The intensity in his voice took me by surprise. “I need to do this, Ella. I need to know that what you’re eating is safe.” He paused, and for a moment, the air was tight. I wasn’t sure if I’d ever seen him so… protective of me.

It was for the baby, of course. But it was still sweet.

“But you’re right,” he admitted. “I’ve never had to do much cooking for myself. As an Alpha, there were always servants around, people to take care of things like that.”

There was something almost vulnerable about the admission, and it made my laughter turn into a quiet

smile.

“I’m determined to learn, though. For our baby. For you.”

The sincerity in his green gaze made my wolf purr with satisfaction. Lilith’s hand tightened around my arm, and when I met her eyes, I thought I saw a hint of something that looked like a halfway point between amusement and tenderness there.

A few minutes later, I found myself perched on a stool at the kitchen island, watching Alexander stare at a collection of ingredients. He’d rolled up his sleeves in that way that I always liked, and was furrowing his brow. He and Lilith had both tried to get me to rest on the couch, but I couldn’t help but want to watch.

“You’ve been staring at the spice rack for fifteen minutes,” I snorted.

me a sideways look. “I’m

“Formulating what, exactly?”

up a box of penne. “How hard

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in response to her quip as I watched him fill a pot with water and place it

to add salt to

“Salt?”

the pasta while it cooks. Makes it

grabbed the salt shaker, dumping what

get up from my stool, but he

it

I’m the

was half annoyance, half amusement. “Sit down,

I couldn’t help but let out a

twenty minutes, I watched Alexander cook. He managed to get the pasta cooking without any major disasters, and moved

I repeated, watching him open

it look easy,”

been watching

reddened again.

cocked at that. “I didn’t know you even

with the flat side of

just never struck me as

a lot you

I muttered, although Alexander didn’t hear me over the sound of sizzling as he dumped a can of tomatoes into the pan with

earlier about doing something daring, thinking of myself for once,

did. It would have been easy here, in the heart of the home, watching as Alexander

a stupid way, I hated the thought of potentially ruining this little

one of those dangerous fantasies that I kept finding myself slipping into. The one where this was real, where Alexander actually wanted to take

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