The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 181

The shift was pure bliss.

I’d forgotten how fucking good it felt to be in my wolf form. Every sense was sharper, every scent and sound magnified tenfold..

My wolf was a sleek silver–gray, smaller than Alexander’s massive black form but built for speed and agility. I stretched, testing my muscles, and felt nothing but strength and vitality flowing through me.

The game was everything I’d hoped it would be and more. My team worked together like a well–oiled machine, using strategy and coordination to outmaneuver Alexander’s group at every turn. I found myself falling back into tactics I’d learned years ago, before my father had forced me to play the role of a perfect Luna.

For a little while, I was a teenager again, running with the Stormhollow warriors. Wild and free and with the wind in my fur.

It felt so good.

At one point, I managed to sneak right past Alexander himself to snatch their flag from its hiding spot. He caught sight of me as I was making my escape and gave chase, his massive form crashing through the underbrush behind me. But I was faster in a straight line, and I managed to cross back into our territory with the flag clutched in my jaws.

When I looked back, Alexander had shifted back to human form and was standing there in just his jeans, hands on his hips and an expression of bewildered admiration on his face.

My team won decisively, much to the delight of the spectators who had gathered to watch. Even Gabriel looked begrudgingly impressed.

I was still in wolf form, savoring the last few moments of freedom before I had to shift back and return to being the perfectly polite Luna Ella.

Suddenly, I caught a scent that made my wolf go completely still.

It was familiar. Not just familiar, but… family. The kind of scent that my wolf recognized on an instinctual level, like pack bonds and blood ties all rolled into one.

My first thought was that my father had shown up to the event. I turned, trying to track the scent, expecting to see his face somewhere in the crowd.

of the property where the staff had set up

It led toward Lilith.

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mistaken. Lilith wasn’t family. She might as well have

weren’t related, no matter how much I wished we

by the hot summer breeze. I stood there for a moment longer, confused and unsettled, before deciding I must

game and the unfamiliar sensation of being in wolf form again were probably

me hypersensitive to

human form, the

I emerged from the

over as if checking

do you feel?

for the baby was touching, but a

I think shifting was

about the baby. I’m worried about you,

blinked, taken aback by the calm conviction in Alexander’s voice. His

he looked at me was a little too close for comfort to the way he’d looked at me in

kitchen the other night.

been mistaken. He wasn’t…

Could he?

managed, throat bobbing with the effort of swallowing.

concern.”