The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 190

And now, after walking in on them this morning, there was no denying it anymore.

The original plan was falling apart. Everything he’d worked for, everything he’d sacrificed, was slipping through his fingers because Alexander couldn’t keep his dick in his pants around that Stormhollow bitch.

The mercury poisoning had been Gabriel’s idea–a subtle way to make Ella sick enough so that she lost the baby. Gabriel figured that Alexander’s hormones were just raging because of his pregnant mate, and once she was no longer with child, he would come back to his senses.

Instead, they’d discovered the poisoning before the baby could be lost. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, the entire ordeal had just brought them closer together. Alexander had taken care of her, cooked for her, hovered over her like a lovesick fool.

The whole thing had backfired spectacularly.

Gabriel had run out of subtle options. It was time to accept that more drastic measures were necessary.

He found Sophia exactly where he expected to–in her private sitting room at her parents‘ estate, sipping tea and reading a trashy romance novel. She looked up when he entered and her cool gaze immediately caught onto the thunderous expression Gabriel was wearing.

“Well, well,” she said, dog–earing the page she was on and setting aside her book. “Someone looks troubled.”

“We have a problem,” Gabriel said, shutting the door behind them. “The mercury didn’t work. If anything, it made things worse.”

eyebrow arched.

in love.” The words tasted like ash in his mouth. “I walked in on them this morning, and…” He shook his head, unable to bring himself to say it out

didn’t have to. Sophia’s eyes went as wide as saucers, and for a moment, her fingers

she seemed to compose herself by force, drawing in a deep breath through her nose and out through her mouth. She set aside her

have a problem.” Sophia pulled her shoulders back. “But I

studied her for a moment, uncertain. Sophia had pulled a couple of very desperate stunts in a bid to gain Alexander’s affection, and it had only backfired for her. That was precisely why he

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if there was anything she could

had to do

that pregnancy, drive a wedge between Alexander and Ella,

Far worse.

entirely,” Gabriel said, keeping his voice low, “you’d

about it. Ensure it can’t get

Sophia sighed and pushed a lock of hair over her shoulder. “I’ve already made the mistake of trying to have her