The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 192

My jaw clenched. I knew Gabriel was telling the truth. For five years, I had kept a careful distance from Ella because I couldn’t trust her, and now I had even more concrete proof that her parents had used her to get closer to me. For all I knew, she really was a spy and was getting exactly what they all wanted.

And yet… The way she’d looked at me last night…

If she was pretending, then she was a hell of a good actress.

And I was the fool who would buy right into it until the very end.

“The investigation,” I blurted out. “Where do we stand?”

“Still waiting on concrete evidence. Promise me you won’t let what happened last night happen again

until we know the truth.”

Promise him I won’t touch my own mate. The very idea made me feel sick.

But Gabriel was right about one thing–I couldn’t afford to be reckless. Not anymore.

also watch yourself around her. If it comes out that she’s innocent and you’ve been disrespecting your

if we come

Alpha authority bristled at his tone, but I forced myself to remain calm and simply nodded. “Very well. Now get out of my office so I can get some actual work

paperwork. But I made it through exactly two more pages

truthfully promise Gabriel what he’d asked for. Because no matter what the investigation turned up, no matter what evidence they found, my

a claiming, a surrendering, a recognition of something I’d been fighting for five fucking years. And despite Gabriel’s warnings, despite the logical voice in my head that said I

anything, I

I needed air.

few minutes later, I found myself wandering in the gardens. My feet carried me toward a familiar spot of their

sitting beneath the largest cherry tree,

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her growing belly, and she

judging from her soft voice and the way she kept glancing

she was reading to our unborn

peaceful about the scene, so domestic and perfect, that it made me