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.

her. If it comes out that she’s innocent

if we come

to remain calm and simply nodded. “Very well. Now get out of my office so I can get some

left, I tried to return to the paperwork. But I made it through exactly two more pages before my mind

matter what the investigation turned

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 wanted

I needed air.

myself wandering in the gardens. My feet carried me toward a familiar spot of their own accord, pulled toward a tantalizing scent by

sitting beneath the largest cherry tree, perched on the edge of

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off her growing belly, and she

what she was saying, but judging from her soft

she was reading

from the shadows. There was something so peaceful about the scene, so domestic and perfect, that it made me