The sickened luna’s last chance

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Chapter 193

Ella & Alexander

Ella

I woke up on the morning of the coronation to find three women standing in my bedroom. I gasped, bolting upright and clutching the blankets to my chest.

“Who the hell are you?” I blurted out.

“Luna Ella.” One of the women bowed her head sharply while the others‘ faces turned red with embarrassment. “We’re here to get you ready for the coronation. Alpha Alexander hired us…?”

Right. I almost slapped myself in the forehead–damn pregnancy brain making me forget things. It wasn’t even seven o’clock in the morning, but I had to get started on my preparations for the coronation already. I forgot to set my alarm last night,, too.

“Sorry,” I managed with a small smile, swinging my legs over the edge of the bed. “You just startled me, that’s all. Let’s begin.”

The women, for their part, looked unfazed by my blunder. They just began setting up their styling tools and got right to work.

For the next four hours, they washed and styled my hair into an elaborate updo, did my makeup, and picked out all of the right accessories. It was actually kind of nice being pampered–they even painted my nails a pretty nude color that looked perfect against my skin, and by the time everything was

finished, I felt like a more beautiful version of myself.

But then they pulled out the dress, and my smile fell.

The ceremonial Luna Queen coronation gown was… a lot. Heavy midnight blue fabric with intricate gold

embroidery, long sleeves, a high neckline, and an enormous train. It was beautiful, sure, but it was

massive.

And even more than that, when they put it on, the fabric stretched tight across my belly. The gown

clearly wasn’t tailored to a pregnant body.

“Are you sure this will fit?” I asked, gasping for breath as one of the stylists struggled to fasten the corset in the back, her motions tugging me this way and that. “I thought I’d wear something tailored to my

current size.”

over a century has worn this exact gown

alright. I don’t want to alter such a historical

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my belly doesn’t tear

managed to fasten the corset without completely restricting my belly. But when I turned to look at myself in the

stuffed sausage,” I muttered,

look radiant, dear,” Lilith’s voice replied. I looked up to see her standing in the doorway in the

smoothing my hands down

over and adjusted the neckline of my dress. “And you’re glowing. That’s

I blinked. “What?”

on my dress, and for a moment she looked almost panicked. “I… It’s a figure of

it’s just… I don’t know. I guess I’m still getting used to the

consolation, you’re going to be the most beautiful Luna Queen anyone’s ever seen–and your beautiful belly only adds to it. Alexander won’t be able to take

you.”

night together- he’d been buried in coronation preparations for

to focus.

I was hoping that today, after all the pomp and circumstance was over, we might finally have a chance to figure out what we were to each other. Maybe we could have a

at this point–something had clearly shifted in a positive

members knocked on the door and peeked her head

My heart sank. “Already?”

uncomfortable. “He said you were

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to the face. Taking too long. Like I was some kind of burden, some inconvenience that was holding up his big

as I’d thought. Maybe he was already pulling away again, retreating back into

managed. “How am I supposed to get

waiting for you downstairs. The

for me was sleek and black, but I didn’t recognize the driver. Usually, Alexander and I were driven by

as

back door for

I gathered up my skirts and climbed into the

left without me.

fifteen, everything went smoothly. I stared out the window at the countryside, trying to calm my nerves and prepare myself for what was going to be a very long, very public