The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 197

Alexander & Ella

Alexander

Ella looked like hell.

Her dress was torn. Hair windswept. Feet bare. And she smelled like… was that… car oil?

Before I could even process what was happening, she turned around and walked right out of the

cathedral, leaving me with only one question swirling through my mind: what the fuck?

The High Priest was still holding the crown above my head, frozen in place. The entire cathedral was so

silent you could hear a pin drop. Everyone had seen her. Everyone was staring at the doors she’d just

disappeared through.

“Your Majesty?” the High Priest whispered. “Shall we continue?”

I looked at Gabriel, who was standing to my right with his face twisted in a scowl. He gave me a sharp

shake of his head. A silent warning. I shouldn’t go after her. Not when the coronation was already

underway.

mate, pregnant with my child. She’d obviously been through something terrible to show up looking like that. I couldn’t just let her walk

on the ceremony,” I said to the priest, stepping away. I then turned to

be

wide. “Alexander, you

can, and

stepped down from the altar. Crown be damned.

walked down the aisle toward the doors Ella had fled through, ceremonial cape of fur and velvet billowing behind me. I could hear Gabriel calling my name

silk and brocade spilling out from beneath the

floor.

when I carefully pushed the door open, I found her with

in

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“Ella?”

I said her name, and I could see she’d been crying. Her makeup

were tracks

it,” she sniffled. “I ruined

down on the floor beside her. “You didn’t

everyone saw me. Everyone was staring at me like I was some kind of…” She

I look like I crawled out

like you’ve had an adventure.” I reached over