The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 203

Ella

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The look on Alexander’s face when he opened that envelope told me everything I needed to know.

He didn’t deny it. He didn’t look confused or shocked or angry that someone was trying to frame him. He just stared at the papers with an expression that was nothing short of guilty.

I felt like such an idiot. All those moments I’d treasured recently, all those little instances of tenderness that had led my foolish heart to believe that he was actually starting to fall for me, had been nothing but lies.

It was all just a beautiful performance designed to keep me close while he gathered information on my family.

And I’d fallen for it completely.

“I need to go.”

“Wait.” Alexander suddenly moved to block my path. “You need to let me explain.”

“Explain what? That you’ve been spying on me since the day we got married? That everything between

us has been fake?”

“It’s not fake.”

“Bullshit.”

around him,

Just let

never

as panicked as Alexander. “He’s

I could do was hear what

to say anything at all or

I blinked. “What?”

ago. I found out that it wasn’t an accident. Your

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was a lot of things, but a murderer definitely wasn’t one of them. Sure, he was cold and selfish and had never treated me like his real daughter, but to have another

it… The money my father was desperate to have…

wasn’t that far–fetched

photograph. In it was a man I didn’t recognize, but the

“He’s been working for your family for years. Your father was the one who paid

meant nothing to me, but something about Alexander’s certainty made my stomach twist

like emeralds in the dim light. A muscle jumped in his

looking at me…

testing me to see

I was in on it somehow, wasn’t

“Do you think…”

Ella,” Alexander said quietly, eyes flashing,

a gunshot