The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 216

Ella

Lightning struck again. And again. It lit up the sky like fireworks, each flash so bright if was as if the wan had risen outside, only to slip away again and cast us into complete darkness

And with each strike came another kiss. Another touch. Another whispered word that was lost amongst all the noise from the thunder.

Alexander hovered gently above me, moving slowly, as if afraid he might break me. Which, I supposed, was a possibility–my ankle was still in pain, excruciatingly so if I tried to move it, but I had insisted on doing this anyway even if it was a bad idea.

Right now, the pain or the consequences didn’t matter. I just wanted to feel my mate on top of me, savor the sensation of his body gently pressing me against the floorboards before it was taken away.

I didn’t know for certain if we would get to have a moment like this again. Perhaps that was what made it so sweet–that not knowing, that uncertainty that this bubble could pop in a matter of minutes and we would never be the same again.

“I’ve been wanting this for so long,” he murmured into my ear as he brushed a strand of rain soaked hair out of my eyes. “I didn’t want to admit it, maybe not even to myself, but I suppose it’s because…

“Because of the full moon,” I quickly cut him off. After all, that had to be the only logical reason why he was with me now–the pull of the moon on our mate bond. The urge that all mated pairs felt during this phase of the lunar cycle. The desire to mate, or in my case, to ease the pregnancy symptoms.

At least, that was what I told myself. It was simpler that way. More… palatable. Safer.

Perhaps because I had become so used to whatever dance we’d been doing for five years that it was easier to attribute Alexander’s sudden tenderness to an external force. The mate bond. The full moon. Our

wolves.

Not just us. Never just us.

it was anything else felt dangerous. Probably because I knew, deep down, that he didn’t really love me. And it was safer to pretend that we were on

to that, although something flickered through his green eyes that I didn’t have a chance to

across my waist. When his hand moved upward, thumb flicking over

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the tenderness of the gesture took my breath away. “Here.” He gently lifted me, then laid the jacket back down on the floorboards and us on top of it. The warmth

that single flickering candle and the occasional lightning strike. Alexander pushed my skirt up around my hips, hand

feeling of it must have alighted something in him, because his eyes glimmered when

so wet?” he laughed. “Every time, you’re fucking wet for me. Soaked. Like you’re

my pussy settled perfectly into the callused warmth of his palm. “Would that

with something strained. I bit my lip to suppress my own whimper as his palm began to rub slow circles across my folds, just enough pressure to make my nerve endings

I knew you were walking

to keep his hands off of me, but I pushed the thought away–because I knew the answer already. He didn’t trust me.

I quickly dispelled it with a deep exhale. No. I would not think about that right

wanted

away. I watched with rapt fascination as he reached down and undid his

his eyes never leaving mine, he spat into the very palm he’d just used to pleasure me and rubbed it

there. He didn’t even have

his weight from me as he gently slipped into me. Didn’t pull his warmth away. Just caged me against the floor, braced on his forearms, and filled me inch by

eyelids flutter shut for a moment as he let me adjust to the sensations, simply enjoyed the feeling of him slipping into

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