The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 218

Chapter 218

Alexander & Ella

Alexander

It was early on a Tuesday afternoon. I had a meeting to attend in less than an hour and so much to do. I should have been reviewing the budget reports spread across my desk before the meeting, but I couldn’t

focus.

My mind kept drifting to other things. Better things.

Like the way Ella looked when she was spread out beneath me like a buffet that was just for me. The taste of Ella’s lips, sweet with rainwater from the storm. The sound of Ella’s voice when she cried out my name, nearly lost beneath the sound of the thunder.

Ella. Ella, Ella.

She consumed my mind. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw her. Every time I inhaled, I smelled her. I couldn’t even sleep properly anymore because I just wanted to fucking stare at her.

Fuck. I was in deep, wasn’t I?

I was certainly in this far, far deeper than I’d ever intended to be with anyone, let alone with the woman. I’d married for political reasons five years ago. For all I knew, she might still be a spy and I really was the

fool Gabriel said I was.

But there was no denying it anymore–I was falling for Ella. Hard and fast and irreversibly. There was no going back from here. Not anymore.

Maybe I’d been falling for her longer than I cared to admit. Maybe it had started back when she was sick and I’d found myself looking forward to our chess games in the hospital.

Or maybe it was more recent, tied to the pregnancy and the way she stood up to Gabriel and the way everything had changed after I’d marked her.

Either way, it didn’t matter when it had started. What mattered was what I was going to do about it now.

make this official. I wanted to tell her how I felt, wanted to stop pretending that there wasn’t something between us. I wanted to show her that she wasn’t just sex or

her, not just

afternoon. Tonight, when she got home with news about our child, maybe that would be the right time

on my office door interrupted my

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I called out without looking up from the

“Alpha King.”

head snapped up to see Thomas Black standing in my doorway, cap in his hands and that

groundskeeper from Stormhollow who’d confessed to cutting the brake lines on my parents‘ car. The man who

set down my

sorry to bother you without an appointment, but I had to come.” He stepped

up a little straighter.

and pulled out a manila envelope. “I found this when I was snooping through some

handed me the envelope, and I could feel how thick it was. Whatever was inside, there was a lot

contents. It was all legal

stack…

My blood went cold.

a year ago. Six and a half months, in fact. The header read “Agreement Between Alpha Richard

page, clear as

Ella

outdone herself with the gender

each one completely unique, were piped

vanilla sponge, was either pink or blue filling that

was killing

set the cake on the dining room table with two plates and

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