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.

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 convenience to me, but someone

to her, not just the Alpha King who happened to share a

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

my office door interrupted my

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in,” I called out without looking up from the

“Alpha King.”

standing in my doorway, cap in his hands and

to cutting the brake lines on my parents‘ car. The man who I had threatened into

I set down my pen.

without an appointment, but I had to come.” He stepped further into the room and closed the door behind him. “I

sat up a little straighter. “What is

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

how thick it was. Whatever was inside, there

all legal documents. Contracts.

stack…

My blood went cold.

in fact. The header read “Agreement Between Alpha Richard Eden of Stormhollow and Ella Solace, Luna of Ashclaw, Regarding Strategic Manipulation of Alpha Alexander Solace of

bottom of the page,

Ella

had really outdone herself with

white cake with buttercream frosting, but she had gone all out with the decorations. Little flowers, each one completely unique, were piped along the perimeter of the

the vanilla sponge, was either pink or blue filling

anticipation was

cake on the dining room table with two plates and

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