The sickened luna’s last chance

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.

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

home with news about our

my

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out without looking up from

“Alpha King.”

Thomas Black standing in my doorway, cap in his hands and that same nervous expression he’d worn every time I’d seen him over the past

confessed to cutting the brake lines on my parents‘ car. The man

set down my pen. “I

know, sir. I’m sorry to bother you without an appointment, but I had to come.” He stepped further into the room and closed the door behind him. “I have something you

up a little straighter.

was snooping through some old files at the Stormhollow estate.

thick it was. Whatever was inside, there

opened it and pulled out the contents. It was all legal documents.

stack…

My blood went cold.

header read “Agreement Between

the bottom of the page, clear

Ella

had really outdone herself with

decorations. Little flowers, each one completely unique, were piped along the perimeter of the top layer. “Boy

vanilla sponge, was either pink or blue filling that would reveal whether Alexander and

anticipation was killing

two plates and forks, and now I was

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