The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 219

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Chapter 219

Ella

I had never seen that contract before in my entire life.

“Do you care to explain?” Alexander’s face was red with fury, green eyes so dark that they were nearly

black.

Explain myself? What was there to explain?

“Alexander,” I said, handing the contract back to him, “I have no idea what this is. I’ve never seen it

before.”

He blinked at me like I’d just sprouted a second head or perhaps told him that the sky was purple instead of blue. “It’s got your signature on it.”

Indeed, the contract did have my signature on it. But it wasn’t mine. Not really. “It’s a forgery,” I said simply, frustration coiling low in my gut at the very notion–I wasn’t angry with Alexander, but rather with whoever had stolen my identity to use in this facade. “I swear to you, I never signed a contract like

this.”

closely for a long time. I tried to keep my anxiety at bay, choosing instead to have faith that he would see it for what

crime I’d never committed.

was so evident on his face that it made my heart come screeching to a

No. No.

after all of the tenderness we had shared, after the fact that I was carrying his seven- month

heinous enough to sign a

on the swell of

“Alexander-”

trust you, Ella,” he cut me off. His voice was low, edged with barely contained anger–and

it felt like my own rippling

nothing but prove myself

were a spy for your father, and

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“I’ll help-”

“Without your interference.”

between us like a dark cloud, threatening to downpour in the very room we

could feel the

want to hear his response, because

I could see

could feel them through the bond, too, coming in waves like the ocean crashing violently against the

managed, “I’m going to have to put you under