The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 227

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Chapter 227

Ella

My eyes snapped open and I sat bolt upright with a gasp, clutching at my chest.

My… bare chest.

I frowned, blinking. As my surroundings came back into focus, I realized with a start that I was no longer laying in the guest bed in Sophia’s home, but rather on the ground in a forest. My clothes had been completely stripped, leaving me nude and vulnerable in the middle of nowhere.

Sophia had double–crossed me. What a fool I was, thinking that she had had a change of heart! If I hadn’t been so consumed by labor, then I would have known-

Wait. Labor.

My son. I needed to know where he was, if he was safe–and Lilith, too. I had to find them.

Surprisingly, my body felt nimble and free of pain as I leapt to my feet and looked around, trying to collect my bearings. Only my wolf felt a little groggy when I reached deep down within myself in search of her presence.

if she’d just woken

as I turned this way and that in search of a familiar tree or landmark. Unfortunately, all that stretched around me was untrodden

said, finding north based on the sun’s position and heading in that direction. Ashclaw,

yawned and stretched. “I’ll just need some time before

strength.”

need. I feel plenty strong now, surprisingly.” I looked down at my hands as I walked, finding myself clean and free of blood or

stretch marks I’d grown throughout the pregnancy. Perhaps whatever drug Sophia had given me had put me into a

could be in danger, and I had to get to him before

up my pace after that until I was all–out running through the forest, trees

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Soon, I arrived at the edge of the treeline, where a large farmer’s cornfield lay beyond. I saw a house sitting off in the distance and set my

help me, give me a ride back to Ashclaw. For all I knew, I was already marked as missing by

looking for me.

Alexander.

strange mixture of hope and dread. I was almost certain now that Sophia had been lying when she told me about Alexander’s intentions, but I couldn’t be entirely sure. And then, of course, there was the matter of

What if he wouldn’t let me see my son when I returned and

my fists clench with

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