The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 230

He also cried like hell whenever I put him down, so there was that.

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But Sophia was right; I was already searching for a nanny, and the world couldn’t wait forever. I was still the Alpha King, even if I just wanted to be a grieving husband for the rest of my life. I couldn’t let my duties fall to the wayside. I’d already missed so much this week.

“My offer still stands, you know.” Sophia leaned closer to me. “Hire me as the nanny. You don’t even have to pay me. Just…” She swallowed hard. “Let us go back to the way things once were. Friends.”

My jaw clenched at that. Sophia had been practically begging me to hire her as Lucien’s nanny since he was born, but I still didn’t trust her enough for that. And… friends? That notion felt so far–fetched I could have laughed if I wasn’t so exhausted.

“The ad has already gone out, and we’ve received dozens of applications,” I replied curtly. “At this point, I can’t just halt the process. It wouldn’t be fair to the qualified individuals who applied.”

Sophia’s face darkened. She was opening her mouth to say something else when a sudden commotion coming from downstairs caught our attention–glass breaking and raised voices. A moment later, Hunter

burst into the room with wide eyes and disheveled hair and a cut across his cheek like he’d been

scratched.

downstairs. A homeless woman snuck in

watch the display. Her back was turned

go of me!” she was shouting, fighting wildly against two guards who

stepped forward and held Lucien tightly against my chest. “My son is sleeping,

they were nearly white, widened when they spotted the tiny bundle in my arms. Something protective came over

with that protectiveness came something

twang of a thread that reverberated in my

just a moment, I swore I felt the slightest

was going insane, wasn’t I? I needed to

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I repeated, composing myself once