The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 235

Chapter 234

Alexander

Ella’s funeral was long and exhausting. And yet, somehow, it was all such a blur that it almost seemed to go by too quickly. I vaguely recalled placing flowers on her casket, watching as it got lowered into the ground, listening to the kind words spoken about her…

But if anyone were to ask me for specifics, I couldn’t tell them.

By the time I got home that night with Lucien still cradled in my arms, fussing now for milk, I felt like I,

too, had been lowered into that grave beside Ella.

Somehow, I managed to feed and change Lucien, then give him his medicine. He still had to be hooked up to an oxygen machine at night, so I carefully placed the tubes in his nostrils before settling in the rocking chair next to that beautiful crib I had built and rocked him to sleep.

Lucien didn’t like to sleep without being held. So I held him all night.

The following morning, I had slept on and off, but not more than a few minutes here and there. Lucien

tubes, so I found myself pacing the nursery and gently bouncing

wasn’t expecting any visitors that day. Frankly,

everyone would stop giving me their fake condolences and would move on with their lives while I was left

Everyone cared during the funeral process, but afterwards,

left to fend on your


sympathies. I just wanted to be alone with

back into

that peace didn’t come. Because no sooner than six o’clock in the

front door.

expecting it to be a newspaper delivery person or a final straggler coming to bring me unnecessary

yet, a few minutes later, Hunter walked into the nursery. “Sir, there’s a visitor for

I held back

she wants to apply

applications were supposed to be submitted online, not in person. And

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