The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 249

Ella

A Luna Trial. Alexander was going to host a Luna Trial to replace me less than a month after my death.

The crowd went wild, cheers and applause turning into a din in the space. Meanwhile, my heart was cracking inside my chest. For a moment, when Alexander had been so gentle with me in the kitchen, I’d thought that maybe he did love me after all.

Maybe he was grieving me the same way Liam was. Maybe this whole week had been as hard for him as it had been for me.

But no. Here he was, barely a week after burying me, announcing to a room full of people that he was ready to find my replacement.

“Applications will be open starting tomorrow,” Alexander continued. “The trial will consist of several rounds of varying tasks, and the winner will become Luna of Ashclaw and adoptive mother to my heir.”

Adoptive mother. Some stranger was going to raise my son. Some stranger was going to take my place in Alexander’s bed, in his life, in everything that had once been mine, even if only for a little while.

My hands began to shake as the rage built up within me like a pot about to boil over. How dare he? How fucking dare he move on this quickly?

Before I could stop myself, I was pushing through the crowd toward the platform.

I had to tell him. I had to tell him the truth-

“Ella. No.” Lilith suddenly stepped in my way and grabbed my wrist. Her eyes were cold and fierce.

She dragged me out of the banquet hall before I could take another step further.

“Let go of me,” I hissed once we were in the hallway.

Lilith didn’t release my arm until we were safely in her room with the door locked, far away from any prying eyes or ears. Then she whirled on me with a fire in her gaze that I’d never seen before.

snapped. “You almost revealed yourself in front of an entire

did?” I shot back.

“Ella-”

of this? What if there really is no punishment for telling people who I am? What

That’s what

know that someone could die if I tell them the truth?” I bit out. “Have you ever tested it? Have you

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walked over to an old trunk at the end of the bed, opened it, and pulled out a manila folder. She

newspaper clippings inside. Old

SHOP OWNER DIES IN FREAK

According to employees and eye witnesses, Mr. Webb had been speaking with a customer when the accident occurred. The customer, who has not been identified, fled the scene before authorities

pretense of righteous anger slipping away from me as the implications set in. “Mom …?” I whispered in a

and I was trying to figure out what had happened to me. I found someone who had

I looked at the third clipping. “SHOP

faulty wiring, but investigators are puzzled by the rapid spread of the flames. Miss Webb

them the truth about who I was. I naively went to his daughter after his death and

still holding the clippings. “But that could have

more clippings. “Because there was a third person. Maxwell’s business partner. He died right after I

Three people. All dead within a

Lilith said. “It’s not just that we get a second chance at life. It’s that we have to stay dead to everyone from our

constricted. “But you don’t know for sure that it was because you

it.” Lilith’s voice was flat. “Five years later, I was lonely and depressed and desperate. I found another friend from my old life. I thought maybe the first

me another clipping. This one was from five years later. “TEACHER DIES IN SCHOOL FIRE.” “She died

people had died because Lilith