The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 252

Alexander & Sophia

Alexander

I couldn’t sleep that night. The banquet had ended hours ago, but I was still in my office, nursing my third glass of bourbon. Maybe my fourth. I’d lost count by the time my head had grown fuzzy and the room had begun to spin.

Even still, I kept drinking long after I probably should have stopped. Dawn wasn’t far off, and yet my night was far from over.

Because Ella was dead. She was fucking dead, and I was hosting a Luna Trial to replace her like she’d never mattered at all.

The tug I’d felt on the mate bond earlier had nearly killed me. For one stupid moment, I’d thought… I’d thought that maybe she was alive somehow. Maybe there had been some mistake. Maybe she was coming back to me, spy

or not.

But it was just the nanny. Just some rogue who looked like my dead wife.

I had to go and fucking announce the Luna Trial that I never

side of the room. When she’d invited herself to drink with me, I’d been too lonely and exhausted to say no even though

about anyone,”

toward me, extending her hand. “Come on.

to pull me into a stumbling waltz for a few long moments before I finally managed to

“She’s not coming back, you


make the

the pain of the broken one that fate gave you. Besides, you never really wanted

I should have. Even when I found out she’d signed that contract with her father, I still wanted her. Because I

finally said, not bothering to

I hadn’t realized how close she was standing now. “You need someone who

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