The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 304

Frankly, at the moment, I wasn’t sure if I believed her. But I nodded anyway..

Around dinnertime, the buzz still hadn’t ebbed away. I took my dinner of bread and cheese and apple slices to the library, not only to continue my futile research for Liam’s sake, but also to stay away from the gossipping

staff.

However, by now, my constant visits to the library weren’t going unnoticed. Just about everyone knew they could find me there when I wasn’t busy with Lucien, and it wasn’t long before Anya rounded the nearest shelf, wringing her hands nervously.

“Stella, can we talk?”

I snapped the book shut that I was reading and shoved it behind me before she could see that it was a text on ancient blood rituals. “Sure. Is everything alright?”

Anya sat down in the chair next to me and hesitated for a moment before whispering, “I heard about what happened at the restaurant today. With the pack members thinking you and Alexander were…‘

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misunderstanding. Alexander just wanted to thank me for

not… I mean, you and he aren’t…” Anya trailed off, her cheeks turning pink. “I mean, I’m not interested in him in that way, but I still have to ask, since he’s going to make me

lie tasted like ash in my mouth. Or was it a lie? Our relationship was professional, because it

half true. Perhaps I still loved Alexander, but nothing could ever happen between us again. Not unless I found a cure for this

smiling conspiratorially. “Is it because you have another secret

could finish. “No, Liam and

looked a little disappointed. “You really don’t have anyone? But you’re so

how to answer that, so

furrowed her brow. “Have

made my cheeks burn ten times over. Of course I had been in love–stupidly. I’d fallen hard and fast for Alexander, my mate, and then fallen out of it. And then I fell again, only even harder than the first

And now…

fallen for him all

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was no possible way for me to

I finally said. “I loved a man