The Sickened Luna's Last Chance novel Chapter 21

Chapter 21

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Chapter 21

Ella

I couldn’t speak as I looked up into those familia green eyes. Alexander smelled like his usual scent combined with fresh sweat and earth, but there was something else there, too-the coppery scent of dried blood.

Was he injured? Was I injured?

I didn’t have time to dwell on it before Liam, standing behind me and dusting the hay off hist shirt, said, “What the hell happened?”

Alexander’s face, which had momentarily been a mask of shock and maybe even a hint of relief, hardened. He set me down. I was glad to find that my legs were indeed not broken; there wasn’t even a scratch on me.

“I was just wondering the same thing,” he said, glancing first at me, then at Liam, then up- toward the open hay door I had just fallen out of

Liam opened his mouth to say something, but was quickly cut off by a shrill scream.

“Ella! Oh, Goddess, Ella! Are you alright?”

We all turned to see Sophia running around the corner of the barn, her hair disheveled and her eyes wide. She’d gone pale and was out of breath from having climbed down the barn ladder and run over in a rush.

“Did she push you, Ella?” Liam pointed at Sophia His eyes were practically red with rage.

I turned to her, looking her up and down. She certainly seemed surprised-and although we never got along, she had never done anything so heinous as to try to injure me before.

But my suspicions remained.

“I felt something shove my back,” I said slowly, deliberately. “Sophia was the only other one up there with me, and I doubt the cows know how to climb a ladder.”

Sophia’s eyes began to water as she clutched at her pearl necklace. “I would never do such a thing!” she cried out. She whirled toward Alexander. “Alex, you have to tell them! You know me! I wouldn’t-”

“Enough.” Alexander held up his hand, and it was then that I noticed he was indeed covered in blood-most of it not his own. It was caked in his hair, his eyebrows, trailing down his neck as if it had sprayed down on top of his head.

It must have been an intense battle, and a small art of me couldn’t help but feel relieved that he had walked out of it alive.

Sophia made a little sound of worry and began winging her hands.

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Chapter 21

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Alexander then said in a surprisingly calm and even voice, “Sophia, did you push Ella?”

Sophia sputtered. “No! Absolutely not. It was an accident. The wind caught her dress-I saw it.”

I narrowed my eyes. The wind… It had felt like two warm hands shoving against my lower back. Unless the wind could suddenly grow hands…

“She’s lying,” Liam said, his voice taking on a dark edge as he turned to Alexander. “She pushed your mate, Alpha. With intention to harm, if not kill. What are you going to do about it?”

Alexander glanced at Liam, and I could practically hear the gears whirring in his head.

Obviously, he had to act appropriately in front of the Board. They were all watching now—a small crowd had gathered around us.

But Alexander would never suspect his darling Sophia of such a crime.

In his eyes, she was as innocent as a lamb. And those crocodile tears she was crying only further served to exonerate her.

It was moments like this that had sent my wolf into her sorrowful slumber.

My fated mate wouldn’t stand by me. He would always trust others more than he trusted me, especially when it came to Sophia.

The very thought made my heart turn bitter and black. Maybe once, I would have stepped down and let Sophia get away with something like this. But not now. Not when my very life was on the line in more ways than one.

“She did push me,” I said firmly. I turned to Alexander and looked at him. Only him. “I felt her hands on my back. She was the one who suggested we go into the hayloft, and she pushed me.

Green eyes blinked at me from behind a blood-spattered face. For a moment, there was no sound save for Sophia’s soft whimpers and the gentle breeze blowing through the treetops. Enough to knock over a pitcher of iced tea, perhaps, but an entire person?

Highly unlikely.

And Alexander knew it.

After a long moment, Alexander turned to Sophia I half expected him to set her free, but surprisingly, he gestured for one of the pack guards to come over.

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