The Sickened Luna's Last Chance novel Chapter 221

Ella

“At midnight, the esteemed Stormhollow Alpha manor went up in flames,” the newspaper article read. Detectives are still investigating the cause of the unexpected fire, but current evidence suggests that it was a freak accident caused by a faulty chimney flue. Thankfully there were no casualties, although nothing remains of the house itself.”

My breakfast sat in a heap in front of me, tea having spilled across the tray and soaking the bread when

the cup

had slipped from my fingers. Broken shards of porcelain littered the table, but I hardly noticed.

My childhood home had been destroyed.

Along with everything inside of it.

Likely along with the trunk of my mother’s possessions in the basement.

Everything I had of her was probably gone, burned up in a “freak” overnight fire that completely

demolished the entire place I had once called home.

My hands shook as I read the article over and over again, as if rereading the words countless times might change them. But what was done was done. All of those memories, everything that I once held dear… Was now simply ash in the wind.

Suddenly, something small fell out of the newspaper. I didn’t notice it at first, too focused on the words blurring before me on the page, but spotted it when it fell into my lap. It was a small note written in

familiar script.

“If you want to get out, put a candle in your window. -Lilith”

Lilith. Dear, sweet Lilith–she was disobeying Alexander’s orders against communicating with me. She must have seen the article and sent the newspaper, along with her note, to warn me.

It was risky to consider breaking out, but I had no way of contacting Alexander without my phone and I was pretty sure he wasn’t even home, which meant that it could be hours before the guard outside my room relayed my message to him.

I had to see my childhood home. Even if only for a few minutes, to see if the trunk of my mother’s belongings had somehow survived the fire.

A few minutes later, I had a candle burning in my window. Within ten minutes, there was a soft knock on my door and the sound of the key turning in the lock. Lilith found me standing there in dark jeans and a sweater with my hair pulled back, something nondescript to quickly travel in.

“I told the guard there was an incident in the west wing,” Lilith whispered, quickly ushering me out of the room and locking the door behind us as if I were still inside. “He’ll be back shortly, but we have enough

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time to slip out.”

I nodded and followed Lilith quickly through the servants‘ quarters. Thankfully, everyone was busy

elsewhere, so we were able to slip out the back door and into the forest without being seen.

In wolf form, we hurriedly loped through the forest–taking a car was too risky. It took longer than I would

have liked to travel all the way to Stormhollow on foot, but eventually, the scent of smoke burned my

nostrils and I knew we were close.

When we came upon the destruction that was once my family’s home, the devastation was so great that I

immediately shifted back to human form and dropped to my knees.

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