The Sickened Luna's Last Chance novel Chapter 227

Chapter 227

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Chapter 227

Ella

My eyes snapped open and I sat bolt upright with a gasp, clutching at my chest.

My… bare chest.

I frowned, blinking. As my surroundings came back into focus, I realized with a start that I was no longer laying in the guest bed in Sophia’s home, but rather on the ground in a forest. My clothes had been completely stripped, leaving me nude and vulnerable in the middle of nowhere.

Sophia had double–crossed me. What a fool I was, thinking that she had had a change of heart! If I hadn’t been so consumed by labor, then I would have known-

Wait. Labor.

My son. I needed to know where he was, if he was safe–and Lilith, too. I had to find them.

Surprisingly, my body felt nimble and free of pain as I leapt to my feet and looked around, trying to collect my bearings. Only my wolf felt a little groggy when I reached deep down within myself in search of her presence.

“I’m here,” she croaked, sounding as if she’d just woken from another dormant state. “I just feel… funny…”

I bit back a curse as I turned this way and that in search of a familiar tree or landmark. Unfortunately, all that stretched around me was untrodden forest.

“She must have drugged me,” I said, finding north based on the sun’s position and heading in that direction. Ashclaw, where my son likely was, was that way.

“Hmm… Maybe.” My wolf yawned and stretched. “I’ll just need some time before I can lend you my

strength.”

“Take all the time you need. I feel plenty strong now, surprisingly.” I looked down at my hands as I walked, finding myself clean and free of blood or dirt. Strange, because the last thing I remembered was blood gushing out from between my legs.

My belly was flat, too, which was also odd. A pregnant belly rarely went down this quickly, not to mention the fact that I was free of the stretch marks I’d grown throughout the pregnancy. Perhaps whatever drug Sophia had given me had put me into a sort of stasis where my wolf’s healing abilities were inadvertently enhanced.

But there was no time for speculating on my condition. My son could be in danger, and I had to get to him before it was too late.

I picked up my pace after that until I was all–out running through the forest, trees and boulders rushing

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by me on either side. Soon, I arrived at the edge of the treeline, where a large farmer’s cornfield lay beyond. I saw a house sitting off in the distance and set my sights on it.

I began carefully working my way through the rows of corn. Surely someone would help me, give me a ride back to Ashclaw. For all I knew, I was already marked as missing by now. Maybe Alexander was

looking for me.

Alexander.

His name filled me with a strange mixture of hope and dread. I was almost certain now that Sophia had been lying when she told me about Alexander’s intentions, but I couldn’t be entirely sure. And then, of course, there was the matter of him locking me up in that house.

What if he still thought I was a spy? What if he wouldn’t let me see my son when I returned and just locked me up again?

The very thought made my fists clench with rage.

“Hey! You there! Show yourself!”

I looked up to see an old man in overalls stepping out onto the front porch of the house and raising the barrel of a shotgun. Cursing under my breath, I held my hands up and walked out of the cornfield.

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