The Sickened Luna's Last Chance novel Chapter 247

Chapter 247

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Chapter 247

Ella & Alexander

Ella

My blood turned to ice in my veins as I turned to see Liam standing in front of me, saying my name. My real

name.

“I’m sorry,” Liam said, shaking his head and rubbing his temples. “I thought you were… Goddess, I must be losing my mind.”

My throat bobbed. “I… I’m sorry, do we know each other?”

The lie tasted bitter on my tongue. Of course we knew each other. I wanted to run to him and throw my arms around him and hold him close, but I couldn’t. And that was even more painful than I expected.

“No, we don’t,” Liam replied, but his eyes never left my face. He studied me with an intensity that made my skin prickle. “It’s just… you look exactly like someone I used to know. Someone who…” His face crumpled slightly. “Someone who died recently.”

My heart shattered into a thousand pieces right there in my chest.

“I’m so sorry for your loss,” I managed to choke out.

“Thank you.” Liam’s shoulders sagged, and for a moment, he looked so lost that I wanted nothing more than to tell him everything. Tell him that I was right here, that I wasn’t really dead, that he didn’t have to grieve for me.

But I couldn’t. The curse wouldn’t let me.

The very thought of what might happen to Liam if I revealed the truth made my stomach clench with fear. I’d already put one innocent person at risk–the farmer who’d helped me get home. I couldn’t bear the thought of Liam facing the same consequences.

“She was… she was my closest friend growing up,” Liam continued. “I should have seen her more, but you always think you have more time than you have…” He shook his head again. “I’m sorry. You don’t need to hear about my problems.”

“No, please,” I said quickly. “I… I understand what it’s like to lose someone important to you.”

That much was true, even if he didn’t know I was talking about myself.

Liam managed a sad smile. “You’re very kind. What did you say your name was?”

“Stella,” I replied. “Stella Night.”

“Stella.” He repeated my fake name slowly, as if testing it on his tongue. “You really do look remarkably like her. Even your voice… You’re not related to Ella, are you?”

“No,” I said quickly, perhaps a bit too quickly. Then, on a whim, I added, “But I did know her when we were children.”

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Liam’s eyes widened. “You knew Ella?”

This was dangerous territory, but there was no going back now. “I did,” I said, biting the inside of my cheek. We played together sometimes when our… packs had gatherings.”

“Really?” Liam stepped closer, his face lighting up with a smile. “Did she ever mention me?”

My heart cracked all over again at the desperate hope in his eyes. I shouldn’t have said anything, but seeing him like this made me want to say something. Anything.

“She did,” I said softly. “She talked about you often, actually.”

“Really?”

I nodded, blinking back tears. “She always said you were her closest friend. That you were the one person who truly understood her, who saw her for who she really was instead of what others expected her to be.”

Liam’s breath caught. “She said that?”

“More than once.” I bounced Lucien gently as he began to fuss, but my eyes never left Liam’s face. “She told me she never stopped thinking about you, not for even a single day. That she wished things could have been different.”

The tears in Liam’s eyes finally spilled over. He wiped them away quickly, but not before I saw them.

“Thank you,” he whispered. “You have no idea how much it means to hear that.”

Liam reached out as if to hug me, then seemed to remember himself and stepped back. “I should let you get back to your duties. Thank you, Stella. Truly. You’ve given me a gift tonight.”

I watched him walk away, my vision blurring with unshed tears. Letting him go like that might have been the hardest part of all of this.

But then Lucien began fussing more, pulling me back to the present. He was hungry, and I’d been standing here far too long already.

“Alright, little one,” I murmured, pressing a kiss to his forehead. “Let’s get you fed.”

Alexander

“The contracts should be finalized by the end of the week. The new trade agreements will benefit both our packs significantly.”

I nodded absently, only half–listening to the conversation between the two Alphas in front of me. My mind kept drifting to other matters–Lucien, the upcoming heir ceremony, the mountain of paperwork waiting for me back in my office.

And… her.

Ella. And the nanny who looked eerily like her.

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Stella had Ella’s face. Her build. Even her voice. There were small differences, like the hair and eye color, but she could have been Ella’s twin otherwise. It was weird and unsettling and filled my chest with a hope that shouldn’t have been there.

“Alexander?” A nudge on my shoulder pulled me out of my thoughts. “Did you hear what I said about the shipping routes?”

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