The Sickened Luna's Last Chance novel Chapter 301

Chapter 301

“Alright,” I said with a nod. “I’ll have Hunter track one down. I can’t promise we’ll find one quickly, or that they’ll be legitimate, but I’ll try.”

“Thank you.” Liam released my wrist and slumped back against his pillows. “I appreciate it more than you know.”

I nodded and turned to leave, but Liam called out one more time before I could reach the door.

“Alexander?”

“What’s up?”

around.

“Keep Stella close,” he said. “Even if she pushes you away, even if she acts like she doesn’t want you Keep her close. She might want to open up eventually, and when she does…” He paused, and there was that mysterious flicker in his gaze again. “You’ll be shocked when you find out what she has to say.”

The words sent a chill down my spine. What the hell did that mean? What could Stella possibly need to tell me that would be shocking?

But Liam had already closed his eyes, clearly exhausted from our conversation. I left without pressing for more information, figuring that the medication really was making him a bit loopy and that I probably shouldn’t dwell too much on… whatever the hell that was.

Still, as I walked down the hospital corridor, I pulled out my phone and texted my Beta. He was as confused as I was when I told him to track down a “reputable” witch, but he didn’t argue.

Once I was finished, I slipped my phone back into my pocket and stopped walking. I looked around in confusion, wondering how I had wound up where I currently found myself–standing in the entryway to the hospital cafeteria, which was in the complete opposite direction of the parking lot.

Shaking my head, I turned to leave, figuring I had taken a wrong turn while distracted on my phone. But then I spotted Stella sitting by herself near the window, nursing a steaming cup of crappy hospital coffee.

A single tear was glistening on her cheek. Or so I thought before she jerked her head up and spotted me and quickly wiped it away.

I considered leaving her alone, but she looked incredibly small and helpless and sad at the moment, and my mind couldn’t help but wander back to Liam’s warnings. Ramblings of a medicated man or not, right now, it seemed like he might have been onto something.

I couldn’t just leave her there looking like that, so I approached.

“May I?” I asked, gesturing to the seat across from her.

She hesitated, almost looking at me warily, but then nodded. I sat down in the plastic chair and neither of us spoke for a moment. If I looked at her for too long, then I would see Ella staring back at me–Ella, from the night of our date, close enough to kiss–so I kept my gaze trained on the curls of steam coming up from her coffee.

Finally, I cleared my throat and said, “Are you alright? You looked like you were crying just now.”

Chapter 301

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