The Sickened Luna's Last Chance novel Chapter 43

Chapter 43

+25 BONUS

Chapter 43

He slid into bed beside me, taking care to stay on his side. Neither of us spoke for a long

moment.

Finally, I snapped my book shut. “Just so we’re clear,” I said, “I only kissed you because you weren’t doing anything to stop those journalists from asking too many questions.”

Alexander scoffed. “Right. And here I thought you just couldn’t resist me.”

“Don’t flatter yourself.” I set my book on the nightstand. “I hate kissing you. It was vile.”

“The feeling is mutual.”

“Well, at least we can agree on one thing.”

Alexander grunted and rolled over, turning his back to me. Within minutes, his breathing had evened out, indicating he was asleep or close to it

But I couldn’t sleep. I lay there for a long time, just staring up at the ceiling.

Only once I was certain he was asleep did I touch my lips again.

What if things had been different? What if Alexander had given us a real chance? What would our marriage have been like if he had actually loved me?

I couldn’t even begin to imagine it. Couldn’t fathom what it would feel like to have Alexander’s hands on my body, his lips on my skin, our bodies joining in the way nature intended for mates.

The thought made a warm pool of honey form low in my belly, a feeling that I knew all too well but had only acted on in the darkness of my old bedroom on the other side of the mansion, all by myself.

I was twenty-two years old and still a virgin. That fact was a humiliation that I kept buried deep inside. I’d been married for five years, and my husband had never once touched me-had never even kissed me until today, and that was just for show, and he wouldn’t have done it if 1

hadn’t done it first.

Most Lunas my age already had pups, little ones toddling around their feet or nursing at their breasts. They had mates who loved them, who marked them, who claimed them as their own.

I had a dormant wolf and a death sentence because my mate hated me.

What would I do when this was all over? When I was free?

I’d travel, I decided. I’d go to all the places I’d always wanted to see but never could because of my Luna duties. I’d wander through ancient streets and eat exotic foods and dance until my feet hurt.

1/2

Chapter 43

+25 BONUS

And I’d date. Goddess, I would date so many people.

Not seriously, not for a while, but casually. The way normal twenty-somethings did.

I’d go on coffee dates and movie dates and dinner dates. I’d kiss men who actually wanted to kiss me back. Maybe I’d even finally lose my virginity to someone who desired

me, who saw me as more than just a contract or a duty.

I’d be free. Free to live, free to breathe, free to be something other than the perfect Luna who never complained, never cried, never asked for anything for herself.

Nine months. That was all I had to endure. Nine more months of this man who didn’t want me. It felt interminable right now, but I knew I could do it. I had to.

Because on the other side of those nine months was life. Real life, on my own terms this time, and no one else’s. Not my father’s, not my stepmother’s, not Alexander’s, not Sophia’s, not even Liam’s.

Mine.

That thought brought a faint smile to my face as my eyelids grew heavy.

But in the last moments before I slipped off to sleep, my mind drifted back to that kiss, to the feeling of Alexander’s lips on mine, to the way my body had come alive in his arms.

And for a moment, just a moment, I couldn’t help but think that I had never felt more alive than in that moment when he had kissed me back

Today’s Bonus Offer

GET IT NOW

2/2