The Sickened Luna's Last Chance novel Chapter 67

Chapter 67

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Chapter 67

“I would never-”

“Enough.” I held up a hand, silencing her. “I don’t want to hear it. I came here tonight because, despite everything, you’re still my friend and I didn’t want to see you hurt. But this stops now.”

Sophia’s lower lip trembled. “What do you mean?”

“I mean that I won’t take this anymore. Either you get your emotions in check and start behaving like the adult you’re supposed to be, or we’re no longer friends.”

She gasped. “You don’t mean that.”

“I do.” I checked my watch. If I left now, I might still make it to the party in time to join Ella. Hopefully my suit would dry on the way there. “And if you ever pull a stunt like this again, I’ll have you institutionalized for your own safety. Understood?”

Sophia stared at me in shock. For once, she seemed to have no words. Maybe that was for the best.

“I’m leaving now,” I said, turning on my heel. “I have an event to attend with my wife,”

I didn’t wait for her response, nor did I pause to think about how satisfying it felt to refer to Ella as my mate and wife in the same breath.

Sophia

Sophia could hear the front door slamming, then the sound of Alex’s car starting up outside.

He was leaving. Actually leaving. To go to that party with her.

This wasn’t how it was supposed to go. Alex was supposed to stay, to comfort her, to realize how much she needed him. Instead, he’d seen right through her act and threatened to end their friendship.

Friendship. As if that was all she wanted from him.

The bedroom door opened a moment later, and her parents slipped inside. There was a moment of silence. Sophia sank down onto the edge of her bed and dragged her hands through her damp hair.

“He’s gone,” John said with a grunt of disapproval. “That ungrateful pup…”

Sophia looked up at her parents. “What do we do now? If that didn’t work, what else will?”

Her parents exchanged a look. Finally, Helen stepped forward and took a seat beside Sophia.

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Sophia rested her head on her mother’s shoulders her mother rubbed soothing circles on her

back.

“We’re concerned,” Helen said slowly, “that Alexander might be developing… feelings for this girl.”

“No.” Sophia shook her head violently. “No, that’s not possible. She’s just a contract to him. A mate that he never really wanted;”

“Perhaps,” John sighed. “But the way he rushed out of here to get to her certainly suggests otherwise, doesn’t it?”

Sophia felt sick. The thought of Alex actually falling for that Stormhollow bitch was

unbearable. After everything Sophia had done to get rid of her, Ella was still there, still a thorn

in her side.

But no matter how much it hurt, Sophia knew her parents were right. Even if Alex never really loved Ella, she was still his mate, and lately, he had been forced to spend more time with her because of the media storm-a storm that should have broken them up already, but for some reason, they insisted on holding onto each other.

Mates could rarely deny their biological pull toward one another, especially when they were spending so much time together, acting like the perfect, loving couple in public. It was only a matter of time before Alex and Ella became too close to be separated.

No, Sophia and her parents would have to figure something else out. But what?

“I think,” Helen said carefully, as if reading her daughter’s mind, “that we’ve had enough of messing around. These small attempts at breaking them up clearly aren’t working.”

John nodded, “We need something bigger. Something that will drive a permanent wedge between them.”

Sophia looked between her parents. “What do you have in mind?”

“Don’t worry about that now,” her father said, standing and moving to the window to watch Alex’s car disappear down the driveway. “We’ll contact the media right away with an even bigger story than before. One that they won’t be able to smooth over with fake kisses and movie dates.”

“By the time we’re done,” Helen added a cold simile playing at her lips, “that girl will be so thoroughly disgraced that Alexander wouldn’t dare keep her as his Luna, campaign or no campaign.”

Sophia couldn’t help but smile. Her parents had always taken care of her, had always given her everything she wanted.

And what she wanted more than anything was Alex.

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She crossed the room to join her father at the window, watching the taillights of Alex’s car fade into the distance. Then she turned and kissed her father’s cheek.

“Thank you, Daddy.”

John Oxford smiled and put his arm around her shoulders. “Anything for my little girl.”

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