The Sickened Luna's Last Chance novel Chapter 76

Chapter 76

Ella & Alexander

Ella

I screamed and lunged for the nearest blanket, yanking it off the bed and wrapping it around myself. But it was too late-Gabriel had already seen everything. Every inch of black lace. Every exposed bit of skin. And there was a lot of that.

“Get out!” I shrieked, clutching the blanket to my chest. “What the hell are you doing in here?”

But Gabriel didn’t leave. Instead, he took a step into the room.

“I should be the one asking you what you’re doing,” he growled.

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

Gabriel sneered. “Don’t play innocent, Ella. You’re trying to seduce him, aren’t you? Trying to get knocked up so he’s forever bound to you? Or are you just hoping he’ll be stupid enough to mark you?”

I blinked, my shock and humiliation momentarily replaced with confusion. Was that what he thought? That I had ordered fancy lingerie to seduce Alexander and get pregnant? And more importantly, why did Gabriel even care?

“So what if I am?” I shot back, lifting my chin defiantly. “He’s my husband. My mate. What business is it of yours what happens in our bedroom?”

Gabriel’s face blanched. Clearly, he hadn’t expected me to own up to it. Of course, I hadn’t actually ordered the lingerie, but that didn’t matter. Seeing him so disturbed by the thought filled me with a sense of satisfaction.

“You think he’ll fall for it?” Gabriel scoffed after a moment, regaining his composure. Alexander’s smarter than that. He knows exactly what you are.”

“And what am I, exactly?”

“A manipulator who’s using her body to get what she wants. A whore.”

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“You’re disgusting,” I growled. “And frankly, I don’t care what you think of me. Get. Out.

I didn’t even mean to use my Luna Voice that time-it just slipped out, as if it became more natural to me each time I used it. Gabriel’s spine straightened, and he immediately turned to leave.

But before he could get far, the door swung open again, the sunlight in the hallway illuminating an all-too-familiar figure.

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Chapter 76

Alexander.

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He froze, staring at the scene. Green eyes first flicked to me, wrapped in a blanket with my face as red as a cherry, then to the box overflowing with lingerie sitting by my feet, and finally at his Beta, who had clearly seen… everything.

I opened my mouth to explain what had happened, but Alexander began to speak first. He nodded toward the box, and his voice was eerily calm. “I hope you’re not planning to wear those around the house.”

The mortification was almost too much to bear. I couldn’t take it anymore.

“Both of you, out!” I shouted, storming toward them with the blanket clutched around me. Now!”

I shoved them both into the hallway with one hand, using the other to keep the blanket in place. Before either could protest, I slammed the door and locked it.

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Alexander

“She was wearing lingerie,” Gabriel whispered as we moved away from the bedroom door. Trying it on. Black lace.”

I didn’t need the reminder. The image of Ella’s red face, her bare shoulders visible over the top of that blanket, the box of lace and silk sitting beside her… it was already burned into my brain.

“In private,” I growled, pushing Gabriel toward my study. “Not here.”

Once we were safely behind closed doors, Gabriel continued, “She’s trying to seduce you, Alpha. I found her trying on lingerie-expensive stuff, too. You need to be careful. She might even try to get pregnant.”

The thought of Ella wearing something like that made my wolf surge with excitement. It took everything I had to keep my feet rooted to the spot so I wouldn’t run to her and see for myself.

But mixed with that desire was something else-hot, dark, dangerous fury that Gabriel had seen her that way. That he had witnessed something meant only for me.

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