تسجيل الدخولمشاركة
12.
تاريخ النشر:
2026-03-25 02:11:36
أحدث فصل
His Contract Luna Says Goodbye 27.
ELLARIAPacking wasn’t going to take much.I grabbed the nearest bag, filled it with some clothes and the things that were mine before any of this started. I moved through the bedroom quickly because stopping to think meant stopping to feel, and I done feeling things in this place.I had lived in this room for almost five years. I’d woken up in it thousands of times, made the bed in it, sat by that window when I couldn’t sleep, which had been most nights recently. I looked around it one last time and felt nothing that surprised me. It had never fully felt like mine. Even the things I had brought into it over the years sat in it like guests.I was zipping the bag closed when I heard her footsteps slowing down as she reached the doorway. Mirela looked heartbroken when I glanced up and met her gaze. She looked at the bag, then at me. She understood immediately, the way she always understood things about me before I said them, and my eyes were already burning before either of us spoke
His Contract Luna Says Goodbye 26.
ELLARIA.I didn’t go back to find Mirela.I walked straight out of the main hall and down the corridor toward Arren’s office without slowing down once. A week.He had known for a full week and said nothing, and I was done waiting for him to decide when I was ready to hear the truth.The office door was unlocked. I pushed it open, not caring who or what I was interrupting in the process. I stopped cold at the sight of his desk. It was the first thing I saw. My footsteps faltered in an instant as I stared at the items on it. There was a scarf on it, worn and folded so carefully, a deep shade of blue my hands remembered before my brain caught up. There was a jewelry set right beside it, I’d recognize that set from anywhere because it sat in the very chest that was on Arren’s table. I remembered that wooden chest from my childhood vividly. A few other things were scattered around them, specifically things I knew belonged to someone dear to me. They were my mother’s things. My hands
His Contract Luna Says Goodbye 25.
ELLARIA.Arren had disappeared somewhere between the third and fourth round of formal greetings.I’d watched him head out with a group of Alphas, all of them moving with the energy of men who had just found a good reason like a necessary meeting to leave, and I didn’t blame him. I’d have done the same.But I couldn’t, so Mirela and I walked the event instead, gossiping through our teeth about every single overly dressed, high ranking member of werewolf society we laid our eyes on. She had colorful little opinions about everything. The centerpieces were trying too hard. The string quartet was playing something depressing for what was supposed to be a celebration. One of the elder wolves from the northern territory was wearing a hat that she felt strongly needed to be discussed at length, and at some point I had stopped listening properly and just started nodding, which she either didn’t notice or graciously pretended not to.A couple minutes into our banter, I was laughing at someth
His Contract Luna Says Goodbye 24.
ELLARIA.The ceremony was exactly what I expected and nothing I needed.Every surface was draped in something expensive. Every person in the room was wearing something that cost more than most wolves earned in a month, and everyone understood the assignment even though nobody acknowledged that out loud.This was werewolf high society.The giltz and glamour of it all was choking.I was very good at performing by now. At least there was that.Mirela had disappeared toward the drinks table about ten minutes ago, which I couldn't hold against her because the drinks table was genuinely the most interesting thing in this room. I stayed at Arren’s side, close enough that we looked the part and far enough that nothing about it felt real.We did the greetings, although there were a few people I didn’t recognize, like the broad older Alpha from a territory in the west who had known Arren’s father and kept looking at me like he was trying to work something out. It was annoying.After that we me
His Contract Luna Says Goodbye 23.
ARREN.She opened her eyes and found me there.I was still on the sofa with the dead rose between my fingers, and for a moment she just looked at me.Not with surprise exactly. More like she'd half-expected this and was deciding what to do with my presence.Then she sat up slowly, pushing her hair back from her face, as she looked at me properly. "Stop sending me things," she said tightly.I set the rose down.The word okay sat in my mouth and I let it out quietly. That was all I said, because there wasn't anything else that would have helped.She was right.The gifts had been a way of doing something when I didn't know how to do the actual thing she’d needed.She'd seen through that, and she’d left every single one of them untouched.She looked at me for a moment longer. Then she lay back down and turned toward the wall.I stayed on the sofa.This was the first time I'd been in the same room as her in two weeks.I’d been surviving on two weeks of guard reports and secondhand updates
His Contract Luna Says Goodbye 22.
ARREN.She was already asleep when I got home.I stood in the doorway of her room for longer than I needed to, just watching her.She was on laying on her side with her hands pressed together under her cheek.She'd been crying before she fell asleep.Her cheeks were reddened and tear stained.I looked at that for a while, feeling my chest tightening as my eyes trailed over the tracks.Then I looked around the room.Every single thing I'd sent was as sent.Untouched.The boxes unopened. The flowers in their wrapping. One bouquet had started dying on the dresser, the petals going soft at the edges.She hadn’t thrown it out. She'd just let it sit and go to waste, which felt, somehow, more pointed than if she'd put it in the bin.I sat down on the sofa at the foot of her bed.I reached over and picked up the dying bouquet, pulling one rose out and turning it between my fingers. The petals were almost gone.Whatever I was sitting with right now, I deserved it.My gaze trailed over her form
قد تعجبك أيضًا
A Gift from the Goddess
Dawn Rosewood1.7M وجهات النظرMy Hockey Alpha
Eve Above Story2.2M وجهات النظرThe Pure-Hearted Princess and the Kiss of Darkness
Moonlight Muse722.1K وجهات النظرAlpha Loren
Elle A. H.597.2K وجهات النظرCult of the Crescent Curse
Lacaya214 وجهات النظرFALLING FOR THE HOCKEY PLAYER (WHILE OVERSIZED)
Rach's pen200 وجهات النظرBreed Me, Alpha King
Isabella Raven458 وجهات النظرMY STEPBROTHERS, MY RUIN
Itz_Chloe380 وجهات النظر
