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His Contract Luna Says Goodbye 144.
ARRENI should have left after the last of the pasta.That was the plan. Eat. Keep the conversation light. Get back in the car and deal with the three things still waiting on my desk. Instead I sat there longer than I meant to, watching Ellaria finish her wine and push a roller that had come loose back into place with the side of her hand. The kitchen was warm. The house was quiet in the way it only got when neither of us was performing for anyone. I didn’t want to stand up.That was the problem.“I should go,” I said finally.She looked up from her glass. “Already?”“Work.”“You always have work.”“That’s because there’s always work.”She studied me for a second. Then she set the glass down and stood, gathering the plates before I could offer. I watched her move around the kitchen in that pink robe and those ridiculous slippers, and the reluctance in my chest only got heavier.I stood anyway. Pushed the chair in. Walked toward the foyer because that was the responsible thing to do. M
His Contract Luna Says Goodbye 143.
ARREN.I sat in the car outside my own house for four full minutes before I got out.That was a new low, even for me.There were three things on my schedule tonight that I was supposed to be doing instead of this. A trade summary for the northern border. A call with the southern Alpha that Kade had already pushed back twice. A stack of council requests on my desk that would still be there in the morning, probably multiplying.Usually I called ahead. That was how Ellaria and I worked. If I wanted dinner, I rang her in the afternoon and gave her a time, and she said all right in that soft, easy voice of hers. Then half the time I called back two hours later to cancel.I'd been an ass about it for years. She never once complained, which somehow made it worse.Lately I'd stopped making plans at all. It seemed kinder than breaking them.Tonight I hadn't called. I'd walked out of a meeting twenty minutes early, told Kade to handle the rest, and driven here with my jaw tight and no real expl
His Contract Luna Says Goodbye 142
ARREN.I sat in my office with the door shut and the afternoon light cutting across the desk, and I still couldn’t get the kid’s face out of my head.Dalor.I’d spent almost two hours with him yesterday. Not interrogating. Not testing. Just sitting in that small clinic room while he showed me drawing after drawing and talked about some kingdom he’d made up, complete with the fastest horse that had ever lived and a set of rules that only made sense if you were five. He had my eyes. Not close. Not similar enough to shrug off. The same grey-blue. The same shape. Looking back at me from a child’s face like it was the most ordinary thing in the world.After my father died, things had been hard in a way I never bothered putting language to. I’d watched him suffer for reasons no one could name. The decline had been slow, then sudden, and then it was over. Case closed. Records filed. Everyone else moved on because that was what you were supposed to do. I never could. Not the man. Not the way
His Contract Luna Says Goodbye 141.
ARREN.The council meeting ran forty minutes over schedule.Not unusual. The northern territory dispute had a way of expanding to fill whatever time was available and today it had taken all of it and then some. By the time the room cleared I was at the window with Kade going through follow up items."The border assessment needs to be scheduled before the end of the month," Kade said, phone out, moving through his notes. "And the supply chain review that got pushed from last week.""Schedule both," I said. "Back to back.""It'll make for a long day.""It already is."He made a note. "Anything else before I send confirmations?"My phone rang.Unknown number. Eastern sector prefix but nothing in my contacts. I held up a hand to Kade and answered."Pierce," I said.A pause.Then, "Arren." Katerina's voice came through the line soft and careful and completely unmistakable. "It's me."I said nothing.Kade read my face and moved toward the door without being asked."Katerina," I said."I kno
His Contract Luna Says Goodbye 140.
ELLARIA.“Yes,” I said.Arren didn’t make me wait.He kissed me once more—deep and claiming—while he reached between us and guided himself to where I was still slick and open from his mouth. The blunt head of him pressed against me, and even after three orgasms my body tensed at the size of him. He felt it. He always did. His free hand stroked once along my thigh, steadying, and then he pushed in with that same controlled patience he used when he wanted me to feel every inch.The stretch pulled a broken sound from my throat.“Breathe,” he murmured against my mouth. “That’s it. Let me in.”I did. He sank deeper in slow increments, filling me with a thoroughness that made my back arch and my hands fist in the sheets. When he finally seated himself completely he held still, forehead resting against mine, giving my body time to adjust around him. I could feel the tension in his arms, the careful restraint it cost him not to move yet.“You take me so well,” he said, voice rough. “Every tim
His Contract Luna Says Goodbye 139.
ELLARIA.The drive home felt longer than usual.Arren kept one hand on the wheel and the other resting against my thigh, thumb tracing slow, absent circles through the fabric of my dress. He didn’t speak. Neither did I. The silence between us was thick with everything that had been promised outside the restaurant and everything that always waited for us once the packhouse door closed. My pulse had been elevated since he leaned in and told me the birthday wind-down was about to begin. By the time he turned into our driveway, it was a steady, insistent beat under my skin.He parked. Cut the engine. Came around to open my door like he always did on the rare evenings he decided to be thoroughly present. I stepped out into the cool night air, and his hand found the small of my back again, guiding me up the steps and into the house.The moment the front door shut behind us, the air changed.Arren didn’t turn on the main lights. He locked the door with a quiet click, shrugged out of his suit
His Contract Luna Says Goodbye 4.
ELLARIA.“Then you can say goodbye to your job.” His jaw tightened.I'd given my all to this hospital, and he knew it.I had no wolf and none of the healing abilities the other doctors possessed. All I had was myself, and the skills I had forced into my bones over the years, once I realized the wor
His Contract Luna Says Goodbye 3.
ELLARIA.My heart slammed against my ribs. But Arren barely glanced at it before tossing it onto the side table."Don't bring patient files home, Ellaria. You know the rules."The paper slipped off the table and scattered across the floor.The front door closed behind him and a few seconds later I
His Contract Luna Says Goodbye 2.
ELLARIA.He was standing on the front porch with his back to me, one hand pressed against his ear, his voice so soft I almost didn't recognize it."Hey, hey. Calm down. Tell me what's wrong."I stood frozen in the doorway, watching him speak to another woman in a voice he had never once used with m
His Contract Luna Says Goodbye 1.
ELLARIA.My Alpha forced me to sign a marriage contract: no love, no children.He didn’t know I had fallen in love with him at first sight. And now, with only three months left until our contract expired, I was pregnant.***“Luna! You’re having twins!” the doctor exclaimed.The two tiny, beating h
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