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ELLARIA.

Caden had picked a quiet restaurant on the edge of the eastern sector.

It was a small place with warm lighting. The kind of spot where you could hear yourself think without trying.

We’d been seated for maybe ten minutes and neither of us had said much of anything.

The menus were open in front of us but I wasn’t really reading mine.

The past few days had left something unsettled between us and we were both feeling around the edges of it without knowing how to begin.

“The soup here is go
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  • His Contract Luna Says Goodbye    88.

    ELLARIAI wiped my face as I walked and hated myself for every tear.I asked myself the question I'd been avoiding since the moment I agreed to come back here.Was this a mistake?Coming back. Agreeing to help him. Did my need to save lives mean I shouldn't save myself?I knew I was strong. I'd been forced to be. It hadn't happened overnight either. It took time and hard work and effort and a hundred sleepless nights where I turned in bed tormented by every memory. Every time I'd cried over him. Every time I'd missed my mother. Every time I'd wished I'd never followed Arren to that refugee camp after he saved me in that forest.Was it dramatic? Maybe.But that was the truth about heartbreak. Overcoming it took work. It took years. And I had done those years. I had put in every single one of them.And I let myself exist in the same space as him again for what?A good cause?His people were still dying. I was barely making progress. And I'd already lost about a year of my new self just

  • His Contract Luna Says Goodbye    87.

    ELLARIA.Katerina’s hand flew to her cheek.She stared at the ground for a moment. Then she lifted her eyes to mine and her voice came out low and vicious.“You bitch.”I turned to Tatum.He was looking up at me with wide eyes that had gone a little frightened around the edges and it took everything in me to soften my face when I looked at him.I touched his cheek with my palm. “Go back to the house,” I said. Quietly. Firmly. “Go straight there. I’ll be right behind you.”He looked between me and Katerina.“Tate.” I held his gaze. “Go.”He pulled away from my hand and nodded once. A small shaky movement. Then he turned and started back the way we’d come without another word.I watched him go until he’d rounded the corner.Then I turned back to Katerina.She’d dropped her hand from her cheek and was standing straight with her eyes on me and something burning behind them.“I will gouge your eyes out if you take one step closer to me.” Her voice was tight. Controlled. “I said nothing but

  • His Contract Luna Says Goodbye    86.

    85.ELLARIA.My chest tightened the moment Katerina’s eyes met mine.Tatum’s new friend was Katerina’s son.The freaking irony of it sat in my chest like something I couldn’t dislodge.I watched Tate bound up the porch steps and throw himself against Katerina’s side in a hug like he’d known her for years. He pointed back at me with his whole arm.“That’s my mom! She’s been working at the hospital like I told you but she’s here now!”Katerina laughed and ruffled his hair with a gentleness that looked effortless and warm and maternal and everything I knew she wasn’t. “I do know your mother,” she said, letting her words carry loud enough to reach me. “I’ve known her for a very long time.”Dalor came down the steps toward me.He stopped in front of me and looked up with a small uncertain smile. “I think I remember you.” He tilted his head. “You’re that lady who used to follow my dad around a lot.”I kept my expression exactly where it was and smiled at him.He wasn’t wrong.I had followed

  • His Contract Luna Says Goodbye    85.

    ELLARIA.I snapped at one of the nurses at eleven in the morning.She’d asked me a perfectly reasonable question about a patient’s chart and I’d responded with something that came out sharper than I’d intended and the look on her face told me exactly how it had landed.I apologized immediately and meant it. She nodded and moved on and I stood in the hallway afterward and pressed my fingers to my eyes and told myself to get it together.I was in a mood and had been for two days.Arren had shut the council room door in my face and gone completely silent since.It’s been forty eight hours of nothing. None of my calls returned. No of my messages acknowledged. No indication that he was even aware I existed except for the fact that his enforcer had confirmed the trip was still happening tomorrow.Tomorrow.We were leaving tomorrow and I still didn’t know if Caden was coming. Arren had quietly rescinded whatever reluctant agreement he’d landed on before walking out. I couldn’t freaking cal

  • His Contract Luna Says Goodbye    84.

    ELLARIA.Kade's response was immediate."No." He set his pen down flat on the table. "Caden Wolfe doesn't have clearance. This is pack safety we're talking about and that overrides what you want.""I want him there," I said."I heard you the first time." Kade's voice was firm. "The answer is still no."I looked down the table at Arren.He'd been watching me since the words left my mouth. Hadn't moved. Hadn't said anything. Just sitting there with his arms folded and his eyes on my face in that way he had of looking at someone like he was working through something privately."You've been quiet," I said to him. "Any objections?"He held my gaze for a moment.Then one shoulder lifted in a slow shrug. "If he would make you feel more safe," he said, "then maybe I can understand your need for him there."Kade turned to look at Arren like he'd just said something in a language he didn't recognize."It's not about safety," I said.Arren's eyes came back to mine. "Then it's about what?""Havin

  • His Contract Luna Says Goodbye    45.

    ELLARIA. Tatum’s face crumpled the moment I told him. “Two days?” His voice came out small. “But that’s so long.” I crouched down in front of him and smoothed his hair back. “I know, baby. But it’s important. I need to help some people who are sick.” “You’re always helping sick people.” His bot

  • His Contract Luna Says Goodbye    44.

    ARREN.The council room was packed.More people than the space was designed to hold. Healers lined the walls. Doctors stood near the back. Council members filled the chairs around the table.And everyone was talking at once.I sat at the head of the table and listened to voices overlapping. Accusat

  • His Contract Luna Says Goodbye    43.

    ARREN.I was in a meeting with the supply coordinators when Kade walked in.I took one look at his face and knew something had gone wrong.He caught my eye and tilted his head toward the door.I stood up. “We’ll finish this later.”The coordinators nodded and started gathering their papers. I follo

  • His Contract Luna Says Goodbye    42.

    ELLARIA.The hospital was quieter than it had been when I first arrived.I walked through the main ward with a clipboard in my hands and checked patient charts as I went. Most of the readings were stable. Some were even improving.It felt like progress.After seven days of treatments we were finall

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