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Author: Tai Kavari
last update publish date: 2026-06-15 23:59:36

ELLARIA

I 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
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  • 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    138.

    ELLARIA.Four years into the marriage, and I had seen it coming.I still wasn’t prepared for how much of my heart I had given to Arren Pierce without getting a part of his back.He was easy to love. That was the problem. He was kind to me. Gentle with me. Formal most of the time, yes, but never cruel and never truly cold. He held my hand sometimes—both in public when the role required it and in private when there was no audience to impress. Every three or four months, if we managed a quiet dinner, he would talk about his day in that low, measured way of his, offering small pieces of the weight he carried as if testing whether I could hold them. He had moved us out of the royal wing and into one of the larger packhouses on the edge of the grounds. I had never asked why. Something about the shift made the arrangement feel smaller, more contained, almost intimate. Two people sharing a large, quiet building instead of performing inside a palace that never slept. With the way he showed me,

  • His Contract Luna Says Goodbye    137.

    TEN YEARS AGOELLARIA.Three months in, life as Luna looked nothing like I had pictured.The duties themselves weren’t overwhelming. That was the strange part. I had expected the weight of the title to crush me in the first weeks—endless formal appearances, complicated protocols, decisions I had no business making. Instead the work arrived in steady, manageable pieces. Morning briefings with the household staff. Afternoon meetings about sector outreach and charitable programs. Evening dinners that required the right smile and the right words. None of it was beyond me once I understood the rhythm. What I hadn’t expected was how thoroughly involved I would be. How many small threads of the palace and the surrounding territories now ran through my hands. How rarely a day passed without someone needing a signature, an opinion, or simply my presence in a room.The first month Arren had been hands-on.He had guided me through the early council introductions himself. He had sat beside me dur

  • His Contract Luna Says Goodbye    136.

    ELLARIAOur wedding celebrations lasted seven full days.I learned that later from the staff. At the time it simply felt endless—a blur of music and formal dinners and the constant low roar of people who wanted to see the new king and his luna together. Every evening there was another feast or another ball. Every afternoon another procession through the palace grounds so the sector could catch a glimpse of us. Arren kept me close through all of it. His hand at the small of my back, his voice low against my ear when the noise got too thick, the steady presence of him turning what should have been overwhelming into something almost manageable.And then there were the nights.Those were different.The moment the doors of the royal chambers closed behind us the public version of us fell away. Arren became the man who had taken such careful time with me on our wedding night. He touched me like he had all the hours in the world. He learned the sounds I made and the places that made my breat

  • His Contract Luna Says Goodbye    135.

    ELLARIA “Are you hurting?” he asked eventually. His voice was low against the top of my head.“A little,” I admitted. “Not… bad. Just sore.”He made a soft sound of acknowledgment and pressed a kiss into my hair before shifting. “Stay here.”I watched him rise from the bed. The sight of him moving naked across the room still felt unreal. He disappeared into the adjoining bathroom. Water ran. When he came back he carried a basin and a clean cloth. He sat on the edge of the mattress and set everything within easy reach.“Lie back for me,” he said.I did.He cleaned me with the same careful attention he had given everything else tonight. The cloth was warm. His hands were steady. He worked slowly between my thighs, wiping away the evidence of what we had done without rushing or looking away when I tensed. When he finished he set the cloth aside and reached for a small jar of salve someone had left among the wedding-night preparations. He warmed a little between his fingers before applyi

  • His Contract Luna Says Goodbye    6.

    ELLARIA.He told me to stop making a fuss and walked away.Katerina at his side and the little boy trotting along between them, and the three of them moved down their path together like a unit, like something complete, like something that had existed long before I came into the picture and would ex

  • His Contract Luna Says Goodbye    5.

    ARREN.Kade came in and dropped into the chair across from my desk with the energy of a man who'd aged five years in the last two hours."Katerina's taken the boy in," he said. "He's down for the night.""Good."He looked like he had more to say about the evening's events. After something like the

  • 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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