Semua Bab His Contract Luna Says Goodbye : Bab 81 - Bab 90

ELLARIA.I smelled it before I even had the door fully open. Something warm and rich and deeply savory that reached me on the front step and made my stomach respond in a way that reminded me I hadn’t eaten a proper meal since yesterday morning.I pushed the door open the rest of the way. “Mirela!” I dropped my bag on the floor. “Whatever that is it’s going to be amazing and I can already tell.”“Get in here then!” she called back from the kitchen.I was still toeing off my shoes when I heard the footsteps.Fast ones. Small ones. Coming down the hallway with the particular urgency of someone who had been waiting and had run out of patience for it.Tatum hit me somewhere around my midsection.I caught him with an ‘oof’ and wrapped both arms around him. He smelled like something slightly sweet and completely himself. I pressed my face into the top of his head for a second before pulling back to look at him.“What’s got you so happy?” I asked.His whole face was doing the thing it did wh

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

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

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

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