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Chapter 32Elara's PovI lay still, staring at the ceiling, my hand pressed against my stomach. The pups were alive. Mariam had said so. But Cassian's cold eyes when he looked at me this morning cut deeper than any wound. He was still the same mean man I had been taken from five days ago.He didn't even ask if I was okay. He didn't show any care, guilt or remorse. Typical Cassian. What was I expecting from him?He didn't even ask a single question about where I had been, what I saw, who had taken me or how I survived. He didn't care. Maybe he didn't want me back. Just that flat, indifferent voice."You're back in Silver Crest. That's all that matters."I turned my head toward the window. The sky was gray, matching my mood. Twenty days left on our contract. Twenty more days until I could walk away from this man who had never wanted me.But the pup… My pup would bind us forever, or I may die. I had to choose if he ever found out.And I didn't want to choose. I had to do everything in my

Chapter 34 Cassian's PovI frowned at Adrian who stood at attention in the room. His voice was steady but his eyes carried something I rarely saw from him, admiration and it wasn't for me, but for my Luna.“Don't you dare Adrian." I said, looking away from him."Alpha, the pharmacy is fully operational. Since Luna Elara took over three days ago, she immediately accelerated the drug development and revised every formula that Seris had been struggling with for months. Things are exceptionally better my lord.”I leaned back in my chair, staring at him.“Why are you so excited?" He shrugged.“A change has come and it's time we embrace it."“Adrian!!!" I called and he bowed his head."My apologies Alpha. I got carried away by her hard work.” I huffed and looked away from him."How significant were the revisions?" My eyes slowly returning to the reports on the table."It is significant enough that the soldiers are already seeing results." Adrian placed a second file in front of me.“These

Chapter 36 Elara's Pov“What?”The word barely left my lips before the wind swallowed it. Snowflakes caught in his hair, melting on his shoulders. My eyes fell on Seris who watched from the SUV, her face pressed against the glass like a ghost trapped in a tomb.Cassian stepped closer. "I am serious. You heard me.""No." I shook my head. "You can't be serious." He reached out, but I stepped back. My heel hit the curb. Snow seeped into my boots, cold biting through the thin leather.“Why are you doing this to me? Tell me just why?" His expression didn't change."The Council won't accept a divorced Alpha," he said. "And the election has been shifted with one more month, Elara. I need you by my side."One more month. My chest constricted. The black vein pulsed under my collar. One more stressful month of hiding my pups. A month of lying and watching him curl his fingers around Seris's waist while I pretended not to bleed inside. While I pretended everything was fine. I swallowed hard th

Chapter 38Elara's Pov“Bitter." I muttered as the medicine burned my throat going down. I swallowed the last drop and pressed my hand to my chest, willing my stomach to settle down. I didn't want to throw up anymore. Nicole watched me from the doorway, her forehead creased."Luna... you've been taking that for days. It's not helping you, get a real healer.”"It's helping enough." I muttered, staring at my pale face in the mirror. The incident of last night still haunts me."It's not." She stepped closer, lowering her voice. "I hear you at night Luna. The way you hold your stomach and cry when you think I'm asleep." I set the cup down."Nicole." I muttered slowly. But then I swallowed. What do I tell her? That I do not cry? The cat got my tongue and I just swallowed air, again. "Why does the Alpha treat you like that? He treats you less than he treats us. He's your husband, but he looks at you like... like you're a stranger."That's because I am a stranger to him. I almost said it, b

Chapter 40Elara's PovOne more event and then, it was over. Finally, the election was coming to an end. Cassian had hand picked a dress for me. The first time he was doing something like this. He called me to his chambers and handed the dress to me.He never mentioned a word about Rowan, it was just a simple, ‘prepare, for the interview tomorrow.’The dress hung on the wardrobe. It was a yellow colour, my favourite. This still had a high collar and long sleeves to cover my bruises.The fight with Seris made me sick last night. Everything did now.Thanks to Nicole who never left my side. The guilt of Eliza being innocent and not having left me to run away, hit me differently. What if she knew something and had tried to inform me, when they got to her. Why hadn't I thought in that direction and just concluded that she was evil.But still, that haunting voice called me Ginikah. Only Eliza and Calliope, my dead twin sister, called me that. Unless, my mouth fell open. I stood up immediate