Todos los capítulos de The Alpha's Plus-Size Contract Luna : Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 5

Zara PovThe car ride home passed in silence, the kind that presses against your ears louder than any argument could. Mara slept against my shoulder the whole way, worn out from the party and completely unaware that the ground under her had shifted while she dozed.Cole carried her inside when we pulled up, her small arms looped loosely around his neck. He didn't say a word. The nanny appeared at the door before he'd even crossed the threshold, taking Mara from him with practiced hands, murmuring something soft about bedtime as she disappeared down the hallway with my daughter. I trailed a step behind Cole, my heels loud against the marble."Cole." My voice cracked as I said his name. "What was that? What did you mean by real mother?"He didn't stop walking, didn't even slow down."Cole, please. Talk to me."He moved further into the house like my questions were background noise, something to be dealt with later, if at all. I followed him past the living room, past the kitchen, my

Zara Pov The first thing I noticed when I came through was the smell. It was sharp, clinical, antiseptic in a way that had nothing to do with any room I recognized. My eyelids felt heavier than they should have, almost as though something was holding them shut on purpose.When I finally managed to open them, the ceiling above me was wrong. Off-white tiles instead of the pale gray of my bedroom, a fluorescent light humming faintly instead of the soft lamp Cole always complained about leaving on.For one strange second, there was nothing. No memory, no weight, just the quiet confusion of wondering where I was.Then it all came rushing back at once, too fast to brace for. The ballroom. Mara's voice calling out to someone else. The house, the folder, the door locking behind me. My father's face, cold and unmoving. The cold pavement rising up to meet me.My body ached in places I couldn't fully separate from each other, a dull throb settling into my ribs, my knees, somewhere behind my ey