The Sickened Luna's Last Chance novel Chapter 304

Chapter 304

Frankly, at the moment, I wasn’t sure if I believed her. But I nodded anyway..

Around dinnertime, the buzz still hadn’t ebbed away. I took my dinner of bread and cheese and apple slices to the library, not only to continue my futile research for Liam’s sake, but also to stay away from the gossipping

staff.

However, by now, my constant visits to the library weren’t going unnoticed. Just about everyone knew they could find me there when I wasn’t busy with Lucien, and it wasn’t long before Anya rounded the nearest shelf, wringing her hands nervously.

“Stella, can we talk?”

I snapped the book shut that I was reading and shoved it behind me before she could see that it was a text on ancient blood rituals. “Sure. Is everything alright?”

Anya sat down in the chair next to me and hesitated for a moment before whispering, “I heard about what happened at the restaurant today. With the pack members thinking you and Alexander were…‘

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“I know. It was a misunderstanding. Alexander just wanted to thank me for helping with Lucien, so he took me out for lunch.”

“So you’re not… I mean, you and he aren’t…” Anya trailed off, her cheeks turning pink. “I mean, I’m not interested in him in that way, but I still have to ask, since he’s going to make me his Luna and all. I don’t want a scandal right off the bat.”

“No. Absolutely not. My relationship with Alexander is strictly professional.” The lie tasted like ash in my mouth. Or was it a lie? Our relationship was professional, because it had to be. “Trust me, I have no intention of … anything with him.”

That part, at least, was half true. Perhaps I still loved Alexander, but nothing could ever happen between us again. Not unless I found a cure for this curse, which was a slim to nothing chance.

“Okay.” Anya nodded, then bit her lip and leaned in, smiling conspiratorially. “Is it because you have another secret boyfriend? Is it Alpha Liam? I hear you’ve been visiting him in the hospital-”

“No,” I blurted out before she could finish. “No, Liam and I are just friends. I’m… single.”

“Oh.” Anya looked a little disappointed. “You really don’t have anyone? But you’re so beautiful.”

I didn’t know how to answer that, so I just shrugged.

Anya furrowed her brow. “Have you ever been in love?”

That question made my cheeks burn ten times over. Of course I had been in love–stupidly. I’d fallen hard and fast for Alexander, my mate, and then fallen out of it. And then I fell again, only even harder than the first time.

And now…

I’d fallen for him all over again.

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Only this time, there was no possible way for me to ever act on it.

“Yes,” I finally said. “I loved a man once.”

“What happened?” Anya tilted her head, a single red curl falling across her forehead with the motion.

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