The Luna Queen's Rebirth (Ellie and Dominic) novel Chapter 120

Chapter 120

Dominic POV

The moment her voice cuts through the ballroom,’my body goes still.

I whip around.

There’s no way she-

She’s…on the damn stage.

“Shit,” I mutter under my breath. “You Mttle-”

“I reject the bond,” Ellie says, and it hits like a blade sliding straight between my ribs. “I always have.”

My finge pinched the bridge of my nose.

Fuck.

She heard. She had to have.

I glance at my parents. My mother looks appalled. My father looks like he might explode. For a heartbeat, the entire room freezes, like everyone’s collectively deciding whether a girl is even allowed to say something like that out loud, in front of packs, in front of Alphas, in front of me.

Then the whispers start. Chairs shift. Someone gasps.

Ellie tosses the microphone aside like it’s nothing and walks off the stage.

And I’m moving before I think.

“Dominic!” my father snarls, but I’m already shoving through curtains and bodies, the music and murmurs fading behind me.

The night air hits hard as I follow her out our the gala. Cold, damp stone and expensive flowers as Lanterns cast everything in warm gold, like the scene might have bene nice if a disaster wasn’t unfolding in real time.

Ellie’s already halfway down the path, walking fast, shoulders rigid.

“Ellie,” I call.

Nothing.

My throat feels raw. “Ellie-stop.”

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She keeps going. I lengthen my stride and cut her off near the hedges. I don’t touch her, just step into her path.

She stops so abruptly her skirt brushes my leg. For a split second, she’s too close, and my chest tightens with a memory I shouldn’t let surface, her fingers clutching my shirt in the pit, her breath against my throat.

Her eyes snap up.

“What?” she spits.

Every memory shatters.

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“Get out my face,” she says before I can speak, jabbing a finger into my chest. “I’m not explaining anything! Not when your parents just tried to marry me off like the moon goddess herself signed the paperwork. Did it occur to them to ask me?”

“Woah, okay. Yeah, I know. Alphas don’t ask,” I scoff…

She folds her arms. “Ah. That explains a lot with you then.”

My jaw tightens. “I’m here to try and fix this, mind killing the atitude.”

“Fix it how?” she asks. “I turned the offer down. Didn’t you just get what you wanted? I heard you, Dominic. I heard you back there.”

I roll my eyes. “I know, you wouldn’t have act so childish if you didn’t.”

Her eyes flash. “Childish? Me?”

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