The Luna Queen's Rebirth (Ellie and Dominic) novel Chapter 132

Chapter 132

Dominic POV

I am not hiding outside the infirmary.

I am standing very strategically near the door.

There’s a difference.

The door is cracked just enough for voices to slip through, and I lean against the wall with my arms crossed, pretending I belong here. Like I’m waiting for someone.

“…no abnormalities,” a healer says inside. “Sometimes stress manifests physically.”

Stress.

I almost snort.

Ellie under stress once took am impossibly rigged exam, slept four hours across two days, maybe,, and still corrected my form during medic drills. She doesn’t faint from stress. She snarls at it. And me.

I’ve seen stressed.

This wasn’t that.

Through the thin wood, I hear her voice-quiet, groggy, half-conscious-and something in my chest tightens before I can stop it.

The memory flashes back uninvited.

Something was wrong when she approached, like she didn’t even realize it was me. I was angry at first, annoyed that it was her, anyone but her, treating me.

Especially after that morning, seeing her with Lucas.

I nearly rolled my eyes.

But the way she went down wasn’t graceful. No warning. One second she was wrapping my arm, the next her knees buckled and she fell straight into me like gravity gave.

VERIFYCAPTCHA_LABELVerify