The Luna Queen's Rebirth (Ellie and Dominic) novel Chapter 149

Chapter 149

Dominic POV

I wake to the sound of the world ending.

At least, that’s what it feels like.

Alarms tear through the endless halls like a bomb going off, red lights flashing so fast they smear together. For a second I don’t know where I am, just ripped awake into chaos, my heart already racing before my

brain catches up.

Code red. Code red.

I jolt upright so hard the chair scrapes loudly against the floor. My pulse is in my ears, loud enough to drown out everything else.

Beside me, Sarah gasps awake.

Her hand flies out and clamps around my arm, fingers digging in like a life line. Her eyes are huge, glassy, already wet.

“Ellie?” she chokes. “Do they mean-Dominic, do they mean Ellie?!”

“I don’t know,” I say immediately, low. My mouth feels dry, wrong. “They didn’t say a name.”

But everything feels wrong in me. Like something slipping.

Sarah is on her feet, nearly tripping over the chair. “They don’t just call code red for nothing,” she says, voice pitching higher with every word. “They stablized her earlier, right? They said she was stable-”

“They said managed,” I snap before I can stop myself. I drag a hand through my hair, trying to ground myself. “They said managed, not fine.”

Her face crumples at that.

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“Oh my god,” she whispers. “Oh my god, Dominic, what if-

She looks at me like she’s drowning. “What do we do? Because no one’s telling us anything!”

As if summoned by her words, a nurse rushes past us, clipboard clutched to her chest, ponytail swinging wildly.

“Hey!” Sarah shouts, lunging forward. “What’s happening? Is it Ellie-”

The nurse doesn’t slow. Doesn’t even look at us.

Sarah spins back to me, breath hitching. “Did you see her face? That wasn’t a ‘routine complication’ face.’

My chest tightens.

“It’s okay, I’m going to find out,” I say. Though I don’t even feel convinced.

I take one step forward and Sarah grabs my sleeve this time, panic bleeding into anger. “Dominic, don’t be stupid. They’ll kick you out if you start throwing Alpha weight around.”

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try to pull away. “They won’t, just wait-”

She flinches. “I can’t just wait here alone! If Ellie dies-”

That stops me.

She swipes furiously at her cheeks, smearing tears she doesn’t seem to realize are there. “I can’t-” Her voice breaks. “I can’t lose her. She’s my best friend!”

I soften despite myself, turning back to her. “You’re not losing her,” I say, though I don’t know if I’m lying to her or to myself. “Ellie’s too stubborn for that.”

Sarah lets out a shaky, hysterical laugh. “…Yeah. She’d haunt the healers out of spite.”

For half a second, we both cling to that.

Then another alarm shrieks from somewhere deeper in the ward, sharper than the rest.

Sarah grabs my arm again, nails biting into my skin. “That’s closer. That’s her room, isn’t it?”

I open my mouth, but as nurse passing, my hand snaps out. I stop her, standing to my full height.

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