The Luna Queen's Rebirth (Ellie and Dominic) novel Chapter 154

Chapter 154

Ellie POV

Dominic doesn’t leave-leave.

The healers make that very clear, like they’re afraid I’ll re die if he’s more than a wall or so away. They set him up in the room next door, close enough that I can still feel him if I concentrate, like a low hum under my skin. Familiar. And annoyingly comforting.

I hear the door shut softly through the wall. Hear the bed creak. Hear nothing after that.

Sleep, I guess.

The quiet settles in, heavy and strange.

I’m staring at the ceiling when Sarah slips inside.

She doesn’t say anything at first. She just crosses the room and wraps her arms around me carefully.

Which is weird. I expected her smile, or flower but she just seems…shaken.

Her cheek presses into my shoulder, and my throat tightens for a reason that isn’t pain.

“You scared me,” she murmurs. “I thought-” Her voice wobbles. “I was really worried. They finally let me back here and I just…”

“I know,” I whisper, patting her back. “I’m sorry.”

She pulls back just enough to look at me, eyes glassy. Don’t apologize. Just… don’t do that again.”

I almost laugh. Almost.

She settles into the chair beside my bed, tucking one leg under herself, studying me the way she does when she’s trying to understand something complicated. Something she doesn’t want to screw up.

“So,” she says gently, “Want to explain why you almost died due some Moon Bond and why two Alpha’s almost committed murder in a hospital room?

I snort weakly. “That’s… a long story.”

“I’ve got time.”

So I tell her.

All of it.

The bond. What it’s doing to my body. The healer’s warning. The impossible math of it all. Dominic’s offer, laid out exactly how he said it, stripped of drama, stripped of romance, because that’s how he meant it.

A contract.

A Luna title.

Power without love and stability for my health.

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Sarah listens without interrupting, which is how I know she’s taking it seriously. When I finally stop talking, my chest feels hollow, like I dumped everything important out and don’t know how to put it back.

She exhales slowly.

“Okay,” she says. “First of all? That’s a nightmare.”

“Thank you.

“Second,” she continues, tilting her head, “Dominic offering a loveless marriage into an Alpha family is… insane.”

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