The Luna Queen's Rebirth (Ellie and Dominic) novel Chapter 229

Chapter 229

Ellie’s POV

The guests flooded in more quickly than I expected. At first, there was just a trickle, but then the line of cars along the roadway grew longer and longer, and the packs started coming out in droves, all clamoring to get a look.

I was standing in front of the row of hay bales now, on my tiptoes as I looked over the sea of guests. There had to be at least two hundred attendees, already, maybe even more, and not all of them were from our pack. I saw license plates from many of the surrounding packs in the area, and even a few from out of the region.

Dominic appeared at my elbow as if out of nowhere. “Quite the turnout, huh?” he asked, sticking his hands in his pockets and leaning against the hay bales.

I glanced at him. “Way more than I expected there to be.”

He smirked. “I may or may not have paid a little extra for an advertising campaign.”

I turned to face him fully, dumbfounded. “You didn’t say you were going to do that.”

“Was I supposed to tell you?” he asked.

“Well, no, but…” My voice trailed off. I didn’t want to admit that it felt sort of humbling to find that the reason behind the sheer amount of people in attendance today was thanks to Dominic, one of the two people who I was trying to humiliate.

I felt a little bad for that all of a sudden, because while I had been scheming to get my way, he had been trying his best to genuinely make the festival a success. But I reminded myself of my past life, and pushed the feelings down.

The guests were gathering nearby now, looking around in confusion. There were two signs, two banners, two entrances to two different festivals. None of it made sense.

Sarah, having expected this, walked over to me and handed me the microphone. I took it, tapping on it to get everyone’s attention. The sounds boomed across the field, making the guests go quiet,

“Thank you all for coming today,” I announced. “To clear up any confusion, I want to explain why there are two festivals; my sister, Vivian, and I, have decided to each throw our own festival. Enter through the left and you will find my festival. Enter through the right and you will attend hers.”

Dominic shot me a look, but I ignored him and went on, “We ask that everybody enjoy each festival, trying everything it has to offer. At the other end of this row of hay bales is a voting station; feel free to drop a vate for whichever festival you think was better, and the winning side will celebrate with a fireworks show tonight.”

The crowd murmured and began to part into two halves, some going straight for my side, others for Vivian’s. I handed the microphone back to Sarah and looked at Dominic. He was staring at me with wide

eyes.

“What?” I asked.

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“You two are competing?” he whispered. “She was supposed to be your assistant!”

“I told you I didn’t want that,” I said.

Dominic pursed his lips. “So it was your idea?”

“Sort of.”

He sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose. “Goddess, Ellie… I thought you two could, I don’t know, try to put your differences aside. But you’re just using this as a way to get back at each other.”

I shrugged. “If you knew Vivian like I did, you would understand.”

Dominic looked like he wanted to argue further, but he didn’t. Instead, he asked, “Did she agree to it, at least?”

“Obviously.”

He huffed. “Fine. Whatever. As long as you’re both in agreement.” He looked at me sideways. “I’d be remiss if I didn’t admit it’s a little genius of you.”

“Really?” I asked, surprised by that.

He looked loathe to admit it, but he nodded and gestured around us at the guests, who were smiling and laughing, already trying out the various attractions on either side of the bales. “The guests seem to be enjoying themselves so far. Maybe it’ll garner attention for the pack.”

“That was my goal,” I said, although I kept out the part about how, when I won, I intended to publicly make it obvious that I had put together my half without Vivian and Dominic, and use it as leverage to initiate the divorce.

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