The Luna Queen's Rebirth (Ellie and Dominic) novel Chapter 236

Chapter 236

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Embarrassingly, I did want to go after Ellie and hunt her and Lucas down right now. But the festival still had several hours left, and I needed to be here. Ellie was already gone. The pack’s Alpha couldn’t disappear,

too.

“I’m staying,” I said. “But thanks for the offer.”

Vivian nodded. “Well, if you need my help, you know where to find me. Unlike some people, I’m not going anywhere.”

I watched her go, not really sure what to say to that.

I spent the next twenty minutes searching for Ellie, hoping that Vivian was wrong. I checked the perimeter of the festival grounds. I checked the parking area once and didn’t see Lucas’s car anywhere, which did nothing to soothe my frayed nerves.

My jaw clenched. I turned and headed back to the festival, resolving to talk to her about this later.

Surely Ellie wouldn’t be so selfish as to not come back at all before the festival was over, I thought.

Well, I was wrong. The afternoon bled into evening, and evening turned into night, and she still hadn’t come back or returned any of my calls.

By the time the ballot counting got underway, I was furious. I threw myself into the last stretch of the festival as best I could, but as the night wore on, that fury only doubled in size.

Ellie had been so adamant about picking up the slack with this festival. After weeks of doing virtually nothing for the pack, even going out of her way to be absent, I’d thought she was finally coming out of her slump.

Well, I had been wrong. Maybe it had all been intentional-throw an excellent festival, make everything look fine, then suddenly pull the rug out from under me just to piss me off.

I hated that it was working.

The ballot results came in just around nine. I opened the folded piece of paper brought to me by one of the staff and almost laughed out loud at the absurdity of it all.

୮

A tie.

A perfect, exact, dead even tie.

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