The Luna Queen's Rebirth (Ellie and Dominic) novel Chapter 297

I wiped at my eyes and felt wetness on my fingers.

I wished I could get a handle on this side of myself! I wished I could be practical. Level-headed. Do what was actually right instead of doing what felt safe in the moment, even when it wasn’t.

But I didn’t know how. And outside of Lucas, khad… no one, I was alone, working without rhyme or reason, with no one to talk to, not really. No one to bounce ideas off of and to give me insight and to just fucking…

listen.

Hell, I had even pushed Sarah, my one closest friend, away because of it. And she was the one I wanted to talk to the most. She was calmer than Lucas, more rational, less driven by whatever emotions she felt toward me. I had used her, too, to test that knife, and I didn’t even have the decency to tell her why.

The tears came harder now, slipping down my cheeks and leaving behind salty paths. I pressed my face into my knees and let them fall, too exhausted to fight them back anymore.

I just wished everything could be different.

I wished I’d never died in the first place. I wished I’d never woken up in this timeline with all these

memories weighing me down. I wished I could just be normal, live a normal life, without constantly looking over my shoulder for the knife I knew was coming.

But wishing didn’t change anything.

Just then, I heard footsteps coming toward me.

“Ellie? Is that you?”

Sarah’s voice. Speak of the devil.

I quickly wiped at my face, trying to scrub away the evidence of my breakdown, but it was too late. She had already rounded the corner and was standing there, staring at me with wide eyes.

“Hey,” I said, trying and failing to not sound like I was shattering. “What are you doing here?”

“It’s the library,” she said matter-of-factly. “Are you crying?”

“No.”

She sighed and moved closer. “Ellie, what’s wrong?”

I looked away. “Nothing. Just had a bad day.”

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