The Luna Queen's Rebirth (Ellie and Dominic) novel Chapter 398

The tour ended around nine o’clock, giving me just enough time to make it back to town and open the clinic. By the time I made it back, my cheeks flushed and my hair frosted from the cold, the hair pin I had found on the ground was so far in the back of my mind that I barely even remembered to take it out of my coat pocket and put it on the counter.

The clinic was small but well-equipped already. I turned on the lights, organized the front desk, and turned the sign around in the front window to the “Open” side. There were enough supplies to last me some time before would have to order more, a small waiting area near the front desk, and a curtained-off area near the back with an exam table. Like the apartment, it was sparse, but I could see it becoming more homey over time.

It wasn’t quite what I had pictured myself doing-living in a tiny mountain village as a traveling healer-when first joined the healer academy, but it felt strangely right. Like every day was a new page in a book, blank and waiting to be written.

That afternoon, no one came into the clinic. I spent most of my time tidying up the space, organizing things the way I liked them, and most of all, thinking about what I had learned at the ruins.

I was related to the reborn princess.

Generations ago, a woman in my family had been reborn after her death. Sent back in time, just as I was, to do it all over again.

I didn’t know if it was some kind of special ability, or perhaps a gift from the Moon Goddess. I recalled my wolf telling me, when I first woke up in my childhood bedroom, that the Moon Goddess gave us a second chance to fix the tragedy that my life had become; but why do it twice in one bloodline? What made us so special, as opposed to my mother, for example, who’d had her throat slit right in front of me?

She didn’t get a second chance.

Why did I, and one woman from my bloodline, get that chance?

It didn’t make sense. Maybe it wasn’t supposed to. Maybe it was supposed to feel confusing and unfair and like a

miracle all at the same time.

Maybe it wasn’t supposed to feel like anything.

I was deep in thought when I heard the bell tinkle over the door. Turning, I saw a familiar face smiling at me from the doorway; it was the woman from the meeting yesterday. The servant who mistook me for the Alpha’s family.

Little did she know at the time that she was right.

1 “Amelia.” I set down the feather duster I was holding as she walked in, carrying two paper grocery bags in her

arms. “What brings you to the clinic?”

“I’m not sick or anything,” she said, setting the bags on the counter. “The Alpha mentioned that you probably haven’t had the chance yet to pick up groceries, so I brought you some things.”

“That’s really nice of you.” I walked over, peering into the bags. A rotisserie chicken, a bundle of leeks, fresh breath that smelled divine, and various other canned goods were inside. “Thank you so much.”

Amelia smiled, stepping back, and tucked her hands into her pockets. “So. I guess I was right about you after all.”

“Word spreads fast around here, huh?” I laughed.

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She shrugged. “We’re a small pack that doesn’t get many visitors. Ever since you showed up, people have been talking.” She paused then, glancing at the desk, and pointed. “Where did you find that?”

I turned, looking at the hair pin she was pointing at. When I first picked it up, it had struck me as belonging to Vivian, but I knew it was impossible; Vivian would have no reason to be in a place like this. Nor would she likely still possess her jewelry if she was a rogue; it would have been stolen or sold.

No, it was probably a mass-produced accessory, and someone in the area had the same one. I was just drawing connections where there were none because I was paranoid.

“Oh.” I picked up the pin. “I found it in the ruins this morning. Someone must have dropped it.”

“I know who it belongs to,” she said.

“You do?”

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