The Sickened Luna's Last Chance novel Chapter 495

Chapter 495

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Chapter 495

I pulled over and scrolled through them with shaking hands. The pictures were everywhere. Me and Jane at the bar. Jane outside my hotel room. Headlines screaming about an affair.

There were missed calls from Ella. Three of them.

I called her, but it only rang twice before going to voicemail.

“Ella, it’s me,” I said frantically. “Whatever you saw, whatever you heard, it’s not true. Jane drugged me. She was working with your father. I’m on my way home right now. Please, just wait for me. Don’t do anything until I get there.”

I hung up and kept driving.

By the time I pulled into the driveway, the sun had long since risen. I burst through the front door, calling Ella’s name.

Hunter appeared from the kitchen. “Alexander? You’re back-”

“Where’s Ella?”

“She left about an hour ago. Said she had an appointment with the doctors.”

I was already heading back out the door. “If she comes back, tell her to wait for me.”

The Anthonies‘ house was a fucking hour away, and Ella still wasn’t answering her phone. I managed to make it there in forty- five minutes, parking crooked in their driveway and running up to the front door. I pounded on it until Anthony answered with a startled expression on his face.

“Where’s Ella?” I barked before he could speak.

“She’s downstairs. We’re about to begin the procedure.”

“The procedure? What fucking procedure?”

Anthony didn’t answer. With a snarl, I pushed past him and took the stairs to the basement, nearly breaking my neck in the process as I tripped down the last step. The lab was at the far end, and through the glass window in the door, I could see Ella.

She was sitting in a large chair that looked like something out of a science fiction movie. A metal dome was positioned around her head, and I could see electrodes taped to her temples and chest. Tony was adjusting something on a control panel nearby.

I burst through the door. “Stop!”

Tony jumped, nearly knocking over a tray of instruments. “Alexander? What are you doing here?”

“I need to talk to Ella.” I started toward her, but Anthony grabbed my arm, pulling me back.

“You can’t. The procedure has already begun!”

I looked at Ella. Her eyes were closed, her breathing slow and even. “I don’t give a shit. Wake her up,” I ordered.

“We can’t.” Anthony’s voice was firm. “Once the procedure starts, it has to run its course. Interrupting it now could cause serious damage to her body.”

“How long will the procedure take?” I asked.

“Two hours. Maybe three.”

Cursing under my breath, I pulled away from Anthony and walked to Ella’s side. Up close, I could see the rise and fall of her chest, the slight flutter of her eyelids. The crystal beneath her shirt was glowing faintly, pulsing in time with the machine, which was… strange.

“What exactly is this procedure supposed to do?” I asked.

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“We’re using targeted electrical stimulation to encourage the crystal to regenerate your mate bond,” Tony explained quietly.” The crystal has been absorbing and storing energy since it embedded itself in her chest. We’re essentially redirecting that energy, using it to rebuild the neural pathways that were severed when she gave up the bond.”

“And if it doesn’t work?”

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