The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 206

Alexander

Gabriel stormed into my office the next morning without so much as a knock. The moment the door was shut

behind him, he whirled on me, his face twisted with fury.

“Are you out of your fucking mind?” he snarled.

| slowly looked up from the budget reports I'd been reviewing. “Good morning to you too, Gabriel. What's got

your panties in a twist today?”

“You told her everything.” Gabriel's face was crimson with rage. “You told Ella about the investigation. About her

father. About all of it.”

“Yes, | did.”

“Do you have any idea what you've done? Years of work, Alexander. Years of careful planning and surveillance,

and you just handed it all over to the enemy.”

| carefully set down my pen and leaned back in my chair. “She’s not the enemy.”

“How can you possibly know that?”

“Because she’s my mate. My wife. The mother of my child.” | stood up and gripped the edge of the desk so hard

my knuckles turned white. “And because | chose to trust her.”

“Trust her? Based on what? Sex?”

My wolf bristled at his indignation, but | fought to maintain control. For now, at least. “Based on the fact that she

offered to helptake down her own father the moment she found out.”

“Which could be part of the plan! Don’t you see that?” Gabriel stormed up toand jabbed his finger into the

center of my chest, making my wolf growl. “This could all be an elaborate setup. She gets caught with the

evidence, plays the innocent victim, gains your sympathy, and now she’s perfectly positioned to feed

information back to Stormhollow.”

Gabriel wasn’t entirely wrong, but | recalled last night all too well. Ella’s face when she'd found the evidence,

followed by the look of pain in her eyes when | explained everything... Unless she was a

phenomenal actress, | couldn't imagine that she was lying.

“You didn’t see her, Gabriel. You didn’t hear what she said.”

“] don’t need to. | know how these people operate.” Gabriel pinched the bridge of his nose and shut his eyes in

exasperation. “Alexander, you're letting your feelings cloud your judgment. Again.”

“My judgment is just fine.”

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“You're being played like a fiddle. That Stormhollow whore has you by the balls-"

“That's enough.” My jaw clenched, every Alpha instinct infighting against the hold of composure | had on

myself. | wanted to leap across the desk and sink my teeth into the Beta’s neck. Wanted to finally put him in his

place for insulting my mate, once and for all.

Gabriel seemed unfazed by my fury. “No, it’s not enough. We need to continue the investigation. We need to dig

deeper, find out what she’s really up to.”

“The investigation is over.”

“Like hell it is.”

“I said it’s over, Gabriel. We have what we need to move against her father. Ella is not a threat.”

“You don’t know that!”

“I know enough.” My voice was dangerously low. “She’s pregnant with my heir, for fuck’s sake. You think she'd

risk her own child's life for sscheme?”

“I think she’d do whatever it takes to complete her mission.”

That was it. I'd had enough.

“You're out of line, Gabriel.”

“I'm doing my job!”

“Your job is to advise me, not to make decisions for me. Your job is to support my choices, not undermine them

at every turn.”

Gabriel's eyes flashed. “My job is to protect this pack from threats, even when you're too blind to see

them.”

“Blind?” | stepped around my desk, getting in his face. “I'm blind?”

“When it comes to her? Yes. Completely.”

“And | suppose you see everything clearly?”

“I see a woman who showed up here at exactly the right twith exactly the right story. | see a woman who's

managed to wrap the Alpha King around her little finger in a matter of months. | see a threat that you're ignoring

because she’s got nice tits and a pretty smile.”

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My fist connected with his face before | could control myself. Gabriel stumbled backward, slamming into the

coffee cart behind him. Cups and saucers went shattering across the floor, and blood immediately began to

trickle from his broken nose.

“Don’t you ever talk about my mate like that again,” | growled.

Gabriel wiped the blood from his face and glared at me. “Hittingdoesn’t makewrong.”

“No, but being an insubordinate asshole makes you useless to me.”

“I'm trying to save you from making the biggest mistake of your life!”

“By constantly questioning my judgment? By whispering in my ear like I'm skind of idiot who can’t think for

himself?”

“Because you're acting like one!”

The words were clear. Gabriel thought | was being a fool. And perhaps | was, but a Beta had no right to speak to

me-or his Luna-like that. No matter what he thought about the situation, | was still his Alpha. His Alpha King.

| would not tolerate it any longer.

| should have stopped tolerating it that night in the alley all those months ago when | beat him within an inch of

his life.

“Say that again,” | said quietly.

Gabriel lifted his chin. “You're being naive. Stupid. She's playing you, and you're too infatuated to see it.”

“Get out.”

“Alexander-"

“I said get out. You're demoted, effective immediately.”

Gabriel's face went white. “You can’t be serious.”

“Dead serious. You've questioned my authority one too many times. A Beta who doesn’t respect his Alpha is no

Beta at all.”

“You're making a mistake.”

“The only mistake | made was keeping you in that position as long as | did.” | turned away from him, effectively

dismissing him. “And another thing-how exactly did Ella get her hands on those investigation files?”

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Gabriel's silence was telling.

“Those were classified materials, Gabriel. Top secret. The only way she could have found them is if someone left

them somewhere they shouldn’t have been.”

“I don’t know what you're implying.”

“I'm not implying anything. I'm stating a fact. You were careless with sensitive information, and now it’s

compromised.” | faced him again. “I don’t trust you anymore, Gabriel. I'll handle the Stormhollow situation

myself from here on out. And if I'm making a mistake, then it's my mistake to make.”

Gabriel stared atfor a long moment, his jaw working like he wanted to say more. Finally, he straightened his

jacket and walked to the door.

“You'll regret this,” he said without turning around.

“The only thing | regret is not doing it sooner.”

The door slammed behind him, and | was alone.

| stood there for a moment, adrenaline still coursing through my veins. Gabriel had been my Beta for as long as

I'd been an Alpha. We'd fought together, planned together, built this pack together. And now it

was over.

But | couldn't bring myself to feel sorry about it. Gabriel had crossed too many lines, questioned too many

decisions. A Beta was supposed to support his Alpha, not constantly undermine him.

Especially not when it cto my mate.

Suddenly, the door swung open again. | whirled around in a rage, mouth opening to tell Gabriel to get out before

| made him really regret it. But it wasn’t Gabriel who | found standing in the doorway.

“What do we think? Blue or green?”

It was Ella, holding up two swatches for the baby’s nursery.

And the smile on her face madesoften in an instant.

Without a second thought, | crossed the room in two long strides and pulled her into my arms. She stiffened,

making a small squeak of surprise, but quickly relaxed and rested her forehead against my

chest.

Perhaps this was a mistake. Perhaps she was playinglike a fiddle and Gabriel was right all along.

But... dammit. | couldn’t keep myself away from her anymore.

If this was a war, then I'd just lost.

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