NovelOnlineChapter 218
Alexander & Ella
Alexander
It was early on a Tuesday afternoon. | had a meeting to attend in less than an hour and so much to do. | should
have been reviewing the budget reports spread across my desk before the meeting, but | couldn't
focus.
My mind kept drifting to other things. Better things.
Like the way Ella looked when she was spread out beneathlike a buffet that was just for me. The taste of
Ella’s lips, sweet with rainwater from the storm. The sound of Ella’s voice when she cried out my name, nearly
lost beneath the sound of the thunder.
Ella. Ella, Ella.
She consumed my mind. Every t| closed my eyes, | saw her. Every t| inhaled, | smelled her. | couldn't
even sleep properly anymore because | just wanted to fucking stare at her.
Fuck. | was in deep, wasn’t I?
| was certainly in this far, far deeper than I'd ever intended to be with anyone, let alone with the woman. I'd
married for political reasons five years ago. For all | knew, she might still be a spy and | really was the
fool Gabriel said | was.
But there was no denying it anymore-I was falling for Ella. Hard and fast and irreversibly. There was no going
back from here. Not anymore.
Maybe I'd been falling for her longer than | cared to admit. Maybe it had started back when she was sick and I'd
found myself looking forward to our chess games in the hospital.
Or maybe it was more recent, tied to the pregnancy and the way she stood up to Gabriel and the way everything
had changed after I'd marked her.
Either way, it didn’t matter when it had started. What mattered was what | was going to do about it now.
Deep down, | really wanted to make this official. | wanted to tell her how I felt, wanted to stop pretending that
there wasn’t something between us. | wanted to show her that she wasn’t just sex or convenience to me, but
someone who truly mattered.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt| wanted to be a real husband to her, not just the Alpha King who happened to share a bed with her.
The ultrasound appointment was this afternoon. Tonight, when she got hwith news about our child, maybe
that would be the right tto-
Suddenly, a knock on my office door interrupted my thoughts.
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“Cin,” | called out without looking up from the papers | was supposed to be reading.
“Alpha King.”
| knew that voice. My head snapped up to see Thomas Black standing in my doorway, cap in his hands and that
snervous expression he'd worn every tI'd seen him over the past few months.
Thomas Black. The groundskeeper from Stormhollow who'd confessed to cutting the brake lines on my parents’
car. The man who | had threatened into continuing the investigation.
“Thomas.” | set down my pen. “I wasn’t expecting you.”
“I know, sir. I'm sorry to bother you without an appointment, but | had to come.” He stepped further into the
room and closed the door behind him. “I have something you need to see.”
| sat up a little straighter. “What is it?”
Thomas reached into his jacket and pulled out a manila envelope. “I found this when | was snooping through
sold files at the Stormhollow estate. It was hidden in the Alpha’s study, behind sbooks.”
He handedthe envelope, and | could feel how thick it was. Whatever was inside, there was a lot of it.
| opened it and pulled out the contents. It was all legal documents. Contracts. And at the very top of the
stack...
My blood went cold.
It was a contract dated less than a year ago. Six and a half months, in fact. The header read “Agreement
Between Alpha Richard Eden of Stormhollow and Ella Solace, Luna of Ashclaw, Regarding Strategic Manipulation
of Alpha Alexander Solace of Ashclaw.”
And at the bottom of the page, clear as day, was Ella’s signature.
Ella
Lilith had really outdone herself with the gender reveal cake.
It was just a simple white cake with buttercream frosting, but she had gone all out with the decorations. Little
flowers, each one completely unique, were piped along the perimeter of the top layer. “Boy or Girl? Which Will It
Be?” was written across the front in pink and blue icing.
And inside, hidden beneath the vanilla sponge, was either pink or blue filling that would reveal whether
Alexander and | were having a son or daughter.
The anticipation was killing me.
I'd set the cake on the dining room table with two plates and forks, and now | was pacing around the
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room dressed in a simple lilac dress, checking the clock every few minutes. Alexander's emergency meeting had
run long, but he'd texted that he would be hsoon.
This was it. Tonight was the night we would find out our child’s gender, but it was also the night | was going to
tell him that I loved him.
The words had been burning in my throat for weeks now, ever since that night in the treehouse when we'd made
love and I'd fallen asleep in his arms. | couldn’t keep them inside anymore.
Whether he felt the sway or not, | couldn't let myself go on any longer without telling him how I truly felt. |
had to just get the words out before | went completely insane.
And if he did feel the sway... well, finding out the gender of the baby we were having together seemed like
the perfect backdrop for that conversation. It would be a happy night, one filled with the joy and love and trust
that I'd been dreaming of for so long.
Finally, | heard the front door open and close, followed by familiar footsteps in the hallway. My heart started
racing.
“Alexander?” | called out, hastily smoothing down my dress. “I'm in the dining room!”
But when he appeared in the doorway, he didn’t have the smile | expected to see-the smile | had grown used to
seeing lately. Instead, his face was a mask of cold fury.
“We need to talk.”
“What's wrong?” | took a step toward him, but he held up a hand to stop me.
“Don’t.” The word cout like a growl, and | froze, spine stiffening. He never spoke tolike that anymore.
Never.
My mouth opened and closed wordlessly. Alexander simply reached into his jacket and pulled out an envelope.
From it, he extracted what looked like legal documents and threw them down on the table next to our perfect
cake.
“Explain this,” he said.
| looked down at the papers, confused. The top document was skind of contract from the looks of it. | picked
it up to get a better look, and my blood turned to ice.
It was a contract betweenand my father. An agreement stating that | would seduce Alexander, get pregnant
with his child, and use that pregnancy to manipulate him into signing Ashclaw’s inheritance over to Stormhollow.
And at the bottom of the page was my signature.
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