Chapter 23 – Ella’s First Interview

Ella

I must have misheard him. He can’t truly mean that he wants me to move into his rooms. Does he really think I’m that much of a baby, that I need constant watching?

“But it was only one dream.” I protest, my voice still shaky, “I swear it’s not a big deal.”

Sinclair purrs again, and I feel my insides melting against my will. “Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. I just want you to sleep easily.” Before I can stop him, he’s lifting me into my arms.

“Sinclair–” He interrupts me with a growl, and I quickly amend myself, “Dominic this really isn’t necessary. I can sleep on my own.”

“I’m sure you can.” He concedes. “But I want you close.”

“And what about what I want?” The words slip out before I can stop them, and Sinclair pauses, looking down at me with an appraising look.

“And what do you want, Ella?” He asks huskily, his deep voice reverberating down my spine.

“I–” I open my mouth to tell him I want to be alone, in my own space and without his intimidating presence. However somehow I can’t make the words come. Why is it that I can’t seem to stop myself from speaking when I don’t want to, then can’t make myself talk when I do? What is this man doing to me?

can only shake my head in reply. “You can’t lie to me. The pup is making you more and more like a wolf, and wolves

of this, and I want to protest that such a thing isn’t fair, people are entitled to their secrets! “But you’re not my

his mind, maybe because I don’t really want him to change it. I let him carry me out into the hall, flushing scarlet when I see so many guards waiting outside my room. Had all these men heard me screaming

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the most important thing to me in the world.” Sinclair responds simply.

all for the pup. I’m just an afterthought. Will I ever be

anything but an afterthought. The only reason he’s putting up with me at all is the pregnancy. And honestly, the only reason

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of fruit and oatmeal has my stomach growling, but before I can so much as raise a spoon to my lips, a wave of

ago just makes my stomach churn now, but I notice a folded note on the tray. My name is scrawled across

Ella,

been getting a lot of requests and the reporter promised you would only have to answer questions of which I

Yours,

Dominic

pretending to be a completely different person, a completely different species! What kind of questions are they going to ask, what on earth am I going to say to

in a sharp looking suit, feeling very small and out of place. A camera is poised on my face, and I’m trying to look serene – rather than panicked. I found a pretty sweater dress in the wardrobe Sinclair procured

come as no surprise to you that many shifters in the Moon Valley Pack and beyond are very curious about you.” He begins obliquely. “With you by his side, the Alpha is poised to

how that might worry some pack members.”

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