Rejected Luna Returns with Secret Twins (Lysandra) novel Chapter 228

Chapter 228

I shook my head and kept walking. “There’s nothing to explain when you’re blackmailing me.”

The car door opened and closet. Footsteps approached from behind, and then Eldreth was beside me, matching my pace.

“Im genuinely attracted to you, Lysandra,” he said, ‘I don’t want to see you hurt by Tristan again. But if you never let yourself move on from him, you’ll be trapped forever.”

I stopped and turned to face him. ‘Is that supposed to make me feel better? That you’re manipulating me out of concern? Or is this your way of taking advantage of a vulnerable woman?”

His expression darkened. “That’s not fair.”

“Nothing about this is fair,” I spat back. “Why me, Eldreth? Why are you so fixated on someone like me? Why would someone like you want a divorced woman with two children? You could have anyone.”

Eldreth’s face softened, the hard lines of frustration melting into something more vulnerable.

*Lysandra, I’ve watched you rebuild your life from nothing,” he said, his voice dropping to an intimate tone. “Despite everything you’d been through, you were fighting for your brother with such determination.”

He took a step closer, his eyes never leaving mine. “Do you know how rare it is to find someone so selfless? So strong? Everyone else in your position would have broken, but you didn’t.”

A soft sigh escaped him. “I don’t care about your past or your divorce. I don’t care that you have children–I’d love them as my own if given the chance, I just want to be the one who makes you smile instead of cry. Is that so wrong?”

My lips trembled. His words hit me with unexpected force–sincere or not, they touched places in my heart that had been cold and empty for so long.

I stepped back, needing distance to think clearly. Eldreth’s expression suddenly changed, his eyes widening as he looked past me. Before I could turn, he lunged forward, wrapping his arms around me and spinning us both away from the street.

The squeal of tires filled my ears as a car swerved dangerously close to where I’d been standing. As it sped away, I caught a glimpse of the driver–not looking concerned, but glancing back as if checking, whether they’d hit their target.

“Are you okay?” Eldreth asked, his arms still around me, our faces inches apart.

I could feel his heartbeat against my chest, rapid and strong. For a moment, we stayed like that, frozen in the aftermath of what could have been a serious accident–or something worse.

Pushing against his chest, I stepped back. “Thank you, but this doesn’t change anything.”

He ran a hand through his hair, frustration evident in every line of his body. “I was wrong to use your brother’s condition as leverage. I admit that. But seeing those photos of you with Tristan…” He shook his head. “I’m offering you an alternative, Lysandra. A chance at something real.”

“You’re forcing me to choose!” My voice cracked with emotion.

Eldreth stared at me for a long moment, then turned toward his car. “I deserve someone who chooses me freely. If you can’t, I understand.”

Panic surged through me as he walked away. “What about my brother? Are you just going to let him die?”

He stopped, shoulders tensing. When he turned back, his expression was carefully controlled. “Your brother’s treatment is too complex for most healers. I’d need to devote months exclusively to it.”

“So you’re just going to abandon him?” I demanded.

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