The Luna Queen's Rebirth (Ellie and Dominic) novel Chapter 472

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Chapter 472

For a while, the village had been gaining more traction. I’d seen it happen in real time during my initial weeks here. It was still small, but it was getting somewhere, and the hotel was usually at least half-full.

Backwater. The word had stuck. And now we were paying for it. The village was quieter than usual, and a few shops closed to combat the sunk costs of staying open with no customers, and the skiers who should have been coming in droves now that the winter season had officially arrives were nothing more than a smattering.

I walked up to my father’s house on one gray afternoon to deliver some cough medicine for Eli, who had a slight cough due to the weather. The house was quiet when I entered. I stepped further into the foyer and heard voices coming from his study. The door was open a crack. I raised my hand to knock and stopped, because the voice currently speaking was Stephanie’s, and my name was in it.

—was fine before she came up this mountain. That is simply a fact, Terence. The clinic brought that Alpha, the Alpha brought his scandal, and now all of the territories are laughing at us.”

“That’s not Ellie’s fault,” my father replied.

“I wouldn’t be so sure about that. Every disaster that has found this pack in the last three months has walked in wearing her face or following it. I told you when she arrived that outsiders bring their troubles with them. Nobody listened, and here we are, watching the pack suffer for it.”

“She’s not an outsider. She’s my daughter.”

“And I’m your wife, and my sons’ futures are tied to this pack’s, so forgive me for caring what happens to it.”

Silence for a moment. My hand was still raised, frozen, and I knew I should either knock or leave, but I couldn’t seem to make myself do either.

“The tourism will come back.” Bastian’s voice said then, surprising me. “Better than before. We can bring it

back ourselves.”

Stephanie sighed. “Bastian, don’t start with that nonsense…”

“I’m serious. The fountain is real. We found the etching, Mom, I took a rubbing of it, there’s an entrance near

the summit-

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