Forever in the Past and Forever in the Future

Chapter 84

Marco’s POV

"Luna, you aren’t supposed to be back for an hour.Is everything alright?"

Ashley runs up to us as we get back to the packhouse.

Her blue eyes get wide when she gets close and she skids to a stop, holding her hands up, "Whoa! That’s a whole lot of angry coming off of you, Kas."

Kas seems like she ignores her but starts speaking to her anyway.

She's been so stressed out since we left the botanical gardens that she hasn’t been able to really control her emotions like she usually does.

It’s a little crushing.I don’t know how she holds it all in all the time.

"Ashley, can you please arrange for a couple of guards to escort my sisters for arun before dinner? Except for Katherine, Amari, Cora, and Tessa.Send them to my office when they get here.I have more to discuss with them,"

Kas asks Gamma Ashley, "Ch also, could you please see if Musu and James are available.I'd like them to be part of this meeting.Sorry to load this on you, but I need help since Carly is off for the rest of the day."

"Of course Luna.It’s no problem.You know I’m glad to help,"

Ashley chirps happily as she keeps in stride with us, "Kas, are you sure everything is alright? You seem, um, intense?"

Kas stops suddenly and gets a weird look on her face.

She takes Ashley’s hand and gives her best ‘there ain’t nothing wrong’ voice, "I assure you, Ashley, everything is fine.I just have some things to discuss with my sisters that were not appropriate in the middle of the atrium of the botanical gardens."

"Oh, okay.How long until your sisters’ bus gets here?" she looks at the screen of her tablet.

"Their bus driver said they were about fifteen, twenty minutes behind us," I let her know, "Also, Delilah went to get her bag of tricks from home.Can you please let her up to the office as well, Gamma?"

"No problem, Marco,"

Ashley nods happily and types something into the tablet she’s holding, "I will get everything taken care of for you guys.Don’t worry about anything."

When we're finally in Kas’s office, she goes around to sit at her desk.I sit in the guest chair across from her and watch her carefully.Her sparkly hair is a little messy and her face is strained.

Not the put together Kas I usually see.

My Mama would call it ‘ aturdida’ [flustered].I wanna make sure she doesn’t have another vision.I don't know if my heart can take it if she does.

"Kas, not gonna lie.I’m a little worried about you right now,"

I say honestly, "I wanna make sure you're not too stressed out."

you.I promise," her violet

of anger crashes against me but it seems

make sure I got it all right in my head.These visions you

don’t think Tessa has

pulls out a pen and

haven’t done that since high school," I smirk at her while she organizes the colored

the computer in the school library growing up, so I have always done everything by hand.That’s why I keep binders.If anyone ever needed to find out anything really important to me, they would just have to find the right binder and rifle through it.My

you mean like

her chair, twirling the pen in her fingers, "The laptop helps when I have to take care of pack business and send emails but holding the cards in my hands while I'm talking to people helps me focus.You know, it gives me something to do with my

get up and give her privacy, but I gotta talk to her before her sisters get here.I don’t realize I’m staring until

on your mind," she asks, putting the pen down. I

can’t get into her

Luna.Play that on her.Even if you don’t wanna tell her, you got Alpha blood, my dude.She

in

ain’t got no Alpha blood,

it, dude.I’m telling you, it'll

he huffs at me.

figuring out how to disown you,

Here goes nothing.

- uh - I want you to know, I’m speaking as a friend who also happens to work for you.Okay?"

scrunch up,

as you would have hoped with your sisters, but I really think you need to try to start over with them.Family is important.Trust me, I know.I got a huge family.Sometimes we don’t get along.That’s how families are, but at the end of the day, we love each other.We work it out cause that's what family does," she’s still looking at me with the sare worried eyes, "Kas, you’ve been lookin’ for them for so long.And yeah, it sucks that they ain’t the people you thought they’d be, but of all the wolves I

me like she’s

say I

her arms and cocks her head to

her give that look to

She’s mad at me.

eyes a little and feel myself bowing my

my Luna,

be abused for most of my life, kidnapped me, and tortured me

Damn.

She’s got a point.

look past it.At least enough to have a relationship with them.You’re a Luna and you’re amazing at getting people to get along.I seen it firsthand.No one’s saying you gotta have dinner with them

eyes, "but if you’re the one who’s the connection between

holds her head up

shrug, feeling a huge sense of relief she didn’t

from the Goddess you choose

Clash chides.

I growl back at

knock on the door.I can already smell Delilah and the

out to see James having