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."

I couldn't, I would tell you.I promise," her violet eyes

anger crashes against me but it

got it all right in my head.These visions you had.You sure it was Tessa’s wolf attacking you, not Tessa’s human spirit. You one hundred

think Tessa has any control over

out a pen and

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

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 schedule,

mean like a

on my mind," she leans back in 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

but I gotta talk to her before her sisters get here.I don’t realize I’m

your mind,"

my Luna.I can’t get into

tell her, you got Alpha

interrupts in

got no Alpha blood, fool," I

dude.I’m telling

he huffs at me.

I get fired on my first day, I’m figuring out

Here goes nothing.

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

scrunch

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 know, you're probably the most forgiving.You

twirling her pen in her fingers, and looks at me like she’s trying to decide whether she should tell me to get the fuck out or

me to just forget everything they told me this afternoon? Alright, let’s just say I forget about all the

arms and cocks her head to the

her give that look to

She’s mad at me.

a little and feel myself bowing my head

my

lifetime, they knowingly let me be abused for most of my life, kidnapped me, and tortured me with magical electric

Damn.

She’s got a point.

all.I’m just saying look past it.At least enough to have a relationship with

eyes, "but if you’re the one who’s the connection between this Mavri Magea group and the rest of these women, I think you should try to keep the peace

puts her elbows on the table, then holds her head up with her hands, "How is it you always

gift, I guess," I shrug, feeling a huge

the Goddess you

Clash chides.

Clash," I growl

and the intoxicating scent of my mate.I jump up and open it

into the office.I look out