I Am The Luna

Chapter 34

A Couple of Plans

ZAIA. “Zaia, is everything ok?” I look up at Mom from where I’m slicing the potatoes for the evening meal.

“Of course, why do you ask?” I smile. Mom looks concerned from where she’s braiding Sia’s hair at the kitchen table.

“You don’t cook unless you have a lot on your mind.” She says with a knowing look of understanding in her eyes.

I returned yesterday morning and although I filled her in on everything with Valerie; I refrained from telling her what went down between Sebastian and me.

I don’t know why, but I know how she would have disapproved of me spending the night with him, and that would only make me feel worse…

My heart clenches as I remember that morning….

(FLASHBACK)

My eyes flutter open and I find myself cocooned in warmth. I snuggle back against the hard wall of muscle behind me when I tense. Wall of muscle?

Sebastian!

I’m about to pull away when I realise that my head is on his arm, his hand clamped around my breast, his other arm firmly around my hips, holding me tightly against him…

He’s asleep, I can tell from his steady heartbeat…

his face into my neck. “You smell

to always

to get up. For a fleeting moment, I want to enjoy the warmth and comfort that his embrace offers

from his

(END OF FLASHBACK)

me,” Mom says, making me look over my

mind, and I have been doing some research. “Oh, you

that. I know in this day and age the practices

no doubt. So is Jai going to ask Sebastian to allow Valerie to be brought here? You know how he is so

distaste. “I know, but hopefully for Jai, he listens,” I say shortly. I have made it clear we will not discuss Sebastian in front of the kids,

and if she did, that she plays it off to my irritation

reflection in the kitchen window, wondering who would want us

fault you didn’t know about Valerie,” Mom says as Sia slides off

an adorable smile as she holds her paper up to me.

Aunty Valerie, then the moon will heal her.” She says in her adorable little voice. I

wrap my arms around my little princess and hug her tightly. “That is the

carrying Sia. “Yes, deep down, I feel that this

them a little about Valerie when they asked

three years old, but they are bright. I’m just waiting

Dad asks. We’re in my new office, one floor up, at the Toussaint Headquarters, and he has just placed a file down in front of me. I glance up at him curiously before looking down

“I don’t want to lose focus on what I am doing, Father. I have come so far, and I plan to focus everything I have on my career,

push aside the file and cross my legs as I look across at him. He’s agitated,

the Zero project, there’s a high chance we might lose that deal.” He grunts. “If we

him for a

worry, I’m flying out there for the meeting and I’m extremely confident I’ll get the deal. What company has joined

a beat at the mention of Sebastian. Why would he do that? Everyone knows that

my

I don’t think you should go.

standing up. “I worked on this project for so long, I will not let anyone take it from me, not you Dad, or Sebastian. If he wants to

past years. Whilst he came to accept. and approve of Atticus, his resentment for Sebastian and his company only increased

I will come

You need to be here

come along too and mind them. I think the trip will do them good too and Sia can enjoy the

my babies are near would be good. “And will your

“She doesn’t “Security-”

no one will touch those children, here or

and nod appreciatively. The protection that Dad provides for me is the one thing that I appreciate the most and I won’t ever forget it, no matter what the future holds. “Thank you. I think we

“Or perhaps Atticus-”

to go with him when the

photographs. Me and Atticus. at the party, a blurred image at the fountain, me and him

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