I Am The Luna

Chapter 35

A Dinner

ZAIA. “I love this place,” Atticus says as he sits back as the waitress walks away after taking our orders. We are in a dimly lit, stunning restaurant that serves a variety of cuisines; the booths are covered with lush green velvet and the woodwork is all a deep mahogany.

Chandeliers hang above each table and we both head to the back into one of the semi- permanent booths which are covered from three sides.

I nod, glancing around before I lean back against the lush seats. “We do come here often,” I say, adjusting the strap to my dark blue dress.

He nods, watching me. His eyes soften, and I feel his eyes skim over me. “You look beautiful tonight, but when don’t you?”

I look up at him, my heart skipping a beat as tension falls between us.

“Thanks.” Today is the first time we’re meeting properly alone since the proposal. I am so lost in my own thoughts and what I am going to ask him tonight that I forgot that part.

“We do come here often.” He says, clearing his throat. “Yet I still never succeed in wooing you.” I smile. That is one of Atticus’s talents. He can lighten the mood easily.

Tilting my head, I raise an eyebrow. “Are you certain you’re in your late twenties? Because I think you might be younger than me with the things you say.” I tease. ” Wooing? Who uses that word?”

says, smiling slightly. There’s a sadness in his eyes but although I feel sorry for him, there is nothing

who causes a storm inside of me, even when I thought I was done with him. Deep down, I know I still have

mind. “Sebastian, I have a question for you.”

him, only to realise he’s staring at me, a frown on his face as if he’s seen a ghost or something.

My heart skips a beat. Did I? “I… Sorry, it could possibly be because of everything

He cocks a brow.

much I can see, and I’m relieved when the waitress puts the two glasses

Jai, Sebastian King’s previous Beta, and I guess it’s what he said that makes me think about everything that happened between Sebastian and me.” I push a strand of my hair

I nod.

to him or Jai?” “Jai, I just told you, Jai reached out to me, actually regarding my friend,” I say, his reaction

asks. “She came to the New years’ eve party, Valerie Scott. She’s a doctor. She’s been in a coma for the last three years.” I say quietly, taking a sip of my champagne. He frowns, but there’s nothing on his face that gives away he knows, but it’s been a

he had told me and that he had been the one that reached out to me, asking

happened to her that night she came to the ball. On New years when they returned from your pack, she was found at her apartment with the head injury.” I explain. Just the thought sends shivers

about to reply when the waitress is back carrying a large tray and begins to place the plates on the table in front of us. Once she’s

sorry, I never knew.” He says, shaking his

expected you to know… only Jai told me that Sebastian went to your pack a week later to tell me, and apparently,

heartbeat, the way he swallows but not once does his facial

he knows…

a coma, and to come visit her… correct?” I ask, saying these words out loud

and seeing the guilt he’s trying to hide… I know my reaction all depends on

shakes his head. “Look… he came, but I was under the impression you didn’t want to talk to him. You had left by then and I wanted to help you,

that we were a

told me anyone was in a coma. He simply said he

not liking where

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