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?”

slightly. There’s a sadness in his eyes but although I feel sorry for him, there is nothing I can offer him. I don’t

is someone who causes a storm inside of me, even when I thought I was done with him. Deep down, I

I can’t help the trouble that settles in my mind. “Sebastian,

a frown on his face as if

I? “I… Sorry, it could

He cocks a brow.

exactly is going on?” He’s annoyed, that much I can see, and I’m relieved when the waitress puts the two glasses on the table and pours us both a glass

friend from my previous pack is in a coma. I spoke to 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 nod.

told you, Jai reached out to me, actually regarding my friend,” I say,

is this?” He 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

it out that he had told me and that he had been the one that reached out to me, asking if I wanted to say goodbye to her.

when they returned from your pack, she was found at her apartment with the head injury.” I explain. Just the thought sends

about to reply when the waitress is back carrying a large tray and begins to

never knew.” He says, shaking

Sebastian went to your pack a week later to tell me, and apparently, I turned him away,”

racing as I watch him, I hear the quickening of his heartbeat, the way he swallows

he knows…

come visit her… correct?”

knowing that he remembers and seeing the guilt he’s trying to hide… I know my reaction

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, hence why I didn’t tell him that you were

you want him to continue to think my children were yours and that we were a couple?” I ask quietly. There’s a flicker of

really remember. It’s been three. years, and I don’t think he specifically told me anyone was in a coma. He simply said he had something

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