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?”

his eyes but although I feel sorry for him, there is nothing I can offer him.

causes a storm inside of me, even when I thought I was done with

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

only to realise he’s staring at me, a frown

beat. Did I? “I… Sorry, it could possibly be because of everything going on.” I

He cocks a brow.

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

it’s what he said that makes me think about everything that happened between Sebastian and me.” I

I nod.

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

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 on

said to make sure I made 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. “I see. I’m sorry

that night she came to the ball. On New years when they returned from your pack,

begins to place the plates on the

I never knew.” He says, shaking his

Jai told me that Sebastian went to your pack a week later to tell me, and apparently, I turned him away,” I say, trying to remain calm despite the surge of

him, I hear the quickening of his heartbeat, the

he knows…

in a coma, and to come visit her… correct?”

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

had left by then and I wanted to help you, hence why I didn’t

you want him to continue to think my children were yours and that we were a couple?” I

told me anyone was in a coma. He

not liking where

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