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?”

eyes but although I feel sorry for him,

inside of me, even when I thought I was done with him. Deep down, I know I still have feelings

trouble that settles in my mind. “Sebastian, I have a question for you.” I begin slowly. “Will you promise to tell

staring at me, a frown on his face as if he’s seen a ghost or something. “What?” I

beat. Did I? “I… Sorry, it could possibly be because of everything going on.” I say, trying to cover my

He cocks a brow.

annoyed, that much I can see, and I’m relieved when the waitress puts the two glasses on the table and

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 push a strand of

I nod.

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

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,

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

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 down

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

I never knew.” He

know… only Jai told me that Sebastian went to your pack a week later to tell me, and apparently, I turned him away,” I say,

heart is racing as I watch him, I hear the quickening of his heartbeat, the way he swallows but not once

he knows…

a coma, and to come

he remembers and seeing the guilt he’s trying to hide… I

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

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

been three. years, and I don’t think he specifically told me anyone was in a coma. He simply said he

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