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?”

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

of me, even when I thought I was done with him. Deep

trouble that settles in my mind. “Sebastian, I

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

“I… Sorry, it could possibly

He cocks a brow.

I’m relieved when the waitress puts the two glasses on

found out that my 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 push a strand of my

I nod.

“Jai, I just told you, Jai reached out to me, actually

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.

the one that reached out to me, asking if I wanted to say goodbye to her. “I see. I’m sorry about that,” he

ball. On New years when they returned from your pack, she was found at her apartment with the head

a large tray and begins to

I never knew.” He says, shaking

a week later to tell me, and apparently, I turned him away,” I say,

watch him, I hear the quickening of his heartbeat, the way he swallows but not

he knows…

told you to tell me that Valerie was attacked and is in a coma, and to come visit her… correct?” I ask, saying these words out loud leaves a

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

him. You had left by then and I

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

remember. It’s been three. years, and I don’t think he specifically told

not liking where

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