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 I can offer him. I

I was done with him. Deep down, I know

our relationship is beyond repair, I can’t help the trouble that settles in my mind. “Sebastian, I have

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

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

He cocks a brow.

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

he said that makes me think about everything that

I nod.

you, Jai reached out

“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

earlier, he 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,

came to the ball. On New years when they returned from your

carrying a large tray and begins to place the plates on the table in

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 emotions

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

he knows…

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

seeing the guilt he’s trying to hide…

You had left by then and I wanted to help you, hence why I didn’t tell him that you were no longer there.” He begins

to continue to think my children were yours and that we were a couple?” I ask quietly. There’s a flicker of unease in his eyes, and

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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