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

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

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

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

looking down. My heart skips a beat. Did I? “I… Sorry, it could

He cocks a brow.

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

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

I nod.

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

been in a coma for the last three years.” I say

one that reached out to me, asking if I wanted to say goodbye to

nod. “Yeah, it happened to her that night she came to the ball. On New years when they returned from your pack, she was found at her apartment with the head injury.” I explain. Just the

is back carrying a large tray and begins to place the plates on the table in front of us. Once

I never knew.” He says, shaking

a week later to tell me, and apparently, I turned him away,” I say, trying to remain calm despite the surge of emotions

quickening of his heartbeat, the way he swallows

he knows…

a coma, and to come visit her… correct?” I ask, saying these words out loud leaves a bad

my appetite and knowing that he remembers and seeing the guilt he’s trying to hide… I know my reaction all depends on his

you didn’t want to talk to him. You had left by then and I wanted to help you, hence why I didn’t

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

think he specifically told me anyone was in

where this is

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