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

storm inside of me, even when I thought I

beyond repair, I can’t help the trouble that settles in my mind. “Sebastian, I have a question

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

heart skips a beat. Did I? “I… Sorry, it

He cocks a brow.

relieved when the waitress puts the two glasses on the table and pours us both a glass of

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

I nod.

Jai reached

doctor. She’s been in a coma for the last three years.” I say quietly, taking a sip of my champagne. He frowns, but

it out that he had told me and that he had been the one that reached out to me, asking if

years when they returned from your pack, she was found at her apartment with the head injury.” I

is back carrying a large tray and begins to place the plates on the

sorry, I never knew.” He

Sebastian went to your pack a week later to tell me, and apparently, I

the way he swallows but not once does his facial expression change, but the signs

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 loud leaves

that he remembers and seeing the guilt he’s trying

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

yours and that we were a couple?” I ask quietly. There’s a flicker of unease

been three. years, and I don’t think he specifically told me anyone was

not liking where this is

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