I Am The Luna

Move away from bet?” Atticus snarts, grabbing my arm and yanking me behind bum protective, the towers he had passed me falling to the floor.

Gade doesn’t move, but I see the way his jaw tightens, and the flicker of blue in Is, and the filcker of blue in his eve as he stands there, emotionless and calm on top, but I know that beneath that external tagade he almost comitered.

“Unband her. Now,” he says, his words chillingly cold.

For a second, I am looking at this from Atticus’s point of view and I remember Zade isn’t just the guy who’s giving me hugs that feel like the safest place in the work, not the guy who takes all my shit, but he’s also extremely powerful…

And dangerous if he wants to be.

“I’m ok,” I say to him softly, hoping he realises that this is just Atticus being at big brother. Zade’s eyes flash again, and this time, there’s a glint in his eyes.

“I think she’s old enough to make her own decisions, Payne, I don’t like my woman being manhandled by anyone.” There’s a menacing warning in his voice, no matter how calm his tone is.

Who

threats don’t bother me. You left and you’ve been up to? Do you really

her being alone with me. As for the tracker; I was promised freedom, yet I was bound. I didn’t ask for any of it. But since your people made the decision, it was up to me what I did

clear

towards Atticus like a predator ready to slice into its

decision came with terms.” Atticus snarls.

down. It’s a relief that Zade has been here with me… if he wasn’t I’d have been raped and dead long ago.” I say, my stomach churning at the thought. Atticus‘ eyes flicker with surprise and Zade reaches for me, not bothering that he is close to Atticus who might just attack, as he takes my arm, and pulls me free from

Atticus, almost as

sighs, his brows furrowing and I’m grateful he stopped himself. Those words that he almost spoke would have cut deeper if he had finished the sentence.

“Atticus…”

isn’t good for you… Valerie… remember who he is. He

“He was… so was Sebastian-”

path in the end and as much as I hate defending

right thing when he surrendered. Tell me Atticus, if Zaia was the

Zade before turning to me fleetingly and then looking away for a split second, giving me the answer he has

all know he loved Zaia deeply. Sometimes I honestly felt he was better for her than Sebastian, but the heart wants what the heart wants… and their love has always been strong, even if they had a lot of

are a thousand differences between him and Zaia. She’s different.” Atticus tries to get me to

can see that,” Zade says, cutting this conversation