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.

tracker. Who

you’ve been up to? Do you

promised freedom, yet I was bound. I didn’t ask for any of it. But

clear divide between us.

Atticus like a predator ready to slice into

with terms.” Atticus

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,

shoulders from behind, his eyes trained on Atticus, almost as

that he didn’t set it…” I gasp and Atticus 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

“Atticus…”

for you… Valerie… remember who he

“He was… so was

chose the right path in the end and as much as I hate defending him, he had

also chose to do the right thing when he surrendered. Tell me Atticus, if Zaia was the one chosen for the Sable, would you

hard and he tenses, glancing sharply at Zade before turning to me fleetingly and then looking away for a split second, giving me the answer he has not

Sebastian, but the heart wants what the heart wants… and their love has

differences between him and Zaia. She’s different.” Atticus tries to

can see that,” Zade says, cutting