And Then There Were Four (Lilith Carrie)

Chapter 96: Uncertain Futures

As soon as the party was over and everyone had gone, I helped my mom and Kate move everything I had received up into the nursery. Not twenty minutes into working, Damian found me, and the scowl on his face spoke volumes to his mood.

“Damian, if you have come to yell at me, please don’t.”

My mother and Kate stopped in their tracks as they glanced towards where Damian stood off to the side. My eyes were concentrating on the beautiful mobile in my hand. The celestial crystal was mesmerizing, and as I looked up towards the cribs, I tried to think of where to hang it.

“Ivy, we need to talk,” Damian said, causing a sigh to escape me.

“I figured you would want to.” I turned to him. “Kate, can you hang this over the twins’ cribs please?”

Handing the mobile to Kate, I moved towards Damian and exited the nursery making my way towards his room. “Let’s talk.”

When the door to his room closed behind me, I turned to face him, and the look in his eyes was no longer of anger but extreme remorse. “Why did you interfere today, Ivy?”

“What do you mean, why? You’re my mate, Damian. I won’t let them take you from me.”

Shaking his head, he moved towards me and lowered himself onto the bed. “I don’t deserve you, though. I was willing to go with them in order to protect you.”

“Protect me? What are you talking about?”

As his eyes met mine, I watched the tears build within him he refused to let fall. “They want to kill you, Ivy. You’re a threat to them, and if they take you out, they dismantle our pack.”

I hadn’t really thought too much about what he was saying before, but honestly, it made a lot of sense. If I was in their position, I would do the same.

“That doesn’t mean that you sacrifice yourself for me, Damian. You’re needed here, and we have two beautiful children on the way that are going to need you. You don’t just try and throw that all away.” 

“I wasn’t throwing it away,” he scoffed. “Plus, what good am I going to be to them? I’m broken, Ivy.”

Never had I once seen Damian in the state he was. He was literally sulking, and something deeper was bothering him. Stepping closer to him, I ran my hand over the side of

his face and smiled.

“I can see that you’re hiding something from me, and until we talk about it, things are going to remain as they are.”

“I’m fine,” he sighed, moving his face from my hand.

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me why you think you’re

something easily explained, Ivy.” He stood to his feet. “If I tell you, you’re going to look at me

back since the moment I got here. If I was going to pass judgment like that, I would have

it was conflicted him, and I hated it. For him to think he couldn’t talk to me because I would think ill of him was ridiculous, but I was patient.

losing my

came out of his mouth were not what I expected. It wasn’t possible for him to lose his wolf. He was a werewolf. It was who he

make sense. You’re

I feel it. It’s like part of me is slipping away, and I don’t know what’s going to happen to me. That’s why I was fine

didn’t you tell me

know, Ivy. It isn’t like we have ever really had the chance

saying. He wasn’t

honestly don’t know what to say. I mean… what would cause you to lose yourself? Like I said.. You’re a

he replied, staring at me.

to.”

was heavy in his tone, and that annoyed me more than anything. “Don’t act like that. I’m only being honest, Damian. This is serious, and if you really think

“Well, I’ll go talk to her then.

after him as he walked out of the open doorway, disappearing from my sight. “Are you f*****g kidding me, man?”

back down the hallways where Damian had gone.

his mind, and he thought I could help, but honestly, this is something I wouldn’t even

looked down at me with a grin. “Something

the world’s issues, Hale. Plus, this is something that needs far more care than I can give him. I don’t even know how to fix my own problems. How the hell am I supposed to

Ivy. You

I groaned. “I’m not a goddess. I don’t know why everyone seems to think that

eyes to his and stared intently. “Don’t ever say that. You’re not a murderer, lvy. What you did was to protect your family, and is one of us had been in

just saying that,” I sighed. “No, I’m serious. If I had

and I had

kissed me gently. Hale kissed me gently. “Exactly. So for now, don’t let it bother you,

go down to the training field and help James. I will be back later, though. Are you going to be

“Of course. I’m just going to finish helping my mom and

in Damian’s bedroom doorway by myself. Watching him walk down the hall towards the stairs, I left an

I wanted was to move past what I was and become accepted as I should be. From everything I had read

given me… I wasn’t living

laughing face came into view as she exited the nursery with my mother. I had to find something-anything-to

me with small smiles and questioning glances. “Everything okay?”

I’m good. Damian was just going over to safety stuff they

Kate replied. “With how things went today with the