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.

LD

you’re not. Now tell me why you think you’re

stood to his feet. “If I tell you, you’re going to

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

think he couldn’t talk to me because I would think ill of him was ridiculous, but I was patient. I would wait if

losing my

his mouth were not what I expected. It wasn’t possible for him to lose his wolf. He was a

sense.

and I don’t know what’s going to happen to me. That’s why I was fine with taking your place for judgment,” he

didn’t you tell me this

hands up in the air, he gave a soft desperate laugh, “I don’t know, Ivy. It isn’t like we have ever really

he was saying. He wasn’t making sense, and for him to

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

at me. “Priscilla

to.”

Damian. This is serious, and if you really think you are, we need to find out from someone why

door. “Well, I’ll go talk to her then. I’m sorry to have

of the open doorway, disappearing from my sight. “Are you

was that about?” Hale asked in confusion as he glanced at me, and then back down the hallways where Damian had gone.

some s’it on his mind, and he thought I could help, but honestly, this is something I wouldn’t even know how to deal

close, he looked down at me with a grin.

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

You

I don’t know why everyone seems

say that. You’re not a murderer, lvy. What you did was to protect your family, and is one of us had

“No, I’m serious. If I had been in your position, I

kept drifting back to what Damian had said. I was worried, and I had every right to be. The thought I could

things one day at a time.” Hale kissed me gently. Hale kissed me gently. “Exactly.

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

forced smile. “Of course. I’m just going to finish helping

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

was to move past what I was and become accepted as I should

Priscilla had given me… I wasn’t living like

laughing face came into view as she exited the nursery with my mother. I

small smiles and questioning glances. “Everything okay?”

Damian was just going over to safety stuff they are going to

idea,” Kate replied. “With how things went