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, IvyYou’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

Now tell me why you think

stood to his feet. “If I

I got here. If I was going to pass judgment like that, I

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. I would

i’m losing my

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

that doesn’t make sense.

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

he gave a soft desperate laugh, “I don’t know, Ivy.

tried to wrap my mind around what he was saying. He wasn’t making sense,

to talk to Priscilla about this, Damian.” I breathed. “I honestly don’t know what to say. I mean…

he replied, staring at me. “Priscilla is

to.”

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 you are, we need to find out from someone why that would be. She’s

way towards the door. “Well, I’ll go talk to her

walked out of the open doorway, disappearing from my sight. “Are you f*****g

back down the hallways where Damian had gone. “Don’t tell me you guys are fighting

I sighed as I walked towards him. “He just has some s’it on his mind, and he thought I

with a grin. “Something big bad Ivy can’t

 

more care than I can give him.

goddess, Ivy. You will figure

don’t know why everyone seems to think

you did was to protect your family, and

I’m serious. If I had been in your position, I would have

drifting back to what Damian had said. I was worried, and I had every right to be. The thought I could possibly lose him wasn’t

we can only take things one day at a time.” Hale kissed me gently. Hale kissed me gently. “Exactly. So

field and help James. I will be back later,

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

then,” he whispered as he turned and left me standing in Damian’s bedroom doorway by myself. Watching him walk down the hall towards the stairs,

I wanted was to move past what I was

me… I wasn’t living like a

into view as she exited the nursery with my

looked at me with small smiles and questioning glances.

was just going over to safety stuff they are going to

good idea,” Kate replied. “With how things went today with the council guys,

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