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

tell me why

stood to his feet. “If I tell

assume things, Damian. We have been through hell and back since the moment I got here. If I was going

whatever 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. I would wait if

losing

out of his mouth were not what I expected. It wasn’t possible for

that doesn’t make sense. You’re a werewolf,

know what’s going to happen to me. That’s why I was fine with taking your place for judgment,” he replied as if that was

you tell me

desperate laugh, “I don’t know, Ivy. It isn’t like we have ever really had the chance to talk

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

I breathed. “I honestly don’t know what to say. I mean… what would cause you to lose yourself? Like

me. “Priscilla

to.”

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 your aunt… I mean, she should know

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

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

he glanced at me, and then back down the

“He just has some s’it on his mind, and he thought I could help, but honestly, this is something I

me close, he looked down at me with a grin. “Something big bad Ivy can’t handle?

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

Ivy. You

goddess. I don’t know why everyone seems to think that

You’re not a murderer, lvy. What you did was to protect

had been in

were slightly comforting, but my mind kept drifting back to what Damian had said. I was worried, and I had every right to be. The thought I could possibly lose him

gently. Hale

have to go down to the training field and help James. I will be

course. I’m just going to finish helping my mom and Kate put some things up. I’ll be

he whispered as he turned and left me standing in Damian’s bedroom doorway by myself.

only thing I wanted was to move past what I was and become accepted as I

me… I wasn’t living

with my mother. I had to find something-anything-to preoccupy

at me with small smiles and questioning glances. “Everything

Damian was just going over to safety stuff they are

things went today