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

not. Now tell me why you think

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

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

it. For him to think he couldn’t talk to me because I would think ill of

losing

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

doesn’t 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 with taking

why didn’t you tell

in the air, he gave a soft desperate laugh, “I don’t know, Ivy. It isn’t like we have ever really had the chance to talk about

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

to say. I mean… what would cause you to

right,” he replied, staring at me. “Priscilla

to.”

“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 your aunt… I mean, she should know

way towards the door. “Well, I’ll go

out of the open doorway, disappearing from my

confusion as he glanced at me, and then back down the hallways

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

a

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

You

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

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 your position, we would have done it as

I had been in your position, I would have killed them

my mind kept drifting back to what Damian had said. I was worried, and I

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

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

I pulled away from him with a forced smile. “Of course. I’m just going to finish helping my mom and Kate put some things up. I’ll

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

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

books Priscilla had given me… I wasn’t living like a

view as she exited the nursery with my mother. I had to find something-anything-to preoccupy my mind. “Hey, wait

small smiles and questioning glances. “Everything okay?” My mother

good. Damian was just going over to safety

how things went