I Am The Luna

I Am The Luna by Moonlight Muse Chapter 34

A Couple of Plans

ZAIA. “Zaia, is everything ok?” I look up at Mom from where I’m slicing the potatoes for the evening meal.

“Of course, why do you ask?” I smile. Mom looks concerned from where she’s braiding Sia’s hair at the kitchen table.

“You don’t cook unless you have a lot on your mind.” She says with a knowing look of understanding in her eyes.

I returned yesterday morning and although I filled her in on everything with Valerie; I refrained from telling her what went down between Sebastian and me.

I don’t know why, but I know how she would have disapproved of me spending the night with him, and that would only make me feel worse…

My heart clenches as I remember that morning….

(FLASHBACK)

My eyes flutter open and I find myself cocooned in warmth. I snuggle back against the hard wall of muscle behind me when I tense. Wall of muscle?

Sebastian!

I’m about to pull away when I realise that my head is on his arm, his hand clamped around my breast, his other arm firmly around my hips, holding me tightly against him…

He’s asleep, I can tell from his steady heartbeat…

“Sleep Foxie…” He murmurs, burying his face into my neck. “You smell good…”

He used to always hold me like this…

I don’t want to get up. For a fleeting moment, I want to enjoy the warmth and comfort that his embrace offers me…

Irritation at my weak resolve makes me glare at the wall, and I slowly free myself from his hold. I have to make sure I never get into this predicament ever again! I need to leave…

(END OF FLASHBACK)

Mom says, making me look

well it isn’t a complete lie. Valerie has been on my mind, and I have been doing some research. “Oh, you are thinking about the

know in this day and age the

Jai going to ask Sebastian to allow

for Jai, he listens,” I say shortly. I have made it clear we will not discuss

my eyes, hoping she didn’t catch my tone, and if she did, that she plays it off to

who would want us apart? Who

Zaia, it isn’t your fault you didn’t know about Valerie,” Mom says as Sia slides off the stool and walks

She says, giving me an adorable smile as she holds her paper up to me. I crouch down and take it

Aunty Valerie, then the moon will heal her.” She says in her adorable little voice. I look at her sharply, my heart skipping a beat.

wrap my arms around my little princess and hug her tightly. “That is the perfect

Sia. “Yes, deep down, I feel that this will help. We are werewolves, Mom. When I was there, there was brain

Sia asks. I nod. I told them a little about Valerie when they asked where I

of course, asked many questions. They may be three years old, but they are bright. I’m just waiting for the day that

in my new office, one floor up, at the Toussaint Headquarters, and he has just placed a file down in front of me. I glance up at him curiously before looking down

to lose focus on what I am doing,

aside the file and cross my legs as I look across at him. He’s agitated,

else the matter, Father?” I ask, frowning slightly. “No, aside from someone else stepping in on the Zero project, there’s a high chance we might lose that deal.” He grunts. “If we had Atticus’s backup, I think we could

him for

one by the mountains… look, Dad, don’t worry, I’m flying out there for the meeting and I’m extremely confident I’ll get the deal. What company has joined the race?” I ask, tapping my pen on

a beat at the mention of Sebastian. Why would he do that? Everyone knows that our company is interested in that

my mind again,

it’s why I don’t think

standing up. “I worked on this project for so long, I will not let anyone take it from me, not you Dad, or Sebastian. If he wants to compete for it, then I’m up for the competition, but I am not taking a back seat!”

hatred for Sebastian has only grown over the past years. Whilst he came to accept. and approve of Atticus, his resentment for Sebastian and

will come with

“No. You need to be

your Mother can come along too and mind them. I think the trip will do them good too and Sia can enjoy the fresh

babies are near would be good. “And will your wife be alright with that?” I ask

“She doesn’t “Security-”

children, here or abroad.” He says firmly. “No one, not even

one thing that I appreciate the most and I won’t ever forget it, no matter what the future holds. “Thank you. I

“Or perhaps Atticus-”

be someone. Besides, I don’t think it’s smart for me to go with him when the rumours are already spread all

are a few photographs. Me and Atticus. at the party, a blurred image at the fountain, me

good with the kids and from what I can see, you

said, I’m not interested,” I

the way he had made out that we were together back then. The way he had said the kids were his… those red flags I had forgotten about now itch at my mind. He did things when I didn’t ask