I Am The Luna

I Am The Luna by Moonlight Muse Chapter 35

A Dinner

ZAIA. “I love this place,” Atticus says as he sits back as the waitress walks away after taking our orders. We are in a dimly lit, stunning restaurant that serves a variety of cuisines; the booths are covered with lush green velvet and the woodwork is all a deep mahogany.

Chandeliers hang above each table and we both head to the back into one of the semi- permanent booths which are covered from three sides.

I nod, glancing around before I lean back against the lush seats. “We do come here often,” I say, adjusting the strap to my dark blue dress.

He nods, watching me. His eyes soften, and I feel his eyes skim over me. “You look beautiful tonight, but when don’t you?”

I look up at him, my heart skipping a beat as tension falls between us.

“Thanks.” Today is the first time we’re meeting properly alone since the proposal. I am so lost in my own thoughts and what I am going to ask him tonight that I forgot that part.

“We do come here often.” He says, clearing his throat. “Yet I still never succeed in wooing you.” I smile. That is one of Atticus’s talents. He can lighten the mood easily.

Tilting my head, I raise an eyebrow. “Are you certain you’re in your late twenties? Because I think you might be younger than me with the things you say.” I tease. ” Wooing? Who uses that word?”

“I do.” He says, smiling slightly. There’s a sadness in his eyes but although I feel sorry for him, there is nothing I can offer him. I don’t feel the attraction that he does for me.

me, even when I thought I was done with

beyond repair, I can’t help the trouble that settles in my mind. “Sebastian, I have a

he’s staring at me, a frown on his face as if he’s seen

skips a beat. Did I? “I… Sorry, it could possibly be because of everything going on.” I say,

He cocks a brow.

is going on?” He’s annoyed, that much I can see, and I’m relieved when the waitress puts the two glasses on the table and pours

found out that my friend from my previous pack is in a coma. I spoke to Jai, Sebastian King’s previous Beta, and I guess it’s what he said that makes me think about everything that happened between Sebastian and me.” I push a strand of my hair behind

I nod.

him or Jai?” “Jai, I just told you, Jai reached out to me,

is this?” He asks. “She came to the New years’ eve party, Valerie Scott. She’s a doctor. She’s been in a coma for the last three years.” I say quietly, taking a sip of my champagne. He frowns, but there’s nothing on his face that gives

been the one that reached out to me, asking if I

ball. On New years when they returned from your pack,

large tray and begins to place the plates on the table in front of

sorry, I never knew.” He says, shaking

expected you to know… only Jai told me that Sebastian went to your pack a week later to tell

I watch him, I hear the quickening of his heartbeat, the way he swallows but not once does his facial expression change, but the

he knows…

you to tell me that Valerie was attacked and is in a coma, and to come visit her… correct?” I ask, saying these words out loud leaves a bad

my appetite and knowing that he remembers and seeing the guilt he’s trying to hide… I know my reaction

frowns and shakes his head. “Look… he came, but I was under the impression you didn’t want to talk to him. You had left by then and I wanted to help you, hence

yours and that we were a couple?” I ask quietly. There’s a flicker of unease in

remember. It’s been three. years, and I don’t think he specifically told me anyone was in a

not liking where

Sebastian, he’s an idiot… but I

I know he wouldn’t

definitely told you she was attacked. Perhaps you didn’t hear or weren’t listening, but not once did I