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.

causes a storm inside of me, even when I thought I was done with him. Deep down, I know I still

the trouble that settles in my mind. “Sebastian, I have a question for you.” I begin slowly. “Will you promise to tell me

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

Did I? “I… Sorry, it could possibly be because

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 us both a glass

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

I nod.

you speak to him or Jai?” “Jai, I just told you, Jai reached out to me, actually regarding my

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

had been the one

years when they returned from your pack, she was found at her apartment with the head injury.” I explain. Just the thought sends shivers

large tray and begins to

I never knew.”

only Jai told me that Sebastian went to your pack a week later to tell me, and apparently, I turned him away,” I say, trying to remain calm despite the surge of emotions that course through

is racing as I watch him, I hear the quickening of his heartbeat, the way he swallows but not once

he knows…

to tell me that Valerie was attacked and is in a coma, and to come

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

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 his eyes,

been three. years, and I don’t think he specifically told me anyone was in a coma. He simply said he had

liking where this

Sebastian, he’s an idiot… but I don’t think

I know he

attacked. Perhaps you didn’t hear or weren’t listening, but not once did I ask you