The Forgotten Luna by Cassandra M

Chapter 56

KAEL.

Adessa's eyes fluttered open. She was looking straight ahead, still lost in her thoughts, and I just let her be. We were already threading a narrow, rough road through the deep part of the forest. The canopies of the trees filtered the sun, casting shadows across the path

and making the area darker and gloomy, even if it was already midmorning.

The road was barely wide enough for a car, but it only meant I was in the right direction. It had been almost a decade since I'd been here, but it looked and felt the same.

"Where are we heading?" she finally asked, breaking the silence between us.

"We need a place to stay for at least a day so you can rest, and I can make some adjustments on our way to the north."

"This seems to be too far from civilization already."

"Are you scared of where I would take you?" I teased her.

She turned her head to me, and a smile slowly curled on her red lips. "You can tell me we're on the road to hell, and I will still come with you. Hell with you sounds better than alone and with Alpha Draco."

I smiled and focused my eyes on the road, as I knew I needed to do a right turn soon. "You can drop the Alpha in his name."

"I've been wanting to. But the last time I dropped the Alpha from another Alpha's name, you went ballistic."

I chuckled. She wasn't wrong there, but Rasmus was totally different from Draco. "My bad. Call them by their first name if you're more comfortable with it."

"Unless it's a formal gathering or meeting." She added. "That's what you told me before."

them names when it's just us. It can be wicked or gross, I don't

lap before she spoke. "Tell me again, you have no memory of our time together? Because you've said those words, not word by word but almost exactly!" "And tell me, why do you have such

face dropped, and

bad?" I asked, furrowing my

Not that it's a bad thing, but I mean, of course,

occasionally visit women from different

don't you have friends?" I asked. I might know the

beside her. "I tried to be friendly at the beginning, but after many unwelcome faces and

about me not telling them you didn't steal

Maybe not.

She then turned her head to meet my gaze, forcing a smile on her face. "But the lady in the flower shop where I get all the flowers I decorate our home- mean, your house-she was nice and lovely. She would offer coffee,

must be the woman who gave a bouquet of flowers for you when I was in the plaza one time. You just left then, but I took it with me and put it in my office at the Central Hall." "She did? Wow. It

me, did I give

nodded, but she didn't say anything

"On ordinary days?"

The glow on her

sorry." I felt like punching myself for

smiled, but it wasn't the same smile she had earlier when I told her about the flowers the woman gave her. "Flowers are

special occasions," I cut her off.

the type to give flowers, but I wanted to learn more

She turned her head away again. "He would always come with flowers and cards.

an ass for a husband,

ADESSA.