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."

right. But feel free to call them names when it's just us. It can be wicked or gross, I don't mind. The uglier, the

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 a good memory

dropped, and her shoulders

I say something bad?" I asked, furrowing

of course, I'd remember everything we talked about, as I barely

friends and would occasionally visit women from different departments and centers of the pack, but she rarely

I asked. I might know the answer already, but I still didn't want

She answered before drawing her gaze to the window beside her. "I tried to be friendly at the

not telling them you didn't

Maybe not. Maybe

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, and we would chat for a while. Other

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 must have been beautiful!" Her

did I give

nodded, but she didn't say

"On ordinary days?"

shook her head. The glow

punching myself for

earlier when I told her about the

flowers during special occasions," I cut her off. "I gave

wasn't the type to give flowers, but I wanted to learn more about our relationship

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

ass for a husband, yet

ADESSA.