Chapter 0965

He has much less, doesn't he?

"It leaves us as friends, Luca," I say quietly, meaning it very much. He lifts his eyes to me with a sigh. "We...start over from there. See where it goes." I smirk a bit. "I still own half your gym, after all."

He huffs a laugh, looking to the side. "I know. My uncle is pissed."

"Your uncle is a dick," I say, dry. Luca laughs harder at this, turning that gorgeous smile on me. And, as usual, my stomach flips a bit at the sight. "Are you coming back to school?"

He shrugs, clearly implying that he's unsure.

"Think about it," I say on a long exhale. "And...we'll go from here. But I'm sorry, Luca. And I forgive you and I care about you a great deal. I'm...very happy that you came today."

"Yeah," he says on a sigh, slipping his hands into his pockets, regret taking his features as I take a step away. "I'm glad too."

"I'll see you soon?"

He shrugs, tacitly agreeing to it but unhappy that this apparently didn't go as planned. "I love you, Ariel."

give him my best smile - a true one, not a Princess Ariel

magazine to my chest and hurrying into the palace. As soon as I get inside I turn my mind away from Luca, knowing I've got more important things to deal with right now. I rush up the stairs, eager as hell to find my mate and fill him in, to assure him that

living room my eyes quickly sweep around, taking in Rafe, Mark, and Ben sitting around the coffee table with Jesse, a sleeping Seraphina sprawled chaotically over his lap.

cuz,” Jesse says, grinning wickedly at me. "What

to him over my shoulder, lifting a hand and letting a bit of

magazine?" Rafe calls after me, cheerful and entertained.

and working to steady my breath as I push open the door

the big Alpha

on

of the teeny tiny

of the room,

of the little girl who

his

I whisper,

that Jackson wasn't avoiding me - it's just that Marigold, like Seraphina, is exhausted and needed to go to bed. Relief flies through me as I push the door shut behind me and cross to them, only wondering for half a second how a kid

it. Of course she did.

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