Their Secret Obsession by Pippa Moon

Chapter 33: Holding Back!

I watched silently in the mirror as my Luna, whom I had grown up attending to and adoring, stood behind me, pinning my hair off my n*eck in a beautiful bun. She had left a few strands of icy white hair to frame my face, but she was adamant my hair was to be off my n*eck. And I wasn’t a fool; I understood why.

“Everyone will say my marks,” I whispered, following her in the mirror.

“Yes, dear, that is the point.” She grinned, twirling a hair around her finger and letting it bounce free.

“But… Tonight is about Lilly, not…”

“You?” She asked, pausing to look at me in the mirror, her brow furrowing. “I have many children, something Lilly needs to remember.” She winked, spinning the chair around so we no longer faced each other in the mirror but spoke face to face.

“I love my daughter like I love all my kids- you included.” Scrunching my nose at her comment, I tried to stifle a giggle because I knew she was trying to be sweet

and share a moment with me.

“What?” She asked, grinning as she spun me back around to look in the mirror.

“Just.. sounds funny when you say that, given that I am sleeping with the twins.. who are also your children..” I watched her close her eyes as she paled slightly.

“You and Knox are made for each other.” She muttered, rolling her eyes playfully, my heart soaring at the compliment she unwittingly had just given me. Smiling at her in the mirror, I turned back to look at her.

“I am grateful, though, for everything you have done for me.. after my mother… I just mean..”

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lightly. “Which is why I have no qualms asking you if you are sure this

sleeve, but he is impulsive, reckless at times and deadly when backed into a corner. That can be a lot to manage.

shook my head.

foul language, she always had, but

gentle and..” Pausing, I searched my mind for the word I wanted

“And Knox, he makes me smile; he keeps me sane and makes me feel special like I am the most beautiful thing he has

back?” She asked bluntly. My eyes burning with the hot tears I felt raining down my

best friend, and she

officially. And she will be when she

make everything ok..

decided if anyone would understand my fear, it would be her- The pack Luna!… She would be the one

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feel worthy. That was the truth of it; I opened my mouth to tell her my fears when the door to my room opened, expecting to see Kane or Knox. I sucked in a shaking breath seeing

my daughter.” He asked, his tone unlike Lauras’s; it held

clearly picking up on the nerves that were eating at me at the idea of being alone with the man who had fathered me. I watched her leave and wished I was going with her, wished I was

I nodded with the same level

He hissed, crossing the room with lightning speed, his hand gripping firmly around my n*eck as he hoisted me from the stool I sat on and pushed me back onto

deal! What had I done? I wanted to ask, but he pressed firmly, cutting

thirty seconds before the f**king twins barge in here, so let me make this quick! You WILL reject them! You will find a way out of this f**king bullshit! Or so help you! I will kill you myself before

doubt, because I had dared to question him. Seeing his foot lift too late, I squealed when pain tore through my ribs as my father’s foot slammed down on me

your Fiance! Ask him what price he had agreed