I Am The Luna (Moonlight Muse) novel Chapter 463

I can hear them talking. There’s a window open somewhere, but I remain where I am, smoking my cigarette.

“…joining us?” Zaia’s faint voice reaches me.

“No,” Valerie’s voice comes.

“Oh…”

“Sorry,” Valerie’s quiet voice comes.

“Don’t be. He has every right to do what feels best for him,” Hugh says.

He could have been the one dead… Jai could have been alive and with Valerie… I push the intruding thought away. Seeing him had brought those memories back with vengeance. What if he had been the one I managed to kill?

Not knowing the truth, if I killed him, would I have regretted it?

But then again, I have done enough to fuel the demons within my mind.

“Dad, is everything alright?” Zaia asks.

“Yes, however, life is short… and so, with your blessing of course, Atticus… I want to ask Shelby to marry me,” Hugh’s voice comes. “I mean, I have had this conversation with you, Atticus, a while back, but I hope it still stands, even if her health is not at its best. I still want her to be my wife.”

There are a few gasps.

“Hot diggedy!” The Menace exclaims as Valerie and Zaia sound excited as they kind of, squeal? Sounds like that anyway.

Women can be weird…

“Atticus?” Valerie asks, clearly waiting for his input.

“I’m all for it. Atticus loves to collect sisters anyway, he and Zaia would make amazing siblings,” Sebastian taunts mockingly.

The bastard hasn’t changed at all.

“Sebastian!” Zaia scolds lightly.

“I wouldn’t mind that. And Hugh, I am moved,” Atticus begins. There’s clearly some surprise from him as there’s silence before Sebastian speaks again.

“Hold up, you wouldn’t mind being her stepbrother?”

“No,” Atticus replies. “It’s not every day you find the right one. I wish you and Mom all the happiness in the world.” He’s acting weird. He has been pretty much all day.

I pause as I tilt my head up sharply, staring ahead.

His behaviour, his distracted persona all day.

Adriana…

By any chance are they… mates?

Every single interaction, and the behaviour between him and Adriana, and what she said to me upon leaving all seems to click into place and point in that direction.

What the actual fuck?

That… posh dude with Adriana? No, that’s a bad fucking match. But who am I to question that shit when me and Val are worlds apart?

Then why did she leave? Did he reject her? Is that why she left?

Anger ripples through me. If that is the case, I won’t be letting this slide.

You don’t treat my pack members like that.