Alpha’s Rue: His Shunned Luna (Athena Enchanted) novel Chapter 469

Chapter 469

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“No, she’ll be back here in two months. She only took leave from VU, so she’s coming back, and she’ll have the baby here, I think…” I trail off. Noah and didn’t talk about that, only that she’d be back after two months for work. “I hope she does come back because I want to be there.”

“You’ll be there, even if it’s not here.”

“I thought she was only here to visit, but she likes Mooncrest a lot, and she wasn’t giving it up because of what happened with Rowan and Danielle,” I tell him. “She’s grown attached to everything here, her house, her job, the pack itself.”

“I had them find a temporary replacement for you.” He grumbles.

“Who?”

“At VU,” he yawns. “I know you hadn’t signed the official papers, but I wanted you to decide for yourself.”

“Um, that’s not something that I want right now.” I don’t like what I imagine when I think of the day I’ll be back at VU. The last few weeks have been a little overstimulating, and there’s no way in hell I can face my students again. Or even a fresh set, I don’t think they want to learn from a crazy woman and as the crazy woman, I don’t want them questioning my intellect at something that I’m good at. “But I’d love to go back someday. Wouldn’t want anyone thinking I’m crazy.”

“Nobody would think that,” he says, stroking my cheek with his thumb.

“Im fresh out of a mental institution.”

“They don’t know that,” he frowns. “As far as they know, you took leave because you were ill, and if anyone says some shit like that, let me know.”

“What will you do?”

He shrugs, his lips twitching a smile. “What needs to be done.”

I yawn, the drowsiness starting to creep in, but I’m not in a rush to go to bed at all. “Sleepy?”

“Yeah,” I nod, yawning again. “But Noah is talking to Rowan outside, so I don’t have to get to bed in a

rush.”

“Do you want to be cuddled?”

“Do you?” I counter, an eyebrow raised at him.

I expect to see some shock or an inflation of his ego at my question, but instead he nods. “Definitely.”

“Oh, well.” I shift, lying down now. “Come here then, I’ll hold you until you fall asleep.”

Kingston stares at me. “Shouldn’t it be the other way around?”

“There are no rules around cuddling,” I laugh. “So unless it hurts your ego-”

“In my prison,” he instantly retorts, his tone dismissive. “Let’s talk about him, I don’t want you remembering what that sick bastard tried to do to you.”

I hate to think about it too, and it’s been days since I’ve even remembered that. Noah has been one hell of a distraction, in all the best ways. She and I just seem to bond over anyway now, it sucks that we share the same trauma, but having someone who has been down that road definitely helps a ton. Dr Whitmore is just as Evelyn said, fantastic, but he hasn’t exactly been in my shoes, so sometimes I want to disregard things that he says.

“Can we talk about Noah, Rowan and Danielle then?”

“Best not to get involved,” he sighs. “But do you think they can get back together?”

I almost laugh, he said “no” and “yes” in the very same sentence. “She definitely has her heart open towards that, but it’s too soon. She claims she’s done with them. She felt like they had picked each other

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