Pursuing My Rejected Luna by Cara Anderson novel Chapter 274

Ch. 44

Noah

It’s been two days since my confrontation with Piper about my relationship with Cassandra. The one where I finally told her the

truth.

Two days to think about what the hell I’m doing with my life and who I’m doing it with. And while that was long enough for me to make some important decisions, it’s still way too short to convince my wolf those decisions are the right ones.

Not that my timeline matters much right now. None of my decisions mean anything until Piper makes her own. And I know her well enough by now to know when Piper makes a decision, she makes it and then she shows up to deliver it. She’s not in the habit of drawing it out just to make a point.

So I’m not the least bit surprised when she comes to my office ready to talk. Private. Deliberate. Determined. She looks like a woman who has been doing some real thinking and arrived at a decision she’s comfortable with. I’m just not sure she’s decided

it’s me.

I’ve always found confidence in a woman sexy and she’s no exception. Piper exudes it now, standing in my doorway with her arms loose at her sides and that self-assured smile of hers. She knows what she wants. Apparently, I’m about to find out what

that is.

“I need to know one thing before I say what I came to say.” She informs me, her hip cocked to one side and her eyes narrowed at

“Oh, yeah? What’s that?” I grin at her sassy attitude, stalking toward her. But she just smirks and puts a hand to my chest to

hold me back.

I grab her hand and place a kiss on her palm, but keep my distance, respecting her space. She melts into me for a minute, then her head snaps up, fixing her eyes on mine.

“Are you choosing me?” Her expression turns serious. “Or are you just choosing not to deal with the harder thing? Forgiving your fated mate?”

I’m never quite prepared for the way Piper manages to get right to the heart of the matter. In this case, the honest answer lives somewhere in the complicated territory between those two options. But I know which side of the line I’m standing on and I know which direction I’m facing. I can give her that much.

“I’m choosing you,” I say with certainty, closing the distance between us and whispering the rest in her ear. “Fate can go fuck itself.”

She pulls back and gasps dramatically, her hand coming over her chest. “Noah Stephens! Braving the Moon Goddess’ wrath for me?” She teases, using her most scandalized tone before turning serious. “But if you’re sure, then I’m here.”

“Oh I’m sure.” I pull her close again and press my lips to hers.

I just wish my wolf agreed.

“I don’t want to talk about her unless it’s absolutely necessary. She has no place with us.” Piper makes this clear, breaking our kiss to look at me directly.

It’s another thing I appreciate about her. She doesn’t play games, just deals with the thing that matters and doesn’t waste time on the thing that would only make both of us feel worse.

“And I want complete honesty,” she insists. “The full-picture, not the bullshit snippets you tried to feed me the first time. If something is happening, if something changes, I hear it from you.”

“Yes, ma’am” I murmur as I nibble down her neck. “You have my word.”

I mean it. I really do. But I’m also aware that, while I mean it, the full picture currently includes a medical diagnosis she knows

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nothing about a diagnosis that is directly relevant to every decision she’s made about me since she decided to keep seeing me. Which is a significant violation of the promise I just made..

Tonight is not the night to address it, Itell myself. Tonight I’m choosing Piper, and I mean it, and that has to be enough for right

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