Ran Away Pregnant Came Back Alpha Heiress (Amelia and Damien) novel Chapter 388

Chapter 388

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Amelia’s POV

While the girls were awake, it was easy to distract my wandering thoughts by focusing on them, playing and laughing and asking about school and their friends. But when they went to bed, those invasive thoughts returned, having me check out the windows more than I liked, searching for a mystery man who might be watching me.

Damien didn’t seem to notice my concern, perhaps because he was dealing with his own thoughts. We both seemed caught up in our own problems tonight, staring off into space.

As Alpha, Damien had a lot on his plate at any given moment. He really didn’t need more.

I decided not to tell him about the strange man from earlier, the one I kept glancing out the window to find, afraid I might see him there in the bushes or the driveway, waiting to glare at me.

He had deeply unnerved me, but that didn’t mean he had been anyone really problematic from my past. If anything, I suspected it was someone who just didn’t like me that I simply couldn’t remember.

On instinct, I wanted to share what had happened with Damien, my husband. I didn’t believe in secrets between spouses. But at the same time, I knew how protective Damien was. If I were to tell him, he would likely overreact and become overprotective, perhaps even prohibiting me from leaving the house again, like he did before.

So I couldn’t tell him. Not this time, and especially not as we went together into the den for a glass of wine.

“How was your day?” Damien asked me.

“It was fine,” I said. Fine was maybe a suspicious word. Should I have said good? Great? Fantastic? No, that would have been too far in the other direction. Keeping secrets was difficult! Perhaps instead, I could focus on what I actually did. “The planning is going well.”

“None of the pack wives are giving you trouble?” he asked, glancing back at where I sat on the couch as he was at the bar counter pouring us two glasses of wine.

“They seem to think I am the same girl I was six years ago,” I told him. “I was happy to correct them.

He stilled in his pouring. “Do you need me to intervene?”

“No,” I said. “It’s better for me to do it myself. They will never take me seriously if they believe I need protection even in conversation.”

Damien resumed pouring, then corked the bottle, and brought the glasses toward me. He handed me one of the glasses and then sat beside me on the couch.

“I am proud of you,” he said. “You handled things masterfully at the last banquet. I worried when Councilman Stark set his eyes on you.”

“He is a handful,” I said in a joking way, hoping to make light of it. “I can only imagine what it must be like to work with him all the time.”

“It is a challenge,” Damien replied. “But the pack council is a necessary part of the pack. I’d be weaker if I surrounded myself with yes-men.” He shook his head lightly. “But tell me about the banquet.”

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I was happy to, and described some of the colors and decorations we had picked out. The food choices were being prepared for sampling tomorrow. I had tried to include options from both packs, but I had a feeling the pack wives who were helping me would only select options from Damien’s pack.

“Do you

think we will get many attendees from Jake’s pack?” I asked. They were all invited, as before, but since this banquet was deeper into Damien’s pack lands, I wasn’t as confident that many would attend.

“I’m honestly not sure. With the exception of the Alpha Galas, it is rare for events to include other packs,” Damien said.

My mind skipped. Alpha Galas? Why did that sound familiar?

Damien hurried forward, continuing to speak before I could remember anything.

“We can use this banquet as a test to see how strong the alliance is between Jake’s pack and my own. If his people to not feel comfortable in entering my pack lands, we will have our answer.”

“I’m sure people will come,” I replied. “The alliance will hold.”

I spoke with confidence but truly I didn’t know if I said those things because I believed them to be true or because I really, really wanted them to be.

The next morning, after Damien had left for the office, and the girls for school, I didn’t have much to do until the food tasting at lunchtime.

I’d given some thought about what to do, and decided that it was in the pack’s best interest for the Luna to be informed. As I had missed the past six years, I had a lot to catch up on, something I was eager to make up for

now.

Since I was a pack member in both Damien’s and Jake’s packs, as well as the Luna of Damien’s, it just made sense for me to have a base knowledge of all the going on’s in the kingdom.

For all of those reasons, after freshening up my coffee, I turned on the television and switched to the news.

Oddly, the first channel I tried was blocked with some kind of parental controls. I tried another channel, and it was blocked too. One after the next, it seemed as if every news channel on the entire lineup was blocked.

How… strange.

But surely there had to be a reason for Damien to have done this, and for him not to have told me about it. Maybe he caught the girls watching something too heavy for them. Maybe it just slipped his mind before he could tell me about it.

Damien wouldn’t block channels because of me. That was outrageous. He was my husband and our marriage was basically perfect. It had to be for the children’s sake.

I was sure, if I were to ask him about it later, that he would tell me the truth of it.

Yes. That was what I would do.

For now, I guessed, I would watch a movie instead.

Claire’s POV

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On the day of my first court appearance, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I was ready to face anything, and would do so with my head held high.

I was not a coward, and would never allow myself to be perceived that way. If nothing else, I would be remembered for being brave and strong-willed.

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