The Wolf King's Luna novel Chapter 17

CATHERINE.

I walk back into the mansion, legs aching and my entire body exhausted from my supposed stroll.

Someone needs to explain the word stroll to Faye, she clearly doesn't understand.

"Eeeh."

The squeal gives me a second to look around before I am attacked into a bear hug.

What?

"I can't believe you are Damon's mate. How cool is that?" Melissa exclaims as she releases me.

'Oh, hi."

"Hi? Hi? We are family now. No need to be shy," she says as she links her arm with mine and begins propelling me forward. "You have no idea how big this is. Damon has been searching and pining for his mate for years, only for me to dump her in his lap. It is great ammunition."

"Ammunition?" I ask

"Hmm. You do not have siblings, right?"

"No. I do not."

"Don't worry, you have me now. Oh, we are going to have so much fun," she exclaims again as we enter the kitchen. "See who I found," she announces.

"We know," Damon retorts. He is busy setting the table while Fiana stirs something in the pot."We heard you screeching like a banshee from the front door. And don't listen to her Catherine, I wasn't pining."

"You weren't?" Diana asks with a raised eyebrow.

"No. I wasn't. I was… hoping for my mate. In a dignified manner."

Diana just snorts in response.

"Right," Melissa drawls out as she pushes me into a chair at the table and takes the other one beside me.

"That is my seat," Damin says.

"Since when?" she retorts.

"Since Catherine arrived. My seat is next to wherever she is seated."

Oh.

"Ugh. What a sap," Melissa intones with her tongue sticking out at him.

Damon feigns throwing a plate at her and she retailers with picking a fork.

"Children, children. Behave yourselves, especially in front of Cat. She would think I didn't raise you with any manners," Diana says as he brings the ceramic ware to the table.

Tomato soup. With lots and lots of meat.

My stomach grumbles at the sight. It is still strange having enough to eat.

"And yet you plan on running away," my wolf snaps.

"Oh, I could never think that you are a very dignified lady," I tell Diana, ignoring my wolf.

"Oh, you are sweet," she responds as she turns back for two large baskets of breadsticks. "Let's dig in."

The conversation around the table is light and fun. 

And it hurts.

It hurts knowing that I will soon be leaving them. But it is for the best.

"For who? Not us?"

"I know you want to stay but we can't."

"Why not?"

"because it is not safe and…and I do not trust them. Not completely."

"he is our mate," she whines. "You can trust him."

"Vance was our mate too and he rejected us without so much as blinking. I can't risk getting hurt like that. And it will happen, once they find out I am from the Skylight pack."

"But-"

"No buts. Both packs are enemies, remember. Blood enemies."