And Then There Were Four novel Chapter 98

Chapter 98: Dinner Discussions

Ivy.

There was nothing like spending the day with my mates and the rest of the pack. After the warm invitation I had had from a few of the female wolves of the pack to join their play group, I was more than thrilled to entertain the idea.

Kate and my mother had suggested familiarizing myself with other women of the pack would help me be a better Luna.

I was so nervous about the idea of them accepting me. Differing from them, I had spent months watching them gaze at me with wary eyes.

I had thought they perceived me as a monster, but in the end, I was wrong.

There would always be women in the pack who didn’t like me. I expected that. It was the same in the real world. Not everyone is going to like you, but I was pleased these women could accept me as I was.

I wanted to be a Luna they respected and wanted around.

After a fun, eventful day, I made my way with James, Hale, Talon, and my mother back up to the house to prepare for dinner. The smiles and conversations still on our faces from the fun we all had.

It would have been complete if only Damian had graced us with his presence.

“I cannot believe that you spun that little boy around like that, Hale.” We made our way through the front door and I laughed. “I thought he was going to puke.”

“Hell no, he was having the time of his life. Plus, his mother didn’t seem to care, so why ruin mine and the boys’ fun?”

He did have a point, but as I looked at him with a small smirk on my lips, I couldn’t help but picture him with our children.

“Perhaps that’s true, but he was still so tiny, and I cannot believe that he didn’t cry. He just laughed and laughed and kept wanting you to do it again.”

Thad never really seen Hale in his kind of way, but seeing him like this made me excited for the future. He was going to be a good father. I had no doubt about that.

Even James and Talon were more than pleased with being able to spend time with the kids that were there. With things being quiet lately around the borders, the guys had a little more free time, and I was grateful for it.

Passing Damian’s office, I watched Kate and Damien come out with expressions of concern across their laces. Something was wrong, and that was obvious.

“Is everything okay with you two?” I asked as I tried not to show I knew something was wrong. Kate’s eyes quickly met mine as she forced her frown away.

“Oh yeah, don’t be silly. Everything’s fine. Just talking about pack stuff back home is. all.” Kate lying wasn’t something she did, and because it wasn’t, she was horrible at it.

Lhen.

However, I let it slide. If she wanted to tell me, she would.

Letting my eyes slid from Kate to Damian, I raised a brow staring at him. His dark chocolate eyes gazing at me with a ferocity I had grown accustomed to seeing.

Our conversation hadn’t gone the way he had planned previously, and I felt guilty for making it seem like I didn’t care about him because I did. I just honestly didn’t know what to do.

This was something far beyond me, and with my inexperience, I wasn’t sure how to handle it. The only reason I knew how to help James was because of the mate bond healing him. It was clear the bond was hurting Damian instead,

“Everything good?” I asked him as Kate stepped around me, making her way down the hallway towards the kitchen.

“Yes. Why wouldn’t it be?” he replied without hesitation.

Shrugging my shoulders, I smiled at him. “Fair enough. I’ll go help with dinner then.”

There was no point in pressuring him for information he would not give me. Doing that would be pointless, and I wasn’t about to make pointless conversations cause arguments. At least not right now.

In the end, we would all need to be honest with each other. We promised no secrets, and yet we all seemed to keep them.

As the night carried on, we all sat down and enjoyed dinner together with light laughter and conversations about what was to come for the rest of the week.

Not to mention baby names. That was a subject I didn’t even want to speak with the guys about.

Through all of it, though, Damian sat quietly watching. He was a mysterious man at times, and even though I loved him dearly, I couldn’t help but feel I was missing something extremely important.

There was something I just wasn’t getting. “So, Damian, what are your plans for the rest of the week?”

My calm response seemed to catch his attention, and as he looked up and met my gaze once more, he shrugged his shoulders. “I have some business to attend, but as soon as that meeting’s over, I will be back and more freely able to take part with things around here.”

“You mean you’re actually going to take a vacation?” James scoffed as laughter quickly flowed from the brothers.

“I suppose if that’s what you want to call it, then yes. Ivy is due to have the baby soon, and I want to be here to participate.”

A smile grew wider on my face when I heard him. My eyes stared at him in disbelief. Little by little, every day, Damian changed into somebody I could barely recognize.

At times he was cold and distant, but even those days were far and few between. Instead, he was warming up to the idea of our happy family being able to be whole and live , in harmony.

As everyone stood from the table, my mother remained back with me. A smile on her face as she stretched her hand across the space between us, placing it upon mine.

Until he gestured for me to follow him. I wasn’t sure what he was going to say, but I was intrigued. “Are you okay?” I said, as he pulled me into the living room. “Yeah, everything’s fine. I just wanted to apologize for the conversation that we had

before. You were right. If I honestly think that something is wrong like this, I need to speak to someone who would know how to handle this. I shouldn’t expect you to handle everything just because of who you are.”