Dead Luna – Chapter 46
Jackson’s POV
I could tell Amy wasn’t happy. Ever since Leo left, she was just going thru the motions. She pulled herself together after crying into my shoulder for a solid 10 minutes, and then carried on like a soldier going off to war.
I watched her closely as she met with the unmated wolves of our pack. She was smiling and being just as helpful as the prior day, but the smile never seemed to reach her eyes except briefly when someone named Rachel Hollingsworth came for her appointment.
hat, Amy asking Rachel how she’s been, and complaining
be joining them in the ranks of the happily mated soon.”
”
n people would talk to her, but for the most part her mind seemed to be elsewhere, and she ate very little.
er friends have come to see her, I tell him. Maybe try something different, like watching a movie?
cross purposes.
robably good for both of them, as Derrick tended to be too serious at times.
ld end only in disaster. Then I recalled a relatively simple card game called 6 card that we could try, which entertained us for a little while. Then we tried a dice game called 10,000 which was mostly based on chance. I was debating between Jenga or scrabble next, when Derrick mentioned it was time to head to dinner, thank goddess.
s over the mind link.
m, I reply.
ust in case, to find a beautiful flower arrangement in a cut glass vase. A note inside simply states “Thank you”.
h, these are nice!” Ju
It doesn’t say,” Amy re
they must be from Derrick!” Julie surmises. “He gave you that little bouquet yesterday, maybe he wanted to do a grand gesture today and surprise you with your favorite star gazer lilies?”
went to turn on her favorite evening time television programs to watch before bed. But Amy continues to stare at the beautiful flower arrang
No.
ing the nice evening out on the porch if she needs her.
ng how sad Amy looks as she settles in to watch her game shows.
ning is still quite warm, a soft breeze helping to keep things comfortable. I put a companionable arm around Amelia, and she leans against me.
e so hard!”
o what makes you think I’m qualified to answer?”
that.
ant by that?”
anything that can be done to ease his suffering, and if there is anyone out there who fits his criteria for a Luna. She’s been uncharacteristically silent on the matter.”
Leo isn’t the only one on the planet to ever to have relationship issues, and most manage to get over it in time. He wouldn’t even be in this mess at all if he had trusted in the Moon Goddess from the start, and claimed you as he should have. Instead, he was a selfish prick.”
tuff, because he had something neither Derrick, Rick or I could ever have.”
nk he was just being young and immature at the time.” I finish. “But the stupid prick
ew who was going to be better in bed. That kind of information would help me choose, but it’s sort of against the rules.”
er been with Leo, then?” I ask.
time. I guess I had given her plenty of things to consider, regarding Leo. Eventually she stands u
nstead of Leo. I certainly wouldn’t have mucked everything up like he did.
tever I can.