The Lunas Second Chance Mate – Chapter 117
Alyson
I eat breakfast alone, Ryan already training the warriors on the new plan. We have to find the rogues that are sick and expect to find symptoms in the weaker pack wolves so they can seek healers immediately. He wanted to do this alone, knowing he will be going out with them this afternoon to try to make things right.
To ease my mind, I sit alone in the busy cafeteria, a few nightshift warriors roaming in for coffee and breakfast before heading to bed. I sit at the table in the furthest corner, a little dark from the lack of light in this direction and slightly cold. In a weird way, I feel like it’s punishment for being so wrong for so long.
hat I feel like the world is crashing down around me. It’s my fault, anyways.
“Mind if I sit here?
don’t get to speak a word, though, seeing Olivera hesitate behind me, hands stuffed into his front pockets.
nod, wordlessly, in utter surp
moment in the co
d taking a sip. I don’t mention it, just waving it back towards him when he shoves it at me. I haven’t hardly had a sip of it. I prefer tea but I didn’t want
are you
m more than I pity myself.
ct him to yell, to fight me on
sweetheart.”
te you calling me that.”
two prefer witless mutt of a Lun
ly s
im say my name makes his apology sound almost believable.
“Thanks,” I murmur. “I forgave you instantly. I shouldn’t have told you what Fritz h
ad, fighting a war in his head, one I have fought before. He lost his m
ssing, though, and that was Ryan. Olivera doesn’t get the same opportunity. He has t
my question,” he says, grabbing my plate of cold eggs along with the coffee he already stole from me
rmed.”
at’s not fun.”
en’t fun times, Olivera. You know th
reflex, and he ignores the motion, thankfully. He takes my arm in his hands and pulls me to follow him as we make our way outside to the front of the palace and then down the cobble roads of the village in our pack lands.
long.
tee-shirt combination with simple shoes that weren’t made to be worn for an extensive hike.
eful features, turning to flas
this, Olivera. It could get us in trouble with my mate.”
t’s just a hike. We need to clear our minds and get some sunshine. It’s a good distraction, too, waiting for him to come back. By the time we are done and get to the palace, it will be time for him to come home and everything will be fine.”
is right, I need this break to relax and clear my thoughts.
n the sounds of the wind, the colors of the birds in the trees, and the dirt path where we weave in and out of the meadow that leads to the waterfall.
the water running gently over a smooth rock that leads to the edge of a cliff where the water pours over in the ga
lmost slipping as I threaten to fall over, but Olivera k
ack.
hell are you doing? Let me go.”
ur shades. “Don’t deny me.”
weightless in my fall.