Chapter 58


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    Everything happened in a blur, A telling me she would have been. ready to take the next step.


    And how what I did had caused her toe back on that decision. How she didn’t wait for me to


    finish apologizing but how she had just mindlinked for her family toe back inside. I don’t think I


    will ever forget the look of disappointment. she had when I told her about my overprotectiveness.


    But then she showed herself to be the perfect Luna. David was a dam n fool for not seeing it. Now


    that the rage is gone, and I can see clearly once again I pity him. Of course, he wanted her back I


    heard how that Hannah girl, who could have been his chosen mate.was waiting in hopes that I


    would be single again soon. I hoped to the Moon


    Goddess that, that wouldn’t happen but if it did then I would still not choose her as my chosen mate.


    She would not make a good Luna, and everyone not blinded by rank and physical appearance


    knew that.


    However, the moment Alpha Cedric puts down the phone, smiling broadly at us, reassuring us that


    it is all settled. I forget everything, I jump up and lift A and spin them around. I love being able to


    pick. her up so easily. It is when I feel her b*dy stiffen I realize what has happened about an hour


    before. So I awkwardly put her down on the ground again. I have no idea what to do next. If I am


    still wee at her sister’s mating ceremony? Or if she even wants me to be here tonight.


    “I guess it is time for a BBQ now, I will help you get the groceries from the car,” A tells me her


    warm hand resting on my arm.


    Whatever she was going to tell me, whatever was going to happen after this. I had not lost her


    completely she told me she was not going to reject me. But somehow her touch, her kind smile was


    more reassuring


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    than her words. Or they were until we made our way to my car, the car doors were still open and I


    could only hope the meat had not gone bad from being out in the heat for so long. I will never know


    if the open car doors reminded her of what had just happened or if she had suggested helping me


    get the groceries out because she wanted to talk to me in private. Whatever the reason was, as


    soon as we reached my car she crossed her arms and red at me.


    “Grif, I want to be able to enjoy getting to know you, I may not have taken the final steps. But you


    see how serious I am about this are you not?” She asks me and I can hear the pain in her voice.


    “I know that Darling, I do and I am so happy with how things are going between us,” I tell her


    tugging a loose strand of hair behind her ear.


    All to touch her to be a little closer to her. She seems to lean into my touch, my hand before pulling


    away.


    “Are you Griffin? Because if you are, and


    work you’re going to start being honest wou still want to make this


    me. I was about ready to


    complete the mating process. Move into the castle. And you know why?” I want to answer her


    question but I have no idea how.


    I want to ask her if it is because she loves me. After all, she cares about me as much as I care


    about her. But I can’t handle her denying she loves me, or even telling me she did but I made her


    fall out of love. with me.


    “Because David made me realize that I had known him for most of my life. I had hoped he would be


    my fated mate for at least five years.” A continued when I didn’t answer


    I knew she was over him, I knew she chose me. I heard her tell David I would never be single again.


    I knew what she meant by it but hearing her tell me she wanted someone else to be her mate for so


    long still stung me. I know I had to respond this time though. I could not let her


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    pour her heart out as I was idly standing by.


    “I know Darling, I know how long you knew him, what your hopes were but I don’t see why that


    makes you love me?’ I honestly asked her.


    “Because, I did not know David, not the real David, because he was not honest with me. And I


    thought you were, to the point where we didn’t need to thank things slow because I knew more of


    the real you in these


    today st weeks than I knew of David in all those years. To find out


    today you are not honest with me” Her words as true as they were cut me deep.


    And all I could do was to promise her to be honest with her from here. on out. To tell her every little


    thing, to let her be able to worry about it.. Because if I was honest with her she would be able to be


    honest with me about her fears and her dreams.


    “I know you will, Grill, I like to think I still know you” A shot me at kind smile after reassuring me


    she believed me.


    Followed by a quick peck on the l*ps before she took some ags from my trunk. We silently walked to


    her grandparent’s home. And I thanked the Moon Goddess it was once again afortable silence.


    All the awkwardness of the fight put behind us, all in all, we were growing as a couple. There was


    nothing wrong with disagreeing every now and then as


    we did jus, as we were able to talk them through as a couple. Just like


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    now.


    Of course, what happened between David and me was part of the conversation during the BBQ. But


    it soon changed to happier topics, I got it now. Why A and her family loved to have these family


    BBQs. Mom, Dad, and I regrly ate together. meals we cooked ourselves but we didn’t have bbq’s


    together. Maybe I could introduce that tradition. into our family. It would also be a way to bring some


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    traditions to our pack. Even if the atmosphere between us now was still very fragile. Like we needed


    to recover from the cuts our fight left. I still envisioned a future with her, one where we would have


    pups running around. And I want nothing more than to give our pups traditions from both our


    families. Just not because I wanted them to feel a tie with both the families they came from. In


    getting to know the Hemmings I realized I liked them all.


    Her Cousin James, Alpha Cedric’s son was at the BBQ too. He was already mated and had a pup.


    The little fellow was just two years old. James got lucky he found his mate the moment she turned


    18 only. weeks after his 18th birthday. Alpha Cedric told them to focus on their family first, giving


    them the time to raise pups before James would eventually take over as Alpha. I knew A and I


    wouldn’t have that luxury but seeing her with her cousin’s pup I knew what an amazing mother she


    would be.


    She had set down in the damp grass reading stories to him. He was enthralled, soaking up every


    word she read to him. She smiled with pride. I felt this pull to join them. To sit in the grass with them,


    just to listen to A read us both stories from the silly little kid’s book. Now however since our fight,


    it felt awkward to do so. Mid-sentence A looked up and it was then that I heard someone running


    up to the Hemming’s home and we all instantly felt something bad was about to happen. A


    scrambled to get up, so she could carry Quinn Junior inside the house as the rest of us bare


    ourselves for what was toe.


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