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Chapter 49
Cali
I would be lying if I said his words didn’t hurt. For weeks I had been coping, or at least I thought I had been. Maybe I really was screwing up and he was just too nice to say anything.
I thought back over the time I had been here, from that first day in the ballroom when he looked at me like I was an inconvenience when he realised how little I knew, to his exasperation when I didn’t have a dress. Through the weeks of being Luna and helping to run the pack, and all the times I had to check things with him, interrupting whatever he was doing at the time.
The moments when I had practically begged for his time, even though I knew he was exhausted. The fumbling in the bedroom and my embarrassment over just about anything sexual.
Getting abducted.
I really had caused the pack more problems than I had solved, but I steeled my spine, as much as it hurt, Tristan was hurting worse, I knew he woul
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TristanWell fuck! I mean I knew I had screwed up, but I had thought giving her time and space would help, never did I imagine that she was thinking the absolute worst through the week. I also found myself a little hurt that she even considered it a possibility that I would have her killed in order to get out of our bond, but I couldn’t exactly blame her.Not when I had been so consumed with everything going on outside of the pack house that I had barely given her any attention.I backed away from the bed and dropped into the visitor’s chair as I really thought about our relationship. For the first time I looked at it from a distance and ignored anything else in my life.Maybe she was right to be feeling the way she did and thinking the worst. I had barely made time for her at all in the months we had been together, I had expected, apparently wrongly so, that she would come to me if she needed anything, but I had ne
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CaliTristan kept his word and was back less than two hours later with bags of Chinese food that he spread out on the table in the living room and plates and cutlery that he set down beside it. His expression however was not a happy one and I twisted on the sofa, placing my book back on the end table.“What’s wrong?”“Huh, oh nothing. Nothing that can’t wait. Do you want to pick a movie while I go grab us some drinks?” He queried but still his expression betrayed his words and I stopped him with a hand on his arm.“Tristan?”“Honestly Cali, it’s nothing that can’t wait. Besides, right now you need to focus on you, the pack will look after itself, Roman and Damian can pick up some of the slack. More than anything right now I need to know that we are okay. I need us to be okay. Please. Pick a movie I’ll be right back.” He stated
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Cali“So, what’s the plan for today?” Amber asked from the other side of the table in the dinning room, her eyes flitting between Tristan, Roman and I.“I need to get Cali caught up on what’s been going on this morning. You mentioned that you had started looking at plans for Christmas?” He queried looking to me and I nodded with my mouth full of eggs.Food had never seemed to taste so good. The med the doc gave me for sickness were like a miracle cure, honestly within ten minutes of taking one the queasiness had vanished, and I felt ravenous.“It might be time we all start putting a little effort into it. It will be nice to plan something we can look forward to, besides we need to try and get a little normality back around here.” He continued before sipping from his coffee.It was nice eating breakfast together. Damian had apparently been up until the early
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