The Alpha and His Contract Luna novel Chapter 15

Mayra.

I wake up with a start and immediately survey the room. I breathe a sigh of relief when I realize that I was in my room.

'It must have been a terrible nightmare'. I think to myself as the memories of what happened earlier flood in.

“Mayra?” His voice makes me snap my head in his direction so fast it causes me to be dizzy.

Looking at him. Still dressed in a suit brings about dread in me. The fact that he is here means that everything that happened did happen. That none of it was just a bad dream.

I begin shaking. My heart beating wildly. I wanted to escape. I wanted to leave. To be far away from this place and from the woman and girl who were probably downstairs.

“Calm down, love, you’re safe…everything is going to be okay” Darren’s voice sounds soothing but it does nothing to calm the storm that was raging inside me.

He stands up and comes to me. Then he hugs me close. I take in his scent. It calms me but not that much.

“Come…they’re waiting for us downstairs” he lets go of me and gives me his hand but I refuse to take it.

I shake my head. I didn’t want to go downstairs. Didn’t want to see the little girl. It might sound heartless but I just couldn’t face her. Because she represented something I’d rather forget.

“Grace, the woman you met said she won’t leave until she speaks to you” he informs me softly.

“I don’t want to talk to her. I can’t talk to her”

“You’ll have to honey,”

Hooking his hands under my arms, he lifts me off the bed and places me on my feet.

Cupping my cheeks, he kisses me before letting me go. “I’ll be with you, you don’t have to be afraid of anything”

For the first time since our relationship started, his kiss doesn’t take my breath away. Mainly because I was panicking and breaking on the inside.

After nodding my head, he takes my hand firmly in his and leads me out of the door and down the stairs.

The moment we get to the living room and I see them, I begin trembling. My heart begins racing again and the need to turn around and flee consumes me.

Darren must have sensed this because his hold tightens, thus preventing me from making my escape.

He leads me to the seat opposite Grace and the girl. Ren and Bash are present but Micah is nowhere to be seen.

I sit down and immediately my foot starts tapping the floor. Darren places his hand on my knee and the anxious behavior stops.

I face them. Grace is smiling at me kindly but I have no energy or will to return her smile. The girl on the other hand has a cookie in her hand, probably given to her by Ren. She’s staring at the floor. I can’t tell whether it’s because she’s shy or like me, she’s scared.

“Hi Mayra, it’s good to officially meet you” Grace says, making me pull my eyes from the girl.

I don’t reply. What’s there to say anyway? From where I’m standing, I’m not pleased to meet her. She seems like a sweet lady but I hate what her being here represents.

“Now that Mayra is here, could you please tell us why you’re here?” Darren asks, his deep and strong voice cutting through the tense atmosphere.

Grace smiles. “Definitely. I didn’t want to speak without her here because this is a sensitive topic. I work with the government and I’m the social worker in charge of Iris’ case”