Alpha Draco And His Omega Luna

o

r had opinion

ecise moment a fire needed another log, the particular character flaws that could be identified from a per

days after I'd shown her to her room and wa

e said, without look

rning to

her cup down, " it's not possessive. I want you to know that,

is it

important questions. "Careful," she said finally. "Like Mila

ked a

poke t

" She picked her cup back up. "Told me everything about

t like people," I said. "

g." My grandmother smiled

d stood in the library doorway looking tired in a way that had nothing to do w

e to marry

. He to

t her. "He

ut this. "He said he intended to ask you, and that he wanted

ou? Have o

ession she reserved for questions she considered to ha

ques

d been through." A pause. "Wheth

nd

nd he had no intention of stopping." She set her c

rounds, and somewhere out there I could hear the distant sound of the training yard t

him," I said. "As a maid.

other mad

ha

d, in the voice th

ndmo

"that offering to be his maid was pe

now what el

red nothing. You don

ht them here. He gave me.." I

for the people they.." she paused, and chose her word with the precision

ther piece o

the maid thi

e told me

ld you

," she said. "While you were dec

at her. "

and answered my questions." She was unbearably serene

tea with my grandmother and answering her questions while I was tw

you tell m

looked at me levelly. "And because I knew you would.

in the tra

arently had other ideas, and before I'd made a conscious decision I was standing at the edge of the yard watching Draco spar with a man

tly here than he

visible. The way he read his opponent two moves ahead. The economy of his motion. The fact that e

othing performative about it. He wasn't showing off. He was

but gave no indication o

peared at

since six," he sai

s ni

es

im. "Does he

d." He paused. "He's had somethin

d not

subtle," Xavier

otic

y. A real one not the declaration thing, which.." he made a face that eloquently expressed his feeling

"Did he tell you

sion was completely unrepentant. "But you deserve to know it's comi

econd, and the quality of his attention had shifted slightly, still controlled, still precise,

ect that means much, given that you've known him ten days. But I'

erent

l," Xav

word

k immediately creating space, defaulting to restraint even in the middle of a fight, and I thought about a man who had spent two years loo

aid to Xavier. "

l him I wa

won

missed the rest of the yard and walked toward me, and I stood my ground, and when he stopped a few feet away he was

ou been standing

g en

dded

e going to make me an

his expression. "

be different fro

me steadily. "Do you want

I have time to build up

ised him, I saw it, brief

don't. Not because you have no other options, you do, and I'll make sure of that regardless

d his

re time waiting to know you. Because you are the only person in recent memory who has looked directly at me without

g yard was

hrough the gre

say no?"

friends, with every protection I can offer, and I'll ask you again in a m

like a very

," he said. "

at him. "

rtal.

his. "I didn

things about me y

e wh

oment. "Say yes and I'l

artled by it, so genuinely caught off guard by the simple fact o

w negotiations

best off

y overhead, the mansion in the distance with my grandmother s

onditions

t very

es. "I am your Luna, not your decoration. I have a real role in this pack, a real voice, and you don't m

said withou

in," I said. "All of it. Whatever you are,

t me for a

gnificant as

kno

it isn'

w that

moment. The

odd

carefully. "I

ked a

I said. "Wit

ething that looked, briefly and almost painfully, like the expression of a person who had been h

ditions,"

t pus

this time just barely,

and Lilly

ically not a word but communicated everything. Then she composed herself, cleared her throat, and sa

I've known since the library. The way you talked about

king about

e me th

y talking ab

lined I k

so hard she h

bout everything that had led here, the auction, the fire, the car, the mansion, the dungeon, the library, the training yard, and t

s on in his

d it for

t spend the last minutes before sleep running through exits and co