Page 51 of The Broken Aztec Princesses

“Are you okay? I’ve been trying to talk to you for a few minutes now.” Cade looked genuinely concerned for me, so I forced myself to smile.

“Thinking. What can I do for you?”

“I thought we might meet up later to discuss the bills?”

“Sure. Tomorrow morning sound good?”

“Sounds perfect.”

He smiled down at me before turning around and heading to the kitchen. Every day for the past two weeks, he ate breakfast and lunch with Violet and Chris in my old luna office. I was happy Violet had some company other than Chris, but I was unreasonably jealous of the private time she got to spend with Cade.

Cade kept all conversations and interactions with me in public, or with his beta, now. He seemed completely unphased by that night, and it made me wonder if I was imagining this possible mate bond between us. I appeared the only one to be stuck on what we didn’t finish that night in his room.

“Are you ready to go, Adam?” I asked when my alarm rang, warning me it was time to head to daycare.

“Yep! Can we have a picnic with Violet?”

“Today?”

“Yeah!”

There was so much hope in his eyes that I had to let him try.

“We’ll ask, okay? But I told you, Violet doesn’t like going outside a lot, remember? So if she says no, don’t be disappointed and we’ll plan another movie day.”

Adam nodded with big hopeful eyes at me and I sighed, knowing he would be crushed. He didn’t understand why she was so against going to the park with him. I doubted he would understand that going outside included eating at the park with him when everyone else was going about their free time as well.

After we cleaned up our dishes, I took his little hand in mine and we headed to the luna office. The door was open, a new development of the last few days. While Cade and Chris were eating with her, Violet felt safe. Cory said it was an improvement, even if she still closed it when Cade left, and locked it whenever she sent Chris out to run his wolf.

“Hey, Adam! I haven’t seen you in two days. I thought you forgot about me!” Violet said, getting up and moving around Chris to meet Adam in a hug.

“Can we have a picnic for lunch?”

“Oh...” Violet looked up at me and all I could do was mouth sorry to her. “Umm...”

“Why don’t we all have an early lunch picnic in that little park next to the daycare? My wolves will be too busy in the fields to be around the place, and Chris and I’ll make sure no one comes near?” Cade suggested before Violet could answer Adam.

“Really?” Violet looked more excited than Adam did at the prospect. She looked at Chris, who nodded and then she looked at me. “Would that be alright? To pull him out early?”

“For you, I’d take him out the whole day, Vi,” I chuckled.

“Then it’s a date!” Violet kneeled down to Adam’s level and gave him another hug. “What’s your favorite foo— wait, no I know this one. Chocolate,” Violet giggled and Adam nodded his head fervently.

To my surprise, Adam ran and gave Cade a hug, before he turned and gave another to Chris, whispering something in the latter’s ear that made Chris blink a few times, before he nodded and grunted in response.

“What did you say to Chris?” I asked Adam as we walked to the daycare.

“Secret.”

“Well, alright then,” I chuckled.

I dropped my little guy off at daycare and was walking toward the fields when I got a mind-link from the guard at the gates.

‘Luna, there’s a man at the gates that said you’re expecting him.’

‘What’s his name?’I asked.

‘Elim,’the guard responded.

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