Page 108 of Losing My Siren Luna
“Not easily, no,” he grins.
“And you call me stubborn.” He chuckles at my comment, his whole face lighting up, making me swoon from how handsome he is. “Fine,” I sighed, shifting uncomfortably in my chair. “I’ll tell you.”
How do I tell him about my uncle sending men to check on me without making him angry or him thinking I’m crazy? I can’t tell him this is my second life.
“Why not?”Val asked. “He knows you are a siren and accepts it.”
“Yes, but if I tell him about my first life I will have to tell him how I died, and that would not be good for the alliance treaty. The pack will need that treaty to remain in place soon.”
“Yeah,”Val sighs, “You’re right. Just tell him you have a suspicion for now. The same as you told the big boob lady at the brothel. That’s all you can do.”
Chapter 35
Lachlan POV
I love flustered Lira. She turns a beautiful shade of pink and can't sit still when I tease her. My little pregnancy comment and the way her whole body, from her chest all the way to her hairline blushed had me wanting to push her a little on the topic, but I know better. She’s still not ready. She’s barely an adult and I still don’t know what she went through in her uncle’s pack.
I want her. Lord knows I want her. I am going to wait until she is ready, though, and if she never is, I will be okay with that. Anything as long as we are together.
I still like watching her get flustered over me, though.
The fluster she is in now is different from the embarrassed kind of flustered like earlier. She’s anxious about telling me why she went to the brothel today.
I still want to know. I feel like I need to know.
“I didn’t want to mention anything to you because of, um, your distrust in my uncle. I didn’t want to needlessly worry you,” she says in a small hesitant voice, looking up at me through her lashes.
“Well, now we are going to worry no matter what,”Killian growls.
“Tell me,” I urged her, reaching out and grabbing her hand in mine. She gripped my hand in both of hers, drawing on my comfort in the bond I’m sure. I can’t wait until I can feel it too.
“I think my uncle may be sending someone to come check on me soon,” she whispered.
“What? Why?” I furrowed my brows in confusion. Did he send word to her without me knowing? Does he not trust me to take care of….
Wait.
This sounds familiar to me now. He used to send people to check on her in our first life. I tried to avoid being a part of it, but I heard mentions of someone from her uncle’s pack coming to visit her to check on her well-being and to see if she was pregnant every few months. It has been some time since our wedding. More than enough time to truly be pregnant and be aware of the condition.
I didn’t want to involve myself with Alpha Wayne more than I had to in our first life, and I thought Lira was a trap sent by him. I wish I had paid better attention to what was going on around her back then. She is worried enough about this to bring it to the brothel madam’s attention and there has to be a reason why. I fear the reason is an unpleasant one.
“This alliance was meant to bridge our packs through a child,” Lira murmured. “My uncle is going to send someone to check my condition and to see if I am adhering to my duties.” When she says the word ‘check’, Killian doesn’t miss the shiver that runs up her body, like she fears all that word entails.
“How will they check if you are pregnant and performing your, uh, duties?” I have to ask, needing to know. I fear I already know, but I want to hear it from her. If my suspicions right now are correct, I don't know what I will do.
Lira shrugs her shoulders. “This will be their first time doing so. I’m not even completely sure he will send someone. I just wanted to warn Lady Vera so an incident like what happened to Yasmin won’t happen again.”
“It won’t happen again,” I muttered venomously, pulling her to my side and wrapping my arms around her. The thought of any man that could do that sort of damage to Yasmin being near my wife makes me and my beast murderous. I will destroy anyone who tries to upset my wife or disturb the peace in my pack. No one will becheckingLira in any way. “I will make sure no men from Alpha Wayne’s pack can cross our borders without an escort to guide them, and no one will be going near you without me by your side.”
I wish I could ban them from entering all together, but I’ll need the alliance in the near future. Demon and vampire clans from the north will try to cross over, picking our people off in the outskirts and small towns of the pack. If I didn’t have Alpha Wayne’s support, my people would suffer greatly. We don’t have the manpower to fight them off on our own.
I also want to know how this man plans on ‘checking’ my wife. Guilt makes my throat swell imagining the worst and knowing that, because of my neglect, Lira most likely had to suffer with the men her uncle sent on her own.
“Ask her about it,”Killian demands, wanting to know the truth. He's ready to kill.
“I can’t. It’s against the contract with her father to reveal we know this is a second life for her.”I want to ask her more than anything, but my throat burns just imagining the words that form the question in my head. I’ll never be able to ask. She will hopefully tell me one day when she fully trusts me.
“Thank you,” Lira whispered, melting into my touch. Her whole body relaxes into mine.
