Page 27 of Lavender Moon
“Will James really be okay with this?”
He smiles. “James is not who he appears to be,” he says. Well, that’s not fucking cryptic or anything.
I look down and sigh. He tips my chin with his thumb as we stare at each other.
“What is it?”
“Is this just sexual for you?” I ask in a small voice, and he laughs. I can feel my cheeks heat and tears well in my eyes. I felt like a powerful Omega, but now I feel stupid.
“Fuck.” He cups my face in his large hands. “No, Luna, this is far from just sexual. I’ve wanted this for a while, but I’ve been too worried about the repercussions. I’m sorry, and I will do better. I didn’t mean to upset you. You mean so much to me. This isn’t just sexual, this is everything.”
I sniffle. “But you’re always such a dick to me.” He sighs and strokes my hair.
“I need to get better at showing affection. Plus, for a while there, it was to keep myself away from you, but these past couple months, I’ve been trying to figure out how to make it work.”
“You’ve been planning this for how long?”
“Too long. Finding out you worked here kinda wrecked my timeline.”
“Your timeline,” I repeat.
“You just turned twenty-one, Luna. You’re my fucking stepsister. This isn’t going to be easy. If you don’t want this complication, I would understand.”
“How do you just no longer care about what people think?” I ask, furrowing my brow.
“You’re worth it,” he says firmly. “I’m going to get your clothes from your locker, and we’re going home.”
“What about our parents?”
“You don’t need to worry about that,” he says as he retrieves my clothes and leaves me in the office to change.
This night certainly took a turn.
Chapter 10
Luna
IthinkIwastoo high off of Ian touching me and someone going down on me for the first time that it hits me when we’re in the car.
“Ian, what are we doing?” I ask, clutching against my seatbelt that I don’t even remember putting on and glancing over at him.
“I’m taking you home,” he says matter-of-factly.
“You mean your home.”
“Our home,” he says.
While this is always what I’ve wanted, I start to panic. My breathing is irregular, and I tug the seatbelt away from my chest as I try and calm down.
“Fucking shit,” Ian says as he swerves the car and parks at the closest gas station.
He grabs the sides of my face and stares at me. “Baby, hey. Luna, little moon. Look at me, baby.”
My eyes flick to his, and I just stare at the deep pools of brown in front of me.
“That’s it, good girl. Breathe in and out.”
I wrap my hands around his wrists, and I try to breathe in and out. My heart rate calms down as I continue staring at him.
