“Hunter, you don’t love me, you only feel grateful because I saved your life.” Lc even surprised when


    she heard what she said, but that was what she was thinking. Grateful. He was only being grateful


    toward her because of her, he was still alive right now.


    Sometime, gratefulness could be dangerous. It would shackle you and you didn’t know what to do


    aside from trying to repay your debt.


    Lc knew that feeling, because she used to feel grateful toward what luna Jasmine did to her and it


    was hard to stand up against her. She was a mother figure that she had never had.


    “Grateful?” Hunter’s eyes dimmed and this made Lc’s heart lurched. “You only deemed my feeling as


    a gratefulness?”


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    Lc felt her blood drained from her face when Hunter stared at her intensely. She lowered her head


    because she couldn’t hold his gaze. It was the first time she saw him very serious and to be honest, it


    scared her a little.


    For a moment, there was this deafening silent between them, until Hunter took a deep breath and


    touched her cheek. His voice softened this time, it seemed, he managed to ovee whatever turmoil


    he had.


    “I am not feeling grateful toward you, Lc. I am not a child, who is confused by their own feeling.”


    Hunter put his finger under her chin and persuaded her to look at him. “I want you. I always thought


    about you ever since the day I saw youst when we were little. I thought about you every now and


    then after that.


    But, I don’t have any idea how to find you, neither I knew where to start to look for you. Only if I knew


    one day I will meet you again, I would have never done something so stu pid as ying with other


    women.


    This might sound as an excuse, but the way lycan saw rtionship and how werewolf did, is


    completely different. I think, you already knew that too.”


    That was right, the lycan was always liberal with their feeling, they didn’t have a mate bond that was


    gifted to them, a blessing from the moon goddess, that was why the werewolf looked down on them


    and saw the way they didn’t save. themselves for their other half as barbaric.


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    But it was also true that they were the most loyal shifter once they decided to mark their other half. This


    fact didn’t mention so often like the other negative things


    about them.


    “I chose you not because I felt grateful, of course, I am grateful because I am alive, but I don’t need to


    repay something like that when you yourself didn’t even remember those events until I told you about


    it.”


    That was also right. If Hunter didn’t say anything, Lc wouldn’t have known there were such histories


    between them. He didn’t need to hang over something that happened years ago, something that only


    him, who knew about.


    “Lc…”


    Hunter called her name very gently, which made Lc wanted to tear up, because she longed for such


    tenderness and sincerity.


    “I know what you think.” Of course, Hunter could read what was in her mind now she had spoken it up.


    “I am not that bas ta rd Aiden. I am not him and I will never be him. I will not stoop so low to betray you.


    It has nothing to do with my gratefulness or the fact that you saved my life. I don’t need that feeling to


    be sure that I love you.”


    Lc bit her lips, she wanted to believe that so bad, but there was still this tiny doubt in her heart. Ah…


    she didn’t know how much Aiden had hurt her until now. What he had done left a deep scar in her,


    which made a single provocation ruined. everything that she believed.


    “What should I do to prove it to you that I am not a barbaric who would sleep with another woman aside


    from the one, who is bearing my mark?”


    Tear streamed down her face when she heard that. Lc felt bad because she didn’t believe him.


    Before this, she didn’t have this kind of doubt, but luna Jasmine instilled it in her mind and now she was


    having a hard time to trust him.


    In a way, luna Jasmine won. She managed to make Lc doubted herself and this rtionship.


    “I am sorry.” And now, Lc felt so bad to have this feeling, but even more when she couldn’t shake it


    offpletely. “I am so sorry…”


    Hunter hugged her this time and let her cried against his chest. He wanted so bad


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    to hide her from the world and let her knew what was in his mind.


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    “Let’s do the ceremony,” Hunter said. “I will


    ” Hunter said. “I will prepare the ceremony and you will be my luna officially. No one would be able to


    say otherwise.”


    Hunter would do anything to put Lc’s mind at ease and he wanted her to be safe with him. He knew it


    would take time to make Lc believed himpletely and after what that darn woman said to her, it


    would make thing rocky between them.


    Yet, Hunter was willing to put all of the effort to win her.


    Lc simply nodded. It lifted a little bit of her worry. “Hunter, if you chose not to choose me anymore, I


    don’t have anyone… I will be alone.”


    “I will always choose you, Lc. No matter what happened, I will always choose you, little one, even if


    the stake was myself.” Hunter hugged her. His woman was trembling in his arms and he felt how soft


    and small she was. She was very fragile at this moment and this ached his heart to think what she had


    to go through or what kind of negative thought that hunted her down.


    In the end, they stayed like that for over two hours, the silent between them was veryforting, it was


    not awkward at all, if anything they really needed this silent.


    Hunter leaned his back against the backrest of the sofa, staring at his mate, who he cradled in his


    arms, as she rested her body against his chest, while staring at the pine trees out there.


    “You said, there is something you wanted to tell me…” Lc finally broke the silent between them. She


    lifted her head and looked at Hunter. Her voice was a little bit rough and her eyes were slightly red, but


    she looked better after she voiced out her worriness.


    “Yes, there is something important I want you to know.” Hunter tucked strands of hair behind her ear,


    his gaze was doting, but filled withplicated feeling.


    “What is it?” Lc felt the rm went off in her head when she saw this look on


    him.


    “This is about your father.” Hunter wanted to postpone this conversation because of her breakdown


    carlier, but he didn’t think that was the right decision to make. “I know that you said you will ask me if


    you are ready to know about him, but… will