MALIA’S POV
I thought it might at least take a while for him to start getting me involved in his affairs again. I mean give me time to get used to him being around here and stuff but that very night he came, he sent a servant to inform me about a dinner in his place.
I frankly do not want to deal with that woman again. Now that she was beginning to make assumptions, I wondered what would unfold if she saw us having dinner together. I made up my mind to just come clean and tell him the truth, we should just keep our relationship casual.
Fortunately today, he didn’t have a dress brought for me to wear. I got ready in my usual loose-fitting clothes which I wore to bed at most times and went straight to his room,
I knocked multiple times and waited until I was instructed to enter before going in. I expected to see the food lined out and waiting for me to savor, but on the contrary, I met an empty dining table. Although I didn’t want to have dinner with him, deep down, I was eager to eat the delicious meals he was always served.
“Come closer and take a seat” He pointed at the chair opposite of him.
Despite having so many questions to ask, I did heed his words and moved closer, letting myself down on an entirely different chair from the one he pointed.
“You used to be a Luna right?” He asked.
Once again, his question was out of the ordinary something I wasn’t expecting him to ask on a dinner date where the dinner wasn’t present.
“Yes,” I answered despite the fact that I had a different thought going on inside my head.
He nodded firmly like that was supposed to be a form of explanation for everything going on in his head. After that, we were engulfed in silence, with me confused as heck.
“Why am I here?” I wanted to ask, it was on the tip of my tongue but I didn’t and thankfully he began to speak again right after that.
“Do you know why I postponed the Luna ceremony?” He asked.
“How was I supposed to know?” Again I wanted to ask but bite my tongue just in time.
“No” instead, I opted to say that.
“Because I do not want her as my Luna, she doesn’t deserve to be in that position. She isn’t the kind of figure I want to lead beside me”
His sudden confession caught me off guard and I just stared at him wide-eyed, shock taking over every part of me.
“Why will he do that? How will she react? And most importantly why was he telling me this?” These were the questions that kept roaming in my head as I tried to figure out who the heck this man sitting a few feet away from me was.
“How…. why don’t you want her to be Luna? I thought you two were in love?” I questioned, getting the annoying hair away from my face.
I don’t know what was funny about my statement but he did chuckle deeply before finally taking it upon himself to reply.
“Love?” He scoffed like that was the dumbest shit he have ever heard. “I thought those don’t exist anymore” He shrugged. “Anyways if they do, that is certainly not it between me and Lila. She just happened to be the only female who matched my energy in many aspects and the only one who stayed after being with me, which was why I decided to just let the post out to her because the park needed a Luna” He remarked.
“But as I sat and thought through it, I realized that for me to appoint the wrong Luna, I had rather waste as much time as it will take searching for the right one”
“This is certainly too much information to consume. Have you told her?” I asked even though I knew he hadn’t. But what other question can I ask?
“Not I haven’t yet”
“She is going to be furious when you tell her” I mumbled.
“Furiouness is putting it mildly, she is going to be destructive. Very much so” He nodded.
“How then are you going to tame her, I don’t want to be a part of this, I hope you are not calling me here so I could explain to her. If you are, change your plan cause she won’t even look at me twice. She hates my gut”
“No, I am doing that myself. You are far too precious to be allowed that errand”
I refused to acknowledge his reply, I refused to think deeper into it.
“You are going to hurt her let me not sugarcoat a thing. She has all her mind focused on this, you can’t just toast her aside just like that. At least give her some other post so she can cope with the heartache” I suggested because truly she will be mad.
“I might put that into consideration” He nodded. “But I do not want her anywhere close to me again”
“That is not something I can advise you on. You are going to have to deal with that alone” I responded.
After that stillness invaded the room which allowed me to ask. “Are we not supposed to be having dinner? Wasn’t that why I am here?”
“Not necessarily, but if you desire a meal, I can have it served to you” He stated.
“I do, I desire a meal” I replied with no reluctance.
With a single finger snap, a guard walked into the room. He gave the instruction and the guard left. I have no idea how he managed to get the guard’s attention with just a single snap but whatever, my food is my priority.
I was served barely five minutes later and I spent the rest of my time in his room, eating away the delicious meal.