One Hundred-Forty-One

I pace a little, moving from the window to the desk and then back to the window. I then remember the conversation I had with Malik before I left... I turn around and face the 3 of them.

"Zaire, Malik admitted to me that he had hired, or at least his father had hired Valentino to kill my mate when I found her under the fear of me finding out the truth. Valentino grabbing her in the woods that first time was not a coincidence. He was there on orders to kill her but took her instead… Wanting to make sure she was, in fact, my mate. I think Henry turning up at Malik's was because Valentino now wants her for his own personal reasons, and once Henry saw that she is a white panther, Valentino very resourceful and it wouldn’t have taken him long to figure out who and what she is, and what having her in his possession would bring him."

Zaire looks at me, confused once more, as he asks,

"Who and what is our Luna?... What truth was he trying to keep from you?"

I lower my head and turn back to