All Chapters of Too Curvy To Be Luna, Too Strong To Break : Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

ARIA I bit the inside of my cheek to stop myself from laughing. Isolde turned her attention back to Xavier, and I thought she would leave the subject alone, but apparently she wasn't finished proving her point. “You still take your tea without sugar, don't you?” she asked Xavier with a knowing smile. I paused. There it was again, another little piece of information from the Xavier she had known before me. I didn't even realize I had started staring at him until Maya spoke. “Careful, Lady Isolde,” she said lightly. “At this rate, Lady Aria might start thinking you have a whole book about the Alpha tucked under your pillow.” I almost laughed as Xavier glanced at Maya, then at me. His eyes moved briefly toward the sugar bowl. For a second, he looked like someone deciding whether his next move would save his breakfast or destroy it completely. Then he reached for the sugar bowl. He slowly added one spoonful to his tea. I blinked and Maya's lips twitched. It didn't end there

ARIA The warriors had clearly finished a difficult training session, and several of them had removed their shirts because of the heat. Their bodies were covered in sweat, and the afternoon sun made the whole scene look far more distracting than I would have liked to admit. Vin cut into my thoughts. "You were staring too. Your eyes were on the same warrior." I quickly looked away. " I was not. I was looking at the training ground." Vin smirked." His chest was not the training ground." I almost choked and immediately shut this big mouth out. I hated when Vin was right. Maya suddenly leaned closer to me and whispered, “Mi Lady, I think Blackwood has been hiding some of its best resources from us.” I covered my mouth, trying not to laugh. “You are terrible.” “I am appreciating the dedication of the warriors.” “You have been appreciating on

ARIAThere was something familiar about him, but I couldn't immediately place the handsome face standing in front of me. I stared harder, trying to connect the face with the memories buried somewhere in the back of my mind, until everything finally clicked and my eyes widened.“Lucian?”His grin widened immediately. “I was beginning to think you had forgotten me.”I couldn't help myself as I smiled. “Lucian Blackwood?”“Finally,” he said, opening his arms dramatically. “I was starting to take it personally.”He walked toward me with open arms, and before I could decide whether I should remain proper as Luna, he pulled me into a quick hug. I laughed as I stepped back, still staring at him in disbelief because I honestly hadn't expected to see the same mischievous boy from my high-school days standing in front of me as a grown man.“I can't believe you're here.”“I could say the same thing about you,” he replied, looking me over with amusement. “The last time I saw you, you were threate

XAVIERI should have known Lucian was going to be a problem the moment I saw the way Aria's face changed when she recognized him. She had been laughing with Maya only minutes earlier, but there was something different about the smile she gave my cousin, something so effortless and warm that I found myself staring at her instead of listening to the warrior reporting the training results beside me.I told myself it was because I needed to make sure Aria was comfortable around everyone in Blackwood. That was a perfectly reasonable explanation for an Alpha. A responsible Alpha should know who was approaching his Luna, especially when that person happened to be a man who apparently knew her from years before she ever stepped foot inside my territory.Unfortunately, my wolf did not seem interested in accepting that explanation.Sky growled." You are jealous."I frowned internally. " I am not jealous.""You are staring at him like you are considering throwing him over the training wall."I g

ISOLDEI left the training ground without looking back, although the sound of Lucian's laughter followed me across the courtyard and seemed to grow louder with every step I took. I could still hear Maya's voice among the warriors, the amusement that had spread through the training ground after Xavier's embarrassing slip, and Aria's laughter sitting above all of it as though she had forgotten, even for a moment, that she was surrounded by people who had once made her feel unwelcome.I should have been relieved to see her settling into pack. That was what I kept telling myself as I walked. Those were sensible thoughts but I hated it, especially when I kept remembering the way Xavier had looked at her.I tightened my fingers around the pendant hidden inside my palm and tried to push the image away, but it returned almost immediately. Xavier had barely noticed anyone else around him. Even when I had spoken to him, he had answered without truly looking at me before turning his attention b