Chapter 53 Moment of truth

• A few hours had passed into the nighttime, the rain had stopped and the moon had come out now. The cabin bedroom being dimly illuminated from the moonlight as the two lovers lay in the arms of each other, the both of them wide awake, but not a sound was heard except the one from their breaths, it was a peaceful moment, a moment Lucas wanted to savor.
• Ava’s eyes wandered in his direction of her lover in whose arms she laid in, kissing him in between intervals. At the next moment, her eyes caught something behind him on the beside table near the lamp. It was night and one could hardly see anything in the room, but this was not a problem for a wolf as they were known to have good night vision. She focused her gaze and got a clearer view of the picture behind him. It was the picture of a young black-haired woman, probably in her early twenties, and a young boy who had a striking resemblance to Lucas. She’d seen this picture that first morning she escaped from here but hadn’t paid much attention to it. She just assumed that it was a picture of young Lucas and his mother but now she was certain that it was the picture of Amelia and Bambi, as she saw the small scribblings of their names at the edge of the frame. It was the last memory he kept of her.
• Lucas saw the direction his mate was looking; he knew what she was looking at but didn’t move or say anything to stop her, just let her see what she wanted to see, it’s all right as long as the frame was behind him where he couldn’t see. She looked up at him and saw the sadness in his eyes. It hurt to see him like that, she knows it must be very painful, how it feels like to lose your family, she lost hers too but it could never compare to what Lucas had to go through. After a moment, she decides to break the silence.