Oh, Moon Goddess, he agreed! I feel like jumping around the room right now, but I have to control myself a bit. I’m still blushing, though. Where do I want to go? I have no idea; I’ve never been on a date!
“I... I don’t know.”
“You want us to celebrate your birthday together? I can take a day off. What do you usually do then?”
For my birthday? Nothing. Back at the Jade Moon Clan, nobody would have bothered to celebrate or even remember which day it was. I would do my chores, like always, and the 3rd of December would pass like any other day. It was a bit different when I was young, though. My parents celebrated my birthday with a cake and a nice dinner. But I can’t just ask for a cake from Damian... Can I?
“Nora, tell me.”
“An Opera Cake.”
“What?”
“I... I want to eat an Opera Cake...” I confess, blushing.
I hear him chuckling at the end of the line. It’s embarrassing enough!
“Okay, my Love, an Opera Cake. What else?”
Oh, my Goddess, what did he just call me? Can I get any redder than I am now? So embarrassing! I’m blushing so much my cheeks are on fire. What was that? And Tonia andBobo are both watching, I must be looking crazy right now! I need to answer, Damian is waiting at the other end of the line.
“I... I don’t know. Anything’s fine...” I mumble.
“Okay. Let me know if you think of anything else. I need to hang up, I have a meeting.”
“I’m sorry, are you going to be late?”
“Neal’s glaring at me, and about twenty executives are staring, too, so I suppose I already am.”
Oh, Moon Goddess... I stutter a “bye” and hang up as quickly as I can. This is so embarrassing, I could die... His staff heard me requesting a date! And this stupid Opera Cake, too! How could I be so shameless! I’m never, never, never asking for anything over the phone again, this is way too dangerous! I turn around and see Tonia laughing.
“This is not funny!” I protest.
“Oh, hell yeah, it is. Moon Goddess, you are so cute, Nora!”
“I’m not cute, I’m embarrassed to death!”
“It’s okay, Nora. You got yourself a date for tomorrow, girl! And for the whole day, too!”
“So you did hear everything!”
“Of course, I did. Now we need to decide on what you’re going to wear tomorrow, so let’s go shopping!”
What shopping? The wardrobes are already full! I argue with Tonia for a long time before she finally gives up. Instead, she insists on helping me choose my outfit for tomorrow. But the thing is, I have no idea what we are going to do...
I finally find a minute where Tonia is too focused on the wardrobe to watch me and step out of my bedroom, Bobo behind me. I go to the main room to lie on the sofa, and he comes to sit next to me.
I’m happy about going on a date for my birthday, but I can’t stop thinking about Alec. Did Nathaniel take him to the hospital, as he said? I hope he didn’t lie about that... Thinking about Nathaniel makes me remember something. I was about to get up, but Tonia enters the room carrying three different pairs of earrings in her hands.
“Which one do you like most?”
“I don’t know, the white one? Anyway, Tonia, I have a question for you. Who is Nathaniel’s Beta?”
“Nathaniel’s... It’s Isaac Graves. He was their father’s Beta’s son. Why do you ask?”
I thought the creamy white wolf might have been his Beta, but it seems like I’m wrong.
“I was just curious... You remember when you guys came to get me at the Jade Moon Clan?”
