I Am The Luna

Chapter 0003

ZAIA.

Once back home, everywhere I look I see him, see the life we built together here. Crippling pain consumes me at what I’m leaving behind, but I won’t allow him to

take more from me.

I won’t let him hurt the life growing inside me. These babies are as much mine as they are his and I will do my best for them.

I begin packing, taking only the bare essentials, and dumping them into a suitcase.

The quicker I am out of here, the better.

I write a quick note to Emma, thanking her for her services.

Picking up the divorce agreement, I sit down at the dining table. The silence in the

house is deafening.

Emma must have finished her work by now and left. With shaking hands, I sign the

papers and close the file and with it, the door to that chapter of my life.

Plucking up my phone, I stare at my mother’s number. I haven’t called her in a while. … Although she and my father are separated, she too had been against me marrying

Sebastian.

However, I know she’ll understand me better than anyone… After all, my father left.

her for none other than Annalise’s mother.

My parents were destined mates, but my father had an affair with another woman,

hence Annalise was born, mere days apart from me.

My stepmother didn’t only take away my Mom’s mate, she took my dad from me

too.

When I was little, we were close, but my stepmother didn’t like it and always instigated him against me and tried to cause a rift between us. In the end, she

succeeded.

Even though I was raised with luxuries and given the best education, our

relationship simply became a formality to him. A responsibility he no longer wanted.

As I grew up, my father kept in contact. Of course, he’d even drop by on my birthdays, but the moment I refused to give up Sebastian for Annalise, he had

disowned me too.

I will go to Mom’s home and ask if I can stay there for a few days. Just long enough for me to sort things out with myself.

Tears trek down my face as I slip my wedding band from my finger and place it on top of the divorce file. Grabbing the handle of my suitcase, I pull it along,telling

Ethan to bring the car.

With a last, lingering glance down the hall, I take my leave.

last night still echoes in my ears. The anger in his voice still haunts me. The memory of him and Annalise in the office still stings.

I was a fool to think so. I should have known he would never believe me over her, when once again he

I see the rain has stopped, a rainbow spreads across the sky, welcoming me with open arms, but I can’t appreciate its beauty,

my knees, my vision blurring. A soft whimper

sound of a car door banging shut makes

Bastien?

Are you

Ethan…

Please take me to my

of course, come

me into the car, placing my suitcase in the

gets in the

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on Oak Mill Drive.” I say weakly. I’m no longer able to hold back my

murmurs, his tone surprisingly. gentle. His eyes meet mine in the rear–view mirror, filled with a concern that is

foreign to me.

window as we drive

a blur.

peeling, and it looks more worn than I remember it, but it brings back a surge of nostalgia from my childhood.

was the last time I visited

been far

me, before he quickly goes to grab my

my suitcase down, I

this,

a token of my gratitude

“Luna…”

I say. He hesitates but nods

a few of the

an unfamiliar face shows up,

car which doesn’t fit here.

away before taking a deep breath and knock on the

beginning to doubt

check into a hotel. I shouldn’t have come

my suitcase and run, when the door is pulled open and I find myself staring into my Mom’s

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“Mom…”

replies, shocked. Her eyes fall on the suitcase before she looks searchingly

the street and beckons me inside, closing the door on the prying eyes that may be watching us and pulls me into a comforting hug, and

minutes later, I am sitting on the worn–out settee in the small living room. Blowing my

as she rubs my back, her

frowning deeply.

“No, there’s no point, Mom. He is completely smitten with Annalise now that she’s back. I don’t think I should use these babies

no part

and nods her

never the way to keep a man. He once dropped Annalise for you, even if he remains with you. temporarily because of the children. He will drop

now.” 1

he’d do this.” I

enough to keep a couple together. You knew this, but you had fallen in love with him

thinks that, after all, Sebastian had treated me well… up until now, anyway.

asks when

“Not yet, but

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