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

to think so. I should have known he would never believe me over

stopped, a rainbow spreads across the sky, welcoming me with open arms, but I can’t appreciate its beauty, not today. The weight on my shoulders is heavy, the pain already

to my knees, my vision blurring.

a car door banging shut makes

Bastien?

Are you alright?”

Ethan…

trying to remain strong. “Yes. Please take me to

course, come

the car, placing my suitcase in the

and gets in the driver’s

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

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

foreign to me.

my head on the window as we drive through town, the passing

a blur.

peeling, and it looks more worn than I remember it, but it brings back

was the last time I visited

been far

door for me, before he quickly goes to grab my suitcase

suitcase down,

this, Ma’am?”

my gratitude for

“Luna…”

He hesitates but nods

see the curtains twitch in a few of the

curious when an unfamiliar face shows up,

which doesn’t fit

him to drive away before taking a deep

nerves are playing up and I’m beginning to

into a hotel. I shouldn’t have come

is pulled open and

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“Mom…”

She replies, shocked. Her eyes fall on the suitcase before she looks searchingly into my eyes. “Is

eyes welling with tears. She picks up my glances around 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 I finally break down. Sobbing my heart out at my

am sitting on the worn–out settee in the small living room. Blowing my nose on a tissue as

you are pregnant?” Mom asks as she rubs my back, her lips

frowning deeply.

my head, “No, there’s no point, Mom. He is completely smitten with Annalise now that

no part in.”

and nods her

then we’ll keep it secret. Babies are never the way to keep a man. He once dropped Annalise for you, even if he remains

now.” 1

is. I did not think he’d do this.” I protest. It’s not like

do, but only relying on the mate bond is not enough to keep a couple together. You knew this, but

murmur, feeling saddened that she still thinks that, after all, Sebastian had treated me

rejected you yet?” Mom asks when I’m

but

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