I Am The Luna

Chapter 0238

ZAIA.

Please say this is a lie…

His words through the phone echo in my mind, making everything else fade away.

“Zaia!” Annette’s distant shout echoes in my mind as I fall to my knees, broken.

Sebastian left me.

Tears stream down my cheeks as I clutch my chest. The pain I feel is far worse than

anything I have felt in my life. Far more excruciating than when he rejected me

years ago.

It hurts so much… my heartbeat is ringing in my ear, along with the shrill whistling.

sound that makes my head want to explode.

I cannot breathe.

Sebastian…

“Why!” I scream as I stare ahead, unseeing.

Flashes of our moments together flood my mind but all I can focus on is him.

The signs were there, the way he was behaving… how long had he been planning to

do this?

I thought we were a team. I told him I needed him. Why?

Will I never just be enough to keep him happy?

Sobs wrack my body and I feel like I’ve lost everything. The threads of my life had. begun to come undone, yet I still held on… still hoped for something more.

Mom… Dad… Sebastian…

In the end, I failed. Just the way I am failing Sia and my people…

Why is the goddess doing this to us?

I scream. “If you really cared…

this?” My voice breaks as I

alone… I am alone…

for this. I’ve tried… tried to do

enough…

for one another if your only aim was to rip

my strength?

gave me the strength to continue. Why did

Why did I unwrap my damaged heart

my strength… he was the one who I had learned to forgive and not

fell for him all

don’t want to feel this

clamp my hands over my mouth, rocking myself as I try to pull myself together,

I can’t.

trust I had

aching heart, hurting

arms wrap around me, pulling me against a firm chest.

I whisper, a fresh wave of

I’m tired, I’m so tired…”

going to be ok. We’re going to

How?

many times I felt like he was

saying

gone

Dad…

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grip my head as it squeezes in pain. My claws are out and my eyes

emotions.

Zaia, look at

I think it’s Atticus, but it’s becoming dark.

needs to know that

through my

didn’t give Mom

hear me, please…

nothing but a wall and I cry

vision

becomes blissfully dark….

and I’m sitting on my bed, exhausted yet unable to

feel it. Betrayed, yet