The Forgotten Luna by Cassandra M

Chapter 13

KAEL.

"If you press a fucking alarm, you will surely not like what I'm going to do with you."

"This is harassment, sir."

"No. This is frustration, sir! I want my ring back. My wife is missing. She has that ring, and I want to know who sold it here!" I snapped at him.

He swallowed.

"Do you have a wife?" I asked him.

He nodded.

"Do you love her?"

He nodded again.

"I have a wife, too. I want her back, but I don't know where to start." I put my hand in my back pocket and pulled out my wallet.

I opened it and took out stacks of bills, placing them on the counter in front of him. "Now, I just want to see the CCTV of the person who left this ring. And who bought it. Also the buyer's information on when he will come to pick it up. I meant no harm. I want to know so I can buy it from him." I was talking calmly this time.

He didn't talk, but his eyes were on the cash in front of him.

"You can buy many things with that money. Buy something for your wife or kids if you have any. I'm not even going to take the tape or the recording. I just want to see it."

"After this, you will leave?" He asked in a low voice.

"Once I see the video and after you give me the information about the buyer." I made it clear.

He grabbed the cash on the counter, inserted it into his pocket, and walked to the back of the shop. He then led me to a door that had a narrow hallway before it came to another door.

The security room. I didn't say anything and watched as he operated it, rewinding the recordings for the day, and my heart dropped because I was sure I saw Adessa.

"That one..." I didn't know where I found the voice to speak.

He stopped and rewinded a bit more before playing it all.

behind the counter. It took a while before

to record it?"

"What do you mean?"

it from your phone. I'm not going to replay it again for

for putting him in this position, but I

the phone that Dexter had bought for me earlier and asked him to start the video again. It took a lot of effort on my part to refrain from punching

her to take that ring. She was probably with me because of my money. She didn't even wait for a day to sell

had been stealing from

inside my car. He informed me that, according to their records, the individual who had reserved the ring would pick it up next Friday

didn't say anything to Dexter and just

life. I was drowning in silence.

no idea why I

Desiree met me by the entrance and began chattering about how inconsiderate of me to leave the territory without letting her know. I didn't say anything. I didn't try to explain. I just walked away and locked myself inside my office. My

of paper and brought it to my table. The folders were still stacked up, and I opened

clearly wrote the signature and her

kept giving her the benefit of the doubt, but

was already past

she was not inside. She was

in the mood to console or pamper someone. I just wanted time

and was about to charge my new phone when I suddenly had

instead, I connected the phone to the TV and checked where the remote control could be. I opened the

took the phone and turned it

and I was smiling too. We looked happy, and

I could find

a few, but all of them were of me and her or just her alone. I took too many photos

videos and played

birthday to you.

me, holding a cake with a candle in just her nightwear,

singing.

sit in the space next to me. I wasn't even capturing the cake at the angle

me make a wish and blow the candle, which

that cake in the bathroom?" I asked

I can hide things and

I said, and