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.

the woman behind the counter. It took a while before

record it?"

"What do you mean?"

not going to replay it again for you on another day.

him in this

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 anything

more of her. But I could see why Dexter said he expected her to take that ring. She was probably with me because of my money. She didn't even wait for a day to sell or pawn

stealing from me

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

to Dexter and just told him to

was the longest three hours of my life.

had no idea why

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 eyes fell on the trash bin. It

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

wrote the signature and

the benefit of the doubt, but they seemed right about

already past

She was probably sleeping somewhere, pissed off at me. But

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

to charge my new phone when I suddenly had the curiosity to watch the video

could be. I opened the

phone and

was me and Adessa. She was smiling, and I was smiling too.

could

I only had a few, but all of them were of

the videos

birthday to

sweet and angelic. She approached me, holding a cake with a candle in just her nightwear, But she had her golden

singing.

watched her sit in the space next to me. I wasn't even capturing the cake at the angle of the video. It

wish and blow the candle, which I

cake in the bathroom?" I asked in

I'm a witch. I can hide things and

know," I said, and she giggled