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.

spoke to the woman behind the counter. It took a while before she finally took the ring from her pocket. My hands coiled onto my tight fist as

you want to record it?" The man

"What do you mean?"

not going to replay it again for you on another day. You know, after this, I might lose

should feel guilty for putting him in this

video again. It took a

I expected 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

had been stealing from me

car. He informed me that, according to their

and just told him to

hours of my life. I was drowning in

had no idea why I

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

paper and brought it to my table. The folders were still stacked

clearly wrote the

kept giving her the benefit of the doubt, but they

already past

she was not inside. She was probably sleeping somewhere, pissed off at me. But if she expected

console or pamper someone. I just wanted

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

phone to the TV and checked where the remote control could be. I opened the drawers until I finally found it, and

took the phone

me and Adessa. She was smiling, and I was smiling too. We looked happy, and it left a pang of pain

could

went to was the photo section. I only had a few, but all of them were of me and her or

went to the videos and played the first

to

me, holding a cake with a candle in just her nightwear, But she had her golden robe on her. The recording started midway. Thad probably grabbed the phone to record her when she

singing.

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

me make a wish and blow the

did you even hide that cake in the bathroom?" I

a witch. I can hide things and make them appear out of nowhere..." She winked at

know," I said, and