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 counter. She spoke to the woman behind the counter. It took a

want to record it?" The man

"What do you mean?"

again for you on another day. You know, after

should feel guilty for putting him in this position, but I didn't. I was

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 while watching

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

if she had been stealing from me while we

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

and

of my life. I was drowning in silence. I felt

no idea why I was

we arrived home. 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

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

clearly wrote the

her the benefit of the doubt, but

already past

was probably sleeping somewhere, pissed off at me. But if she expected me to come

console or pamper someone.

I showered, I closed the curtains and was about to charge my new phone when I suddenly had the curiosity to watch the video

remote control could be. I opened the drawers until I finally found it, and beside

phone

She was smiling, and I was smiling too. We looked happy, and it left a

I could find answers

section. I only had a few, but all of them were of me and

to the videos and played

birthday to you.

dear Alpha. She sang, and it was so sweet and angelic. She approached me, holding a cake with a candle in just her nightwear, But

singing.

the space next to me. I wasn't even capturing the cake at the angle of the video. It was all on her

let me make a wish and blow the

hide that cake in the bathroom?"

I can hide things and make

know," I said, and