The Forgotten Luna by Cassandra M

Chapter 44

KAEL.

I looked at the photos in my hands, and I still couldn't believe everything that was revealed to me. The man who gave me this information had been gone for some time, and yet the conversation between us kept playing in my head.

"I have the information about your girlfriend, Alpha Kael." He said after I acknowledged his greetings.

"Ex-girlfriend." I corrected him before I pointed to the chair in front of my desk, motioning for him to sit down. "Let's get to the point, as I don't have the luxury of time today."

He nodded his head, then placed a brown envelope on the table and pushed it toward me before taking his seat. "That's what I collected in the forty-eight hours that I followed her. She didn't go anywhere besides that apartment. They went out three times to a drive- through and bought groceries.

My forehead creased. "They?"

"You will understand more once you see the photos inside."

Without saying anything more, I grabbed my letter opener and proceeded to open the envelope. I ignored the written documents and went for the photos, and my heart began pounding loudly at the first one that I saw.

"How old is the baby?" I had no idea how I was able to manage the words out of my mouth because my mind went haywire in an instant.

A part of me didn't want to accept that it was mine. But what if it was?

"They just moved there a month ago, so I was unable to confirm the age with anyone. They seldom communicate with their neighbor next door. However, based on the baby's physical features, it appears to be around four or five months old. ""Is there a man with her?" I asked.

"No. But there is a woman who I assume takes care of the baby when she's not there."

"How sure are you that the baby is hers?"

will find one where the other lady opened the car door, and she was inside, breastfeeding the baby. I don't think she'd

the way she

and went abroad when Adessa and I got married. Did she

it mine? I kept

demand I take responsibility. So there

came and visited the child except Desiree. The child and the woman, who was around fifty, were the only ones residing there. The neighbors also said

she went whenever she left the territory-not to meet another man-during the two weeks where I observed her routine.

would have demanded money or introduced it to me the moment Adessa left.

wanted to hide it from me

to feel looking at the

from the Desiree I knew. Her hair was tied in a messy bun, and she was going around without makeup. She also looked tired, and her posture was too different from her usual

the apartment, she wore regular flip-flops as well as a loose shirt-something I had never seen in the years that she was

always dolled up, that even if we only needed to go to a nearby shop,

living

kind of mother would leave her child to someone else so she could hook up or pursue another man? Because that was obviously what she was doing-living under my roof when she had a child that was not even a year old and needed her. And if this child was hers, why didn't she leave it with her parents if she couldn't attend to

so many questions in my head, and I knew I would never find an answer today. And as much as my curiosity

when I come back. At least with me gone, she

sent the investigator to follow her again and find out the hospital where she would take her child for checkups or the like so he could extract more information-who the father was and

also wanted a closer photo if he could, because on the ones he gave me, I could barely see the face. Desiree was holding it protectively, so I had no idea if

could disregard at the moment,

told me that

accounts in the banks inside the territory and had not transferred any money somewhere else. I was informed she had been slowly withdrawing

day

closed