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?"

door, and she was inside, breastfeeding the baby. I don't think she'd

way she was clutching the baby was

the territory and went abroad when Adessa and I got married. Did she leave because she was pregnant? And

kept asking in my

she would throw it to my face and demand I take responsibility.

and visited the child except Desiree. The child and the woman, who was around fifty, were the only

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

money or introduced it to me the moment

it seemed she wanted to hide it from me

know what to feel looking at the pictures

from the Desiree I knew. Her hair was tied in a messy bun, and she was

of the apartment, she wore regular flip-flops as well as a

up, that even if we only needed to go to a nearby shop, she would slip on her high heels and

living a double

was obviously what she was doing-living under my roof when she

had so many questions in my head, and I knew I would never find an answer today. And as much as my curiosity was piqued by this, I had other things to

I come back. At least with me gone, she didn't need to pretend around me and could spend more

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

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 it was a girl or a boy. I wanted to see its face-a final confirmation that it wasn't

something I could disregard at the moment, Miranda

me that

territory and had not transferred any money somewhere else. I was informed she had been slowly withdrawing money until

the day I

and closed her