I Am The Luna

Chapter 0003

ZAIA.

Once back home, everywhere I look I see him, see the life we built together here. Crippling pain consumes me at what I’m leaving behind, but I won’t allow him to

take more from me.

I won’t let him hurt the life growing inside me. These babies are as much mine as they are his and I will do my best for them.

I begin packing, taking only the bare essentials, and dumping them into a suitcase.

The quicker I am out of here, the better.

I write a quick note to Emma, thanking her for her services.

Picking up the divorce agreement, I sit down at the dining table. The silence in the

house is deafening.

Emma must have finished her work by now and left. With shaking hands, I sign the

papers and close the file and with it, the door to that chapter of my life.

Plucking up my phone, I stare at my mother’s number. I haven’t called her in a while. … Although she and my father are separated, she too had been against me marrying

Sebastian.

However, I know she’ll understand me better than anyone… After all, my father left.

her for none other than Annalise’s mother.

My parents were destined mates, but my father had an affair with another woman,

hence Annalise was born, mere days apart from me.

My stepmother didn’t only take away my Mom’s mate, she took my dad from me

too.

When I was little, we were close, but my stepmother didn’t like it and always instigated him against me and tried to cause a rift between us. In the end, she

succeeded.

Even though I was raised with luxuries and given the best education, our

relationship simply became a formality to him. A responsibility he no longer wanted.

As I grew up, my father kept in contact. Of course, he’d even drop by on my birthdays, but the moment I refused to give up Sebastian for Annalise, he had

disowned me too.

I will go to Mom’s home and ask if I can stay there for a few days. Just long enough for me to sort things out with myself.

Tears trek down my face as I slip my wedding band from my finger and place it on top of the divorce file. Grabbing the handle of my suitcase, I pull it along,telling

Ethan to bring the car.

With a last, lingering glance down the hall, I take my leave.

in his voice still haunts me. The memory of him and Annalise in

I was a fool to think so. I should have

outside, I see the rain has stopped, a rainbow spreads across the sky, welcoming me with open arms, but I can’t appreciate its beauty, not today. The weight on my

my vision blurring. A soft

sound of a car door banging shut makes me

Bastien?

you

Ethan…

trying to remain strong. “Yes. Please take me to my

of course, come

He assists me into the car, placing my suitcase in the

gets in the

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hold back my tears. as I stare at

tone surprisingly. gentle. His eyes meet mine in the

foreign to me.

as we drive through town, the

a blur.

out her pale green door. The paint is peeling, and it looks more worn than I remember it, but it brings back a surge of

the last time I visited her

been far

the door for me, before he quickly goes to grab my suitcase and carries

my suitcase down, I pass him

this, Ma’am?”

token of my gratitude for all you

“Luna…”

say. He hesitates but nods and takes his

in a few of the windows. In this small winding

curious when an unfamiliar

car which doesn’t

wait for him to drive away before taking a deep breath and

and I’m beginning

a hotel. I

the door is pulled

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“Mom…”

Her eyes fall on the suitcase before she

beckons me inside, closing the door on the prying eyes that may be watching us

I am sitting on the worn–out settee in the small living room. Blowing my nose on a tissue as

he know you are pregnant?” Mom asks as

frowning deeply.

completely smitten with Annalise now that she’s back. I

wants no part in.” a

sighs and nods

never the way to keep a man. He once dropped Annalise for you, even if he remains with you. temporarily because of the children. He will drop you one

now.” 1

we were destined mates. You know how important that is. I did not think he’d do this.” I

couple together. You knew this, but you had fallen

thinks that, after all, Sebastian

he rejected you yet?” Mom asks when I’m a

yet, but I’m sure

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