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

have known he would

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 shoulders is heavy, the pain already beginning

pang in my chest almost brings me to my knees, my vision blurring. A soft whimper escapes

of a car door banging shut

Bastien?

Are you

Ethan…

remain strong. “Yes. Please take me

of course,

car, placing my suitcase in

and gets in the driver’s

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I’m no longer able to hold back my tears. as I stare at my

His eyes meet mine in the rear–view mirror, filled with a concern that is

foreign to me.

rest my head on the window as we drive through

a blur.

reach my Mother’s street after a good twenty–minute drive and I point out her pale green door. The paint is peeling, and it looks more worn than I remember it, but it

last time

been far

quickly

When he places my suitcase down, I pass him an envelope. He looks at me, surprised.

this,

my gratitude

“Luna…”

He hesitates but nods

in a few of the windows.

always curious when an unfamiliar face

car which doesn’t

for him to drive away before taking a deep breath and

I’m beginning to doubt my

into a hotel. I shouldn’t

is pulled open and I find myself staring into my Mom’s grey

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“Mom…”

the suitcase before she looks searchingly into

the street and beckons me inside, closing the door on the prying eyes that may be watching us and pulls me into a comforting hug, and

the worn–out settee in the small living room. Blowing my nose on a

Mom asks as she rubs my back,

frowning deeply.

Mom. He is completely smitten with Annalise now that she’s back. I don’t think I should use these babies to trap him in a

wants no part in.” a

and nods her

dropped Annalise for you, even if he remains with you. temporarily because of the children. He will drop you one day, just as he

now.” 1

think he’d do this.” I protest. It’s not like I stole anything that did not belong to

on the mate bond is not enough to keep a couple together. You knew this, but you had fallen in love with him and chose to ignore that.

saddened that she still thinks that, after all, Sebastian had treated me well… up until now, anyway.

yet?” Mom asks when I’m a

my head. “Not yet, but I’m sure he will soon.”

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