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.

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

to think so. I should have known he would never believe me over her, when

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

me to my knees, my vision blurring. A

car door banging shut makes me look

Bastien?

Are you alright?”

Ethan…

to remain strong. “Yes. Please take me to my Mother’s

of course,

me into the car, placing my

in

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able to hold back my tears. as I stare at my home that now disappears from

He murmurs, his tone surprisingly. gentle. His eyes meet mine in the

foreign to me.

the window as we

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

time I visited

far too long.

me, before he quickly goes

me. When he places my suitcase down,

this,

token of my gratitude

“Luna…”

but nods and takes his leave.

few of the

unfamiliar face shows

car which doesn’t

him to drive away before taking

are playing up and I’m beginning

check into a hotel. I shouldn’t have

door is pulled open and I find

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“Mom…”

before she looks searchingly into my eyes. “Is everything

me inside, closing the door on the prying eyes that may be watching us and pulls me into a comforting hug, and I finally break down.

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

asks as

frowning deeply.

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

clearly wants no

nods her head.

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

now.” 1

did not think he’d do this.”

a couple together. You

I murmur, feeling saddened that she still thinks that, after all, Sebastian had treated me well… up until now,

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

“Not yet, but I’m sure

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