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

to bring

glance down the hall, I take

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

pregnancy might save our bond, but I was a fool to think so. I should have known he would

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

sharp pang in my chest almost brings me to my knees, my vision blurring. A soft whimper escapes my lips before I can

of a car door banging shut makes me look up.

Bastien?

Are you

Ethan…

“Yes. Please

course,

assists me into the car, placing my

in the

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Mill Drive.” I say weakly. I’m no longer able to hold back my tears. as I stare

gentle. His eyes meet mine in

foreign to me.

the window as we drive through

a blur.

peeling, and it looks more worn than I remember it, but it brings back a surge

the last time I visited her

far too

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

the front door for me. When he places my suitcase down, I pass him

is this,

my gratitude for all you have done.”

“Luna…”

but

see the curtains twitch in a few of

always curious when an unfamiliar face shows up, especially when it’s

a luxury car which

taking a deep breath and knock on the door.

beginning to doubt my decision. Maybe

hotel. I shouldn’t have

the door is pulled open and I find

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“Mom…”

fall on the suitcase before she looks searchingly into my eyes.

eyes welling with tears. She picks up my glances around 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 I finally break down. Sobbing my heart out at my broken marriage

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

Mom asks as she rubs my back, her lips

frowning deeply.

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

no part in.” a

nods her

dropped Annalise for you, even if he remains

now.” 1

he’d do this.” I protest. It’s

enough to keep a couple together. You knew this, but you had fallen in love with him and chose to ignore that. But he clearly didn’t care

still thinks that, after