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

last, lingering glance down the

ears. The anger in his voice still haunts me. The memory

our bond, but I was a fool to think so. I should have known he would never believe me over her,

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 to claw at my

vision blurring. A soft whimper escapes my lips before I can contain

sound of a car door banging shut makes me look up.

Bastien?

you

Ethan…

trying to remain strong. “Yes. Please take me

of course,

He assists me into the car, placing my suitcase in

gets in the

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able to hold back my tears. as I stare at

murmurs, his tone surprisingly. gentle. His eyes meet mine in the rear–view mirror, filled with a concern that

foreign to me.

head on the window as we

a blur.

good twenty–minute drive and I point out her pale green door. The paint is peeling,

time I visited

been far too long.

the door for me, before he quickly goes to grab

door for me. When he places my suitcase down,

this,

gratitude for all you have done.”

“Luna…”

but nods and

see the curtains twitch in a few of the windows. In this small winding

always curious when an unfamiliar face shows

which doesn’t fit

for him to drive away before taking a deep breath and knock on

nerves are playing up and I’m beginning to

I shouldn’t

when the door is pulled open and

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“Mom…”

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

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

sitting on the worn–out settee in the small living room. Blowing

Mom asks as she rubs my

frowning deeply.

now that she’s back. I

wants no part

sighs and nods

you don’t want him to know, then we’ll keep it secret. Babies are never the way to keep a man. He once dropped Annalise for you, even if he

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we were destined mates. You know how important that is. I did not think he’d do this.” I protest. It’s not like I stole anything that

“Yes dear, I do, but only relying 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

feeling saddened that she still thinks that, after all, Sebastian had treated