I Am The Luna

Chapter 73

A Memory

NEW YEARS DAY OVER FOUR YEARS AGO

VALERIE. “It’s so late.” I massage the back of my neck as I step into my apartment. We had left the Whispering Mountain Pack after midnight and the journey wasn’t too short.

I yawn, pausing as I stretch when I hear the faint creak of a floorboard, making me freeze. It’s not a violent stormy night that the wind would cause the apartment to creak.

I tilt my head, but there’s nothing more and I almost smile. Why am I being so paranoid? I walk to the fridge, grabbing myself a bottle of water; gulp it down and look through some papers. I have work in the morning.

I sit down at the counter, skimming through one of the reports of a big operation we have tomorrow when I think I hear something again.

Tilting my head, I pause, I really am imagining things. I shake my head. Well, I should shower and get to bed. I need to get out of this dress too.

I get up and walk to the bedroom. Sighing, I mull over everything with Zaia. I hate how life has done her dirty. I wish there was more I could do for her.

I’ll keep sending her the antidote, and I’ll keep checking her bloods but it’s just not enough. Fucking stupid alpha!

That stupid bitch Annalise!

Karma. Karma will bite their ass.

I walk to my bedroom, pausing when I see it standing ajar. Strange, I’m sure I shut the door when I left. I specifically remember trapping my dress in it and then opening it, pulling out the dress and then closing it…

switch. Darkness. I groan in annoyance. “Do I even have a spare bulb?” Tonight

sharply, my heart dropping when I see the tall, masked man who stands in the corner behind the door. He’s in baggy clothing

and I instantly grab the small vanity table that stands beside the door, lifting it up and swinging it at him with all my might. He ducks, and the table goes flying against

I’m no match for him! I need to alert

my dress, yanking me back into the room and kicking the door shut.

I hit the floor. Fuck, he’s strong! I’m about to shout for help, but his

A what?

off, scrambling away. “I don’t know what that is! You got the wrong person!” I say as he grabs me by the arm and violently throws me onto the bed and climbs on

let me see if there’s a mark or not. You might just live,” he snarls.

I’m not who you’ ‘re looking for, will you let me go?” I ask, my heart thundering, feeling his strong thighs

hand wraps around my

car ten minutes ago. “If you really aren’t, then, of course,’ he says, caressing my cheek. “But one

is real. My blood runs cold, even though he’s speaking extremely low, it’s him. It’s Sebastian. But if I tell him I know… he might just kill me… even if he’s wearing that black mask. I remain frozen

break out in a cold sweat, sensing his anger rising as he yanks and pulls my

“Ah… there it is…” he yanks my hair as his attention falls to

it, and I manage to throw him back. My eyes blaze and suddenly everything

be

ground. I grab the bed sheets trying to pull myself up but it’s futile and I only manage to drag the bedding right off. I hit him in

pain ricochets through my head. I let out a choked gasp and

keeps striking my head, bludgeoning it with the hammer.

dragging me into the darkness and

I

hurts, my head is being split open and the pain- it’s…

most

(PRESENT)

gasp as I look around the car, my heart hammering. I’m safe. I’m

can feel the ghostly pain in my head

fine,” I reply quietly. “And no one would have thought much of the symbol at the hospital,”

stitches and damage her head had, there’s a possibility it was just hidden and once her hair began growing, we wouldn’t have noticed it,” Jai says, frowning

to them in French, but it was too much, and I am left shaken. Zaia wraps her arms around me. “It’s ok, no one will hurt you,” she whispers

when we knocked?” Jai asks, looking at Sebastian. They were the ones who apparently found me… but at the same time, it’s obvious they

Sebastian! “What did you see when you came?” I ask, wondering what they’ll say. “Someone peeped through the eyehole, but no one

and found you in your bedroom, I think we might have come just in time,” Sebastian says. Zion’s watching us curiously. For a three-year-old, my gorgeous

I say quietly. “It wasn’t Seb, Val, trust me.” Jai’s eyes are soft and full of concern as he watches me. “He told me to

“I initially thought he had jumped but he had locked himself in your bathroom, I chased him from there, but

Alpha,” Zaia says, frowning. Does she trust Sebastian? I look at her, but I don’t know… I

I say quietly. “You aren’t the first to say that,” Sebastian says

guards. I managed to get his visor up and although I said to the police, I didn’t see him… his eyes

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