I Am The Luna

Chapter 0348

VALERIE.

My heart thunders as I look around the apartment. Did the generator’s fuse blow?

I have half an urge to open the door and to look down below to see if someone’s going to do something about it, but not after what just happened with Zade.

I look around. Flashes of the night when I was attacked in my apartment years ago return to me again, playing like a movie at the forefront of my mind.

It’s a trauma I never got over, something that cost me years of my life. I could have died… I still have the scars on my scalp where I had been bludgeoned.

I may be a doctor. I’ve seen things at hospitals that make my stomach churn, things I will not forget, but being in that situation is different…

Zade’s face comes into my mind, and oddly, I’m pulled from my train of thought. I inhale and exhale slowly, running my hand through my hair shakily.

past is in the past…

lock the door and walk to the bathroom to rinse the coffee off

‘Don’t test me…”

my mind,

that

at the thought of how he was holding me… the way he was so close…

as I slowly sit on the

Focus…

dark room, which is almost pitch black, as the window in here is

and having no electricity doesn’t matter when I can see in

off, trying to calm the emotions in my chest.

news, and maybe he was staying

stay here. Maybe I should look for another place. There must be something in the

heavily, feeling a dark cloud settling

+15 BONUS

I can get my deposit back and I frown, my thoughts come to an abrupt stop.

that I’m so desperately trying to run away

same time, why is the thought of leaving making me

environment in this area. Even now, as they try to get the power back up, I can hear people talking, making sure the elder man on the bottom floor is alright and a Ms Simmon, who lives alone.

if I’m alone in my apartment… I’m

I tense, my head snapping to the open door behind me. I swear