Abandoned Luna Now Untouchable (Cecilia) novel Chapter 73

Xavier

My chest tightened painfully as I watched Cecilia’s face. My wolf, Kael, whined pitifully inside me, sensing our mate slipping away forever.

“I won’t marry again, Tsaid, the words scraping out of my throat like broken glass.

“I won’t be with anyone else..”

Cecilia didn’t even blink. She cut in smoothly, her voice calm and steady-way too steady, considering everything we’d been through.

“Whether you decide to stay single forever, Xavier, that’s not my business anymore.

You’re free now. And so am I. I honestly hope we both find peace.”

“Peace?” I repeated, the word catching like a splinter in my chest. It tasted off-dry and bitter.

“With who, Cecilia? Who’s supposed to give you that peace?” And then, Like some cruel reflex, his face came to mind-Alpha Sebastian Black.

The Alpha of Silver Peak Pack.

Always around her. Always watching.

Cecilia exhaled softly. Not annoyed. Not angry. Just… tired.

And somehow, that one quiet sound broke something in me more than if she’d screamed.

“Can’t I just be happy on my own?” she said, her voice gentle but firm.

“Do I really need a man to prove I matter?”

I looked at her, completely silent.

Because deep down, I already knew-She didn’t need anyone.

And whatever happiness she found next, it wouldn’t have anything to do with me.

The painful tension in my heart eased slightly at her words. Though she wasn’t bound to me by the mate bond we never completed, the idea of her with another wolf-especially Alpha Sebastian-made my blood boil.

“Really?” I searched her face desperately. “You plan to be alone? Not to find another mate?”

I stared at her, hope flooding my eyes, silently begging for confirmation that she wouldn’t form a bond with another Alpha.

Instead, she smiled gently-that smile that had first captured my heart eight years ago-and said with surprising calm, “I should go. Goodbye, Alpha Xavier.” She turned away, her movements graceful and decisive.

I instinctively stepped forward to follow, then froze in place.

I watched her retreating figure until she got into her car and drove away. I knew she wouldn’t look back, yet I foolishly hoped she might turn her head just once, showing some small sign that a fragment of her heart still belonged to me. But until her car disappeared in the distance, she never once glanced back.

My chest felt hollowed out.

I tore the divorce certificate into pieces and threw them into a nearby trash can, a symbolic end to what once had been the center of my existence.

[She’s gone,] Kael mourned, his grief intertwining with mine. [Our Luna…].

[She was never truly our Luna,] I reminded him bitterly. [We never completed the mate bond. Blood Moon Pack never fully accepted her.]

[Because you didn’t fight for her,] Kael accused. [Because you strayed.]

1 had no answer for that truth.

Cecilia

I drove home with strange lightness in my chest, as if I’d shed a weight I’d been carrying for years.

My feelings were a complicated tangle-like finishing a long journey, slightly disoriented and melancholic.

My heart ached a little, with an undercurrent of tears threatening to surface, but mostly I felt… relieved.

Finally… it was over.

As a human in a wolf’s world, I’d always been an outsider in the Blood Moon Pack.

No matter how hard I worked, how much I contributed, I was never truly seen as Xavier’s equal-never fully his Luna in their eyes because we never completed the bonding ritual.

Not that it mattered anymore.

In the afterneon, I received news from the police department.

They informed me that Cici had suddenly fallen ill-allegedly suffering an epileptic seizure

-and her lawyers had filed for medical release.

I spent the entire afternoon stewing over the possibility that Cici might escape justice yet again.

It was particularly infuriating to learn that the man in black was insisting he had acted alone. Police investigation confirmed he was indeed friends with Cici, possibly harboring romantic feelings for her.

Their chat records showed no direct instigation from her, no money transfers-just Cici complaining to him and dropping subtle hints.

Even though I knew with absolute certainty that Cici was the mastermind, it had been just the two of us in that bathroom. Without a recording, there was no proof.

I skipped dinner that evening, having no appetite.

Thinking of Sebastian, who had likely been discharged from the hospital, I decided | should visit him. I picked up my phone to call him, but hesitated and called Liam instead.

Liam confirmed that Alpha Sebastian had been discharged that afternoon and was now at his penthouse apartment.

“‘ll come up then,” I said, feeting a flutter of happiness, then noticed it was almost seven o’clock. “If that’s convenient?”

“Perfectly convenient,” Liam assured me. “Come right up.”

He gave me permanent access to the penthouse floor-a detail I noted with surprise.

Twenty minutes later, I arrived at the penthouse carrying a large bag of fresh fruit I’d purchased on the way. It seemed wrong to visit empty-handed.

Liam had been waiting and smiled when he saw me. “Why did you bring fruit? You’re not a stranger here.”

I smiled back. “Where’s the Alpha Sebastian?”

Liam pointed down the left corridor. “In his bedroom. It’s the middle door straight ahead.

Go on in-l’ll put the fruit in the refrigerator.”

“Thank you,”I said, handing him the bag before heading toward Alpha Sebastian’s room.

Only after knocking and entering-seeing Alpha Sebastian propped against the headboard in a deep blue robe, the entire room saturated with his distinctive scent of sandalwood-did I realize how inappropriate this might seem. I started to leave the door wide open.

“Close it,” came his cool voice from the bed.

I froze for a moment, then quickly closed the door as instructed, my heart suddenly peating faster than it had any right to.