Alpha’s Rue: His Shunned Luna (Athena Enchanted) novel Chapter 449

Chapter 449

“Are you sure?”

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She nods, “Positive. I might cry a little every now and then because my heart is stupid like that, but I’m thriving, swears.” She smiles, but I don’t believe it. She might be smiling right now, but I can tell she’s hurting just thinking about what Dati and Rowan did to her. “Tell me about you,” she pouts. “I came here because I heard Kingston tell my brother you weren’t well.”

“I went crazy.”

“What?”

I nod, ashamed of the memories I don’t even recall. I start to tell Noah everything, from the moment I walked into the conference room up until I woke up in the hospital. I try not to sob through it, but Noah cries, which makes me cry too. The worst thing that happened to me was that I lost myself, and not knowing any of the things I did while I was Riley is part of the reason why I take so long to fall asleep. And since seeing that fucked up memory of Audrey and me, I can’t help but wonder how many times that happened, how many times did I cheat on King with her? And how did we get so close so fast? That woman hates me, it makes no sense, but I don’t want to think about it.

Noah is just as comforting as Kingston, but coming from her, it means so much more because she wasn’t the one who stuck me in that shithole. The crying stops the moment Lexie knocks at the door with our lunch, we both start talking about food instead, and reminiscing about all the fun we had before the incidents that broke our hearts.

“I’m so glad you’re here,” I smile. “How long are you staying?”

“Umm, a few days.” She trails off, staring into the distance before meeting my gaze again. “I’ll spend the rest of my leave with daddy, it’ll lessen the blow for when I go back to work.”

“Work? Did you get another job?”

She shakes her head, “I took two months leave from VU, I’ll be back at work after that.”

“Here?” I gasp, wanting to see if I heard her wrong. “I thought you’d left for good.”

“I did consider it,” she nods. “But then, I figured if I was staying here, then I might as well keep my job. I love working at VU, and after I had a few days to calm down, I couldn’t give up on it just because I was hurt.”

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