Rebirth of the Broken Luna A Second Chance at Luna's Heart novel Chapter 185

Chapter 185

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We began walking back toward where we’d left the car, my parents chatting easily about dinner plans and whether we needed to stop for groceries on the way home. It was surreal, listening to them discuss mundane domestic concerns while the smell of charred flesh still

clung to our clothes.

“Do you think Riley will want pizza tonight?” my father asked. “Or should we cook something more substantial? He’s been through a

lot today.”

“Pizza sounds perfect,” my mother replied. “Easy, comforting, and no one has to spend hours in the kitchen. We can order from that

place he likes with the extra cheese.”

I walked behind them, my phone buzzing in my pocket. I pulled it out to see Thorne’s name on the caller ID.

“Thorne?” I answered.

“Xenois, thank god,” came his relieved voice through the speaker. “Riley’s awake. He’s asking for you and the doctors say he’s going to make a full recovery. You need to get back here as soon as possible.”

Relief flooded through me so intensely that my knees nearly buckled. “He’s really okay? The spell is completely broken?”

“Completely,” Thorne confirmed. “Whatever that witch did, it worked perfectly. He’s weak and tired, but he’s going to be fine. Carol says there shouldn’t be any lasting effects from the magical trauma.”

I felt tears prick at my eyes as the full weight of the day’s events finally hit me. My son was alive. My son was safe. The threat that had nearly destroyed my family was gone forever, burned to ash in the forest behind us.

“We’re on our way,” I said, quickening my pace to catch up with my parents.

“Tell Riley his father is coming, and that everything is going to be all right.”

‘Will do,” Thorne replied. “And Xenois? I’m sorry about Sophia. I know this couldn’t have been easy for you.”

I glanced back at the column of smoke still rising from the forest floor. “It was exactly as easy as it needed to be,” I said, surprised by

the conviction in my own voice.

After I hung up, my mother looked at me with raised eyebrows. “Riley’s awake?”

“Awake and asking for us,” I confirmed. “The spell is broken, and he’s going to be fine.”

“Thank goodness,” she said, genuine relief visible in her expression. “I was so worried about that boy. Now we can all go home and

pretend this whole nightmare never happened.”

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Chapter 185

“What about the body?” I asked, gesturing back toward the forest.

My father shrugged. ‘What body? I don’t see any body. Do you see any body, dear?”

“No body here, my mother agreed cheerfully. “Just a nice family walk in the woods that ended with everyone going home safe and sound.”

I realized then that this was how my family had always operated. They eliminated threats efficiently and thoroughly, then moved on with their lives as if nothing had happened. It was probably how they’d survived and thrived for generations in a world full of supernatural politics and deadly enemies.

The strange thing was, I found I didn’t feel guilty about what had happened to Sophia. She had tried to murder children. She had killed my sister. She had torn apart families and destroyed lives for her own twisted desires. Maybe my parents’ brand of justice was brutal and outside the law, but it was also final and absolute.

As we reached the car and began the drive back to the penthouse, I realized that I was becoming more like them than I’d ever imagined possible. And for the first time in my life, that didn’t frighten me.

It felt like coming home.

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Reborn From Regret A Second Chance at Luna’s Heart