Rebirth of the Broken Luna A Second Chance at Luna's Heart novel Chapter 190

Chapter 190

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The transformation in my son was instantaneous and miraculous. The hollow emptiness disappeared from his eyes, replaced by pure

elation as he tried to scramble out of his hospital bed. Riley ran toward him, and they crashed into each other in a desperate hug, both boys crying as they clung to each other like lifelines.

“I thought you were gone,” Ollie sobbed into Riley’s shoulder. “I felt you disappear, and I thought I’d never see you again.”

“I’m okay,” Riley whispered back, his small hands fisted in Ollie’s hospital gown. “I’m okay, and you’re okay, and we’re both safe now.”

I watched this reunion with growing horror and fury, my mind racing as I processed what this meant. If Riley was here, then Sophia had to be here too. The woman who had tried to murder my son, who had torn apart my family, who represented every nightmare that

had plagued me for months, was somewhere in this building.

The rage that had been simmering beneath the surface for days finally boiled over, and I felt my control snap completely.

“Thorne,” I said sharply, my voice cutting through the boys’ emotional reunion. “Watch the children.”

Then I turned to Xenois, my eyes blazing with fury. “You. Hallway. Now.”

I didn’t wait for his response. I stormed out of the room, my heels clicking sharply against the hospital linoleum as I put distance between myself and the scene that had just unfolded. Behind me, I could hear Xenois following, his footsteps hesitant and uncertain.

When we were far enough away that the boys wouldn’t overhear, I whirled around to face my mate, all the anger and hurt and betrayal I’d been holding back finally exploding to the surface.

“What the hell is the meaning of this disrespect?” I snarled, my voice low and dangerous, “How dare you bring that child here? How dare you bring his mother into our lives again after everything she’s done?”

Xenois held up his hands in a placating gesture, but I wasn’t interested in being placated. Not anymore.

‘Lumina, please, let me explain-”

‘Explain what?” I interrupted, my voice rising despite my efforts to keep it controlled. “Explain why you’ve brought the evidence of your infidelity to our son’s sickbed? Explain why you’re forcing me to face the child you created while you were supposed to be faithful to me? Explain why Sophia is apparently here, in this hospital, where she can finish what she started with Ollie?”

“Sophia isn’t here,” Xenois said quickly, his eyes wide with something that looked like panic. “She’s… she’s not going to be a problem

anymore.”

Something in his tone made me pause, my anger momentarily overshadowed by confusion. “What do you mean she’s not going to be a

problem? Where is she?”

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Xenois ran a hand through his hair, a gesture I recognized as a sign that he was struggling with how much to tell me. She’s dead,

Lumina. She’s gone. She can’t hurt anyone anymore.”

The simple statement hit me like a physical blow, leaving me staggered. ‘Dead? How? When?”

“Does it matter?” Xenois asked quietly. “What matters is that the threat to our family is over. Riley is safe, Ollie is safe, you’re safe.

The nightmare is finally finished.”

I stared at him, trying to process this information while my emotions churned in chaotic waves. Relief that the woman who had

terrorized us was gone. Confusion about how and when this had happened. And underneath it all, a growing suspicion that there was

more to this story than Xenois was telling me.

“You still haven’t explained why Riley is here,” I said, my voice calmer but no less dangerous. “Dead mother or not, I don’t want that

child anywhere near our family.”

Pain flickered across Xenois’s features, and he took a step closer to me. “Lumina, there are things about Riley that you don’t

understand. Things that change everything.”

“Such as?”

He took a deep breath, and I could see him gathering his courage for whatever revelation was coming next. “Riley is our son.”

The words hung in the air between us like a bomb waiting to explode. I felt my brain struggling to process what he’d just said,

rejection and disbelief warring with a terrible, growing certainty.

“That’s impossible,” I whispered, but even as I said the words, I was thinking about Riley’s dark hair, his familiar features, the way

Ollie had reacted to seeing him.

“When you gave birth to Ollie, you were carrying twins,” Xenois said gently. “Somehow, through magic or manipulation or something else entirely, Riley was taken from us. We never knew he existed until a few days ago.”

I felt the world tilt sideways as the implications of his words crashed over me. Twins. I’d been pregnant with twins and never known it. My baby, my other son, had been stolen from me before I’d even had a chance to hold him.

The rage I’d felt toward Riley, the resentment and bitter jealousy, transformed into something else entirely a primal, maternal fury

that made my earlier anger seem like a gentle breeze,

“Someone stole my baby,” I said, my voice barely above a whisper but carrying the promise of violence.

“Yes,” Xenois confirmed. “And now we have him back. Both our sons are safe, and the person responsible for separating us is gone. We

can finally be the family we were always meant to be.”

I looked back toward Ollie’s room, where I could hear the faint sounds of the boys talking excitedly to each other, and felt something shift inside me. The child I’d resented wasn’t the evidence of my mate’s betrayal – he was my son. My baby who had been stolen from me

and raised by the woman who had tried to destroy us all.

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The fury burning in my chest wasn’t going away, but it had found its proper target. Not Riley, not Xenois, but whoever had

orchestrated this separation in the first place.

“I want to know everything.” I said, turning back to face my mate. “Every detail about how this happened, who was responsible, and what you did to them. And then I want to go home and start figuring out how to help both our sons heal from this trauma.”

Xenois nodded, relief visible in his posture. “I’ll tell you everything. But first, don’t you want to properly meet our son?”

I looked toward the room again, hearing Riley’s laughter mixing with Ollie’s, and felt my heart break and mend itself simultaneously.

“Yes,” I whispered, tears starting to fall as the full weight of what I’d lost and found again hit me. “I want to meet my baby.”

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