Rebirth of the Broken Luna A Second Chance at Luna's Heart novel Chapter 192

Chapter 192

LUMINA

“I felt everything Ollie felt when the curse was connecting us,” Riley continued, his voice getting smaller. ‘I felt how scared he was,

how much pain he was in. I wanted to help him, but I didn’t know how.”

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Ollie reached across my lap to grab Riley’s hand. “You did help me. Even when you couldn’t do anything else, you were there with me.

I wasn’t alone because I could feel you.”

The door opened, and Thorne entered carrying a manila envelope. His expression was unreadable, but there was something in his

eyes that looked suspiciously like dark amusement.

“Well,” he said, his voice carrying that sarcastic edge I knew so well, “I have some results that might interest everyone.”

He held up the envelope with theatrical flair. “Fresh DNA tests for both boys, processed with all the speed that emergency requests

and substantial bribes can provide.”

Xenois stood up from where he’d been sitting by the window. “And?”

Thorne’s smile was sharp and satisfied. “Congratulations, Lumina. You’re officially the mother of twins. Both boys show identical DNA

markers confirming you as their biological mother.”

I felt a rush of relief so intense it made me dizzy. I’d known in my heart from the moment I held Riley, but having scientific

confirmation made it real in a way that nothing else could.

“Which means,” Thorne continued, his voice growing darker, “that someone went to considerable trouble to falsify the original

paternity tests six years ago. Someone wanted you to believe Riley wasn’t your son.”

The implications of what he was saying hit me like a slap across the face. This hadn’t been an accident or a mistake it had been a deliberate, calculated deception designed to tear apart my family.

“Who?” I asked, my voice deadly quiet. “Who did this to us?”

Xenois moved closer to the bed, his expression grim. “That’s what we need to find out. Thorne and I have been trying to remember details about when you gave birth, but everything from that time seems strangely fuzzy.”

I frowned, trying to recall the details of that day six years ago. It was strange I could remember the pain, the fear, the relief when I heard Ollie crying for the first time, but everything else seemed to exist behind a kind of haze.

‘I can remember the doctor’s name,” I said slowly. “But I never saw her again after the delivery, which I thought was odd at the time. Usually, your obstetrician follows up, but she just disappeared.”

“What was her name?” Thorne asked, pulling out a small notebook.

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“Andy,” I replied. “Dr. Andy Kingston. She was a woman, probably in her forties, with red hair and green eyes. Very professional, very

calm during the delivery.

The effect of this information on both Xenois and Thorne was immediate and dramatic. They exchanged a look that spoke of shared

recognition and growing alarm.

“Andy Kingston,” Thorne repeated slowly. “That name is familiar.”

“She was related to Sophia,” Xenois said, his voice tight with realization. “Andy Kingston was Sophia’s older sister.”

I felt cold dread settle in my stomach. “Related to Sophia? But that would mean…”

“That your son was delivered by a member of the family that ended up raising him,” Thorne finished grimly. “Which is one hell of a

coincidence.”

“It’s not a coincidence,” I said with growing certainty. “This was planned. She was there to steal my baby.”

Xenois ran his hands through his hair, a gesture I recognized as his way of processing overwhelming information. “But that’s impossible. Andy Kingston was banished from our territory over ten years ago. She murdered someone a rival pack member, I think. She

couldn’t have been practicing medicine in the city.”

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“Unless she was using magic to hide her identity,” Thorne suggested. “Or unless the banishment wasn’t as permanent as everyone

thought.”

I tightened my arms around both boys, feeling a surge of protective fury that made my earlier anger seem like a gentle breeze. Someone had stolen my baby, falsified medical records, and manipulated my entire family for years.

“There were always rumors about Andy,” Thorne continued, his voice thoughtful. “Even before the murder that got her banished, people whispered that she was studying dark arts. Forbidden magic that could alter memories, change appearances, manipulate biological

processes.”

“Manipulate biological processes,” I repeated, my mind racing. “Like hiding a twin pregnancy from the mother? Like making medical

tests show false results?”

“Exactly like that,” Xenois confirmed, his expression growing darker by the second.

I looked down at Riley, who was listening to our conversation with wide, frightened eyes. My heart ached thinking about what this meant for him – that his entire existence had been orchestrated by people who saw him as nothing more than a weapon to be used

against his real family.

“So Andy Kingston delivered my boys, somehow hid the fact that I was carrying twins, falsified paternity tests to make it look like Riley belonged to Sophia, and then disappeared,” I summarized. “All as part of some long-term plan to destroy our family.”

“That’s what it looks like, Thorne agreed. “The question now is whether Andy is still alive, and if so, where she is.”

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