Rebirth of the Broken Luna A Second Chance at Luna's Heart novel Chapter 228

Chapter 228

RILEY

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The house felt like it was closing in on me, not just that, it also seemed that the walls were getting smaller with every breath I took.

At first, being here with my real mama and papa and brother had felt like a dream, one that I didn’t want to wake up from because I had wished for this moment and it didn’t disappoint- they were so much nicer than I’d expected, and they were also gentle and patient with me even when I didn’t understand things or said the wrong words that seem to hurt them or make them angry but not at me.

But now I felt trapped between two different worlds, with every passing day and nobody would give me straight answers about the most important question of all: where was Mama Sophia?

Everyone kept telling me she was “on a trip” and that she “wouldn’t be coming back,” but what did that even mean? They didn’t explain it well and they sounded so confident about it. Was it bad news for me? Had she decided to abandon me completely after seeing that I was not worth it anymore? Had I done something wrong that made her not want me anymore? I know that I should not think such ways because she pushed me off a cliff, but she also told me that was the only way she would love me and I felt I had cheated, surviving it.

The guilt was eating me alive from the inside, no matter what I did. I’d been enjoying my time with my real family, had started to feel safe and maybe even loved here, and that felt like betraying Mama Sophia.

She’d raised me herself, all these years and before she became cruel, she taught me important things, kept me alive when nobody else cared if I lived or died in Shadow City. Even when the lessons hurt, even when Aunt Andy’s training was scary and painful for me to withstand, Mama Sophia had always come back for me and took me with her. This was the first time that I had been separated from her for so long for as long as I could remember.

her.

But now she was gone, and I didn’t know if it was because she didn’t want me anymore or because something bad had happened to

The not knowing about her fate was worse than any of Aunt Andy’s punishments had ever been.

I wanted to call her, to hear her voice and tell her I was sorry for liking my real parents, to ask her to forgive me for being happy somewhere else and for secretly relieved that she wasn’t with me. Maybe if I explained that I still loved her too, that I missed her and wanted her to come back, she would forgive me for being confused about where I belonged.

My hands shook as I reached for the tablet that Papa Xenois had bought for me during our trip here, where I had spent all my time on it while Papa Xenois was panicking about being days late to see them and Uncle Thorne had to set him straight. It was newer and fancier than anything Mama Sophia had ever been able to give me, but right now it felt like my only connection to the person who had been my whole world for five years.

I opened the phone app and carefully dialed Mama Sophia’s number from memory, this was one of the few numbers that I had memorized and the other number was Aunt Andy although there was nothing that would make me call her. My heart pounded so hard I could hear it in my ears as the phone rang once, twice, three times.

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Please pick up, I prayed silently. Please just talk to me.

The ringing stopped, and my heart leaped with hope.

‘Hello? Who is this?”

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But instead of Mama Sophia’s voice, I heard Papa Xenois speaking in a tone that sounded angry and demanding.

Confusion washed over me like someone had bathed me with cold water. Why was Papa answering Mama Sophia’s phone? How did he even have her phone?

Fear shot through me as I realized what this might mean. Had they found her? Did they find out that she had pushed me off the cliff?

I don’t remember telling anyone about that? Had they hurt her? Was that why nobody would tell me where she was?

I ended the call immediately, throwing the tablet onto my bed like it had burned me as I pushed myself away from it trying to regain

some semblance of control here.

My breathing came fast and shallow as my mind went on thinking about all the terrible possibilities that would result to this. If Papa

had Mama Sophia’s phone, if she wasn’t on a trip like everyone kept telling me…

“Who were you calling?”

I spun around to find Ollie standing in the doorway, frowning at me with that concerned expression he got whenever he thought I was doing something I shouldn’t be doing.

He was faster than me, reaching for the tablet before I could grab it back, and I watched his face change when he saw the name still

displayed on the screen.

“Mama Sophia?” he read aloud, his voice getting angry. “Riley, she’s not your mama anymore! You need to stop calling her that!

I lunged for the tablet, snatching it away from him as I felt myself getting angry with him. “Don’t look at people’s things without

permission!” I snapped, clutching it protectively against my chest, holding it breathing heavily. He didn’t have to like Sophia but she was

still my Mama.

“She was hurting you!” Ollie insisted, his green eyes filled with a kind of anger that always made me feel small and guilty for

supporting Mama Sophia. ‘She did bad things to you, Riley! Why do you still want to talk to her?”

“I just wanted to hear her voice,” I said desperately, trying to make him understand something I didn’t fully understand myself. ‘I wanted to know when she’s coming back. That’s all.”

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