Rebirth of the Broken Luna A Second Chance at Luna's Heart novel Chapter 48

Chapter 48

XENOIS

The drive home felt like the longest twenty minutes of my life. My hands were gripping the steering wheel so tightly that my

knuckles had gone white, and I could feel my wolf pacing beneath my skin, it was also agitated by the numerous emotions that were

going through me.

What I had witnessed in my own kitchen kept replaying in my mind.

Lumina’s face, filled with rage as she pressed Sophia’s hand against the burning stove. I could smell the scorched hand and I could

still hear Sophia’s screams of pain and terror.

The way my mate had looked at me afterward – not with shame or regret, but satisfied about what she had done.

There had to be an explanation somewhere. There had to be some reason why the woman I’d married, the mother of my child, had

committed such an act towards Sophia. Lumina wasn’t cruel. She was gentle, caring, protective of those she loved.

The woman I’d seen in that kitchen couldn’t be the mother of our kid who sang lullabies to Ollie every night.

But I knew what I’d seen.

I pulled into our driveway and sat in the car for a moment, trying to compose myself so that I wouldn’t let myself blow up at her immediately. A screaming match was not going to resolve the issue.

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My wolf was still agitated, confused by the actions of today. Part of him wanted to defend our mate, to find some way to justify her actions. But another part was beginning to question everything I thought I knew about the woman I’d bound myself to.

The house was quieter than usual when I walked in. I could hear voices coming from the study –

Ollie and his tutor, Marcus, working through the weekend lessons he’d missed during our disastrous playdate. At least my son was safely occupied, and nowhere near the disaster that was waiting to happen.

I found Lumina in our bedroom, sitting on the edge of the bed with her head in her hands. She looked up when I entered, and I was

taken back by how haggard she appeared.

Her face was pale, her eyes red-rimmed as if she’d been crying. For a moment. I felt my heart soften towards her and I had to resist the urge to comfort her.

“Lumina,” I said, closing the door behind me silently turning to face her completely.

“We need to talk.”

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She straightened her shoulders, and I saw her walls go up immediately as she narrowed her eyes at me, hardening when she saw me.

“I suppose we do.”

“What happened today? In the kitchen? I need you to explain it to me because I’m having trouble understanding how the woman I

married could do something so…” I struggled for the right word to use in this scenario. “So cruel.”

“Cruel?” Her laugh was bitter and short as she shook her head slowly.

“Is that what you think of me now?”

“I don’t know what to think. I saw you burn another woman’s hand, Lumina. I saw you hold her against a hot stove while she

screamed. What was I supposed to think?”

She stood up, pacing to the window overlooking our backyard. “You were supposed to trust me. You were supposed to believe that I

had a good reason for what I did.”

“Then give me one!” My voice rose despite my efforts to stay calm. “Give me a reason that makes sense, because right now all I can

see is that you attacked an innocent woman who was trying to apologize to you.”

“Innocent?” Lumina turned around to face me, her eyes filled with fury as she clenched her fist. “You think Sophia Kingston is innocent? You think she’s just your ex girlfriend who happened to innocently stumble into our life with no agenda?”

“I think she’s a woman who’s been through a lot, who’s trying to make a better life for her son. I think she reached out to me, as a result of our past friendship, and you repaid that with violence.”

‘She’s been abusing Riley!” Lumina’s voice was filled with desperation and anger. “She’s been burning his hands, terrorizing him, using him as a weapon against our family. And you’re so blinded by the fact that you love her still that you can’t see it!”

I felt something inside me recoil at her words.

‘Lumina, listen to yourself. You’re talking about conspiracy theories….”

“It’s not a theory! It’s real! She’s been grooming that little boy to hurt Ollie, to hurt our family. The burn on his hand, the way he

flinches around her, the device she made him wear-”

“Device?” I stared at her in disbelief, wondering what she was talking about. “What device?”

“On his right hand. Under his sleeve. She made him wear something that looked like a glove, and she kept telling him to shake Ollie’s

hand with it. She’s using magic, Xenois. Dark magic.”

“Lumina,” I said carefully, “I think you need help. Professional help. The paranoia, the delusions-

“They’re not delusions!” She was shouting now, her composure completely shattered as she ran a hand through her hair In sheer frustration. “Why won’t you believe me? Why won’t you protect your own son?”

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“I am protecting him! I’m trying to protect him from a mother who’s becoming increasingly unstable, who’s lashing out at innocent

people-

“Innocent people? She laughed, but there was no humor in it. You want to know what’s innocent, Xenois? An innocent woman doesn’t coach her five-year-old son on how to manipulate other children.”

“What are you talking about?*

“She told me to step aside. To let her and Riley have you. She said if I didn’t, she’d make sure that I have nothing left. Not you, and

not my son.”

I felt something shift inside me, her words sounding delusional to me every passing second. She has done nothing wrong. You burned her, Lumina. You held her hand against a hot stove like she was a piece of meat.”

“The same way she’s been burning her own son!”

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