Rebirth of the Broken Luna A Second Chance at Luna's Heart novel Chapter 71

Chapter 71

LUMINA

spoke.

Lumina. His hands came up to hold my face gently, forcing me to look directly into his eyes as he searched mine looking for something before he

I love you. You are my mate, my wife, the mother of my child. Sophia is… she’s a friend from my past. Nothing more.”

“Then why did she think she could kiss you? Why would she try something like that if she didn’t think you’d be receptive?” I insisted, not letting this slide under the mat. He had been devout to her, in this life and the last. Why was he still trying to act like he never still loves her.

His parents basically gave him permission to cheat on me, then again it was an arranged marriage and he has never told me that he loved me. It wasn’t

something that we exchanged. Hearing it from him still made me speechless and I wasn’t going to tell him I did too.

I already knew how the story would end. All I wanted to do was figure out a way to get his permission to leave the city and Ollie and I would be gone

forever.

My mate was someone who never saw the bad in Sophia. And I knew that he would still side by her if it came down to the both of us. But I needed to

know.

He was quiet for a long moment, his thumbs stroking over my cheekbones as he replied after a long stretch of silence.

“I don’t know,” he admitted finally as he shook his head slowly before continuing.

“Maybe she misread the situation. Maybe she thought… I honestly don’t know what she was thinking.”

The uncertainty in his voice did nothing to ease my fears or make me feel better about it. If anything, it made them worse, because it suggested that

maybe Sophia hadn’t misread anything at all from his end. Especially how he had been devoted to her, clinging to her like a moth was attracted to flames.

Maybe she’d seen something in Xenois’s behavior, some sign that he was still attracted to her, still affected by their past.

“I need you to be honest with me,” I said, my voice shaking slightly. “If you’re having second thoughts about our marriage, if you’re realizing that you

made a mistake choosing me over her, I need to know. I need you to tell me the bitter truth. I can’t keep living in limbo, wondering if my husband wishes he

was with someone else.”

“I’m not having second thoughts.” His voice was firm, absolute, and he sounded certain of what he was saying.

“I chose you, Lumina. Not because Sophia wasn’t available, not because you were a safe option, but because you’re the one I wanted to spend my life

with. You’re the one I fell in love with.” He said as I looked away from him pulling briefly from him as I closed my eyes.

“But you loved her first.”

“Puppy love. Teenage infatuation. What I felt for Sophia was nothing compared to what I feel for you.” He leaned his forehead against mine, his eyes

never leaving my face. “You’re my mate, Lumina. My true mate. Do you understand what that means?”

nodded, though I wasn’t entirely sure I believed it anymore. If it was true, why did I feel like I was losing him?

“Then trust me,” he whispered, his lips brushing against mine. “Trust in us. Trust in what we’ve built together.”

I wanted to. God, I wanted to trust him, to believe that what we had was strong enough to withstand whatever games Sophia was playing.

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SOPHIA

The slam of my apartment door echoed through the house like a gunshot, but it did nothing to reduce the anger that was burning hotly in my chest. I kicked off my heels with enough force to send one flying across the living room, where it hit the wall with a satisfying thud.

Six years. Six goddamn years I’d been waiting for this moment, planning every detail, sacrificing everything that I had and owned for the chance to

finally claim what should have been mine from the beginning.

And tonight, when I’d finally made my move, when I’d finally tried to break through whatever hold that pathetic woman for a mate had on Xenois, he’d pushed me away like I was nothing.

Like I was nobody.

*My hands shook as I grabbed my phone from my purse, scrolling through my contacts until I found Andy’s number.

The phone rang twice before she picked up on the third ring sounding calm and collected as she said,

“Sophia? It’s late. What’s wrong?”

“The necklace isn’t working,” I said, pacing back and forth across my living room, clenching and unclenching my free hand as I kept talking.

*The damn thing isn’t working, Andy. I’ve been patient, I’ve been throwing little hints at him, I’ve done everything you told me to do, and it’s still not

working.”

*Slow down,” Andy said, trying to catch up to what I was talking about as I gritted my teeth in anger. “Tell me what happened.”

“What happened is that I had the perfect opportunity tonight,” I said, my voice rising with each word as I kept talking.

“We were alone on the balcony, the mood was perfect, flowers and lights, I could see the confusion in his eyes when I touched him. For a moment, I

thought the spell was finally kicking in. But when I tried to kiss him, he pushed me away. Literally pushed me to the ground.”

“You tried to kiss him? Sophia, I told you not to rush things. If you force it too quickly, if you make the compulsion too obvious, his wolf will recognize that something is wrong and fight against the spell and reject you.”

“Don’t lecture me about rushing things!” I screamed, throwing my purse across the room, panting in anger.

How dare she talk to me about patience?

‘I’ve been waiting six years for this! Six years of watching him play happy family with that bitch while I’ve been stuck raising his brat and pretending to

be the perfect single mother!”

The silence on the other end of the line was loud and it went on for minutes. When Andy finally spoke, her voice was calm and neutral.

“Explain to me exactly what you mean by ‘his brat, Sophia.”

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