Rebirth of the Broken Luna A Second Chance at Luna's Heart novel Chapter 90

Chapter 90

LUMINA

I barely made it through the front door before the tears started falling from my fate.

All the events that just happened at school crashed down on me like a tsunami, and I found myself stumbling up the stairs to our

shared bedroom, my vision was blurred by the tears that was streaming down my face.

I locked the door behind me and slumped against it, sliding down until I was sitting on the floor with my knees pulled up to my

chest.

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The sobs that tore from my throat were both raw and painful, coming from somewhere deep inside where I had been burying all my desperate hopes that maybe this was going to be different.

My mate had chosen her. In public, in front of our son’s school, he had chosen Sophia over me. The way he’d looked at me with such disappointment and disgust, the way he’d rushed to comfort her after I’d finally stood up for myself – it felt like I was reliving my worst nightmare again. How was Xenois so cruel to do this to me?

But this time, it was supposed to be different. This time, I had been given a second chance and I still held out hope despite knowing how it ended with Ollie dead. I couldn’t bear to give Xenois benefit of the doubt. He was doing all this with a clear mind and heart. All his touches, and promises before even when he argued with his mum and remained on my side, I could see it for what it was. An act.

He had been fucking playing me all this while. Now I was seeing his true colors.

I pressed my face against my knees and cried until my chest ached, until my throat was raw and my eyes were swollen.

The memories of my past life kept flooding back, from where I had locked it up, in the deepest part of my mind.

I could still remember the way Xenois had been utterly devoted to Sophia, the way he’d protected her from every attack, real or imagined. The way he’d looked at me like I was nothing more than an obligation, like a duty he was just enduring for the sake of our

child.

In my past life, I’d fought for him, I had done everything I could. I was the, bitter woman. I’d fought so hard, tried so desperately to make him see me, to love me the way he loved her.

But the more I fought, the more he was drawn to Sophia. The more I tried to prove myself worthy of his attention, the more he

resented me for existing.

And now, even with the gift of rebirth, even with the knowledge of what was to come, I was watching the same pattern play out all over again. Just in different ways now. New memories that didn’t happen in my past life, did now, making me hopeful that maybe Xenois would be mine again only to realize it was an illusion, one he played out convincingly well to keep me contained.

Sometimes he was my mate tender, protective, loving. The man who had made love to me with such passion just yesterday morning.

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But then, in the blink of an eye, he became someone I barely recognized at all.

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Someone who could look at me with such cold disappointment that it made my soul ache.

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Sophia had been right about one thing I was nothing but a slave, despite the fact that I carried the title of being Luna. A reputable

figure in the city. All that were lies.

Truly, the truth that only few knew was that I was a prisoner in this city, trapped by laws and bonds I couldn’t break, and all I had been doing all this while was íromanticizing a relationship that was built on lies and deception and hurt. My mate would never release me from the territorial restrictions. He would never trust me enough to let me leave without an escort, to let me breathe without the pressure of being locked up, to let me exist as anything other than his captive.

Because deep down, he would always see me as the person who murdered his younger sister Xena five years ago, and the person that he had been forced to marry through an arranged marriage and he couldn’t be with Sophia anymore. Even though the evidence about how Xena died and who was responsible for it had never been clear, even though I insisted that I was innocent, he’d alongside his family had chosen to believe the worst of me. And that belief had poisoned everything between us.

I sat there on the floor of my bedroom, crying until I had no tears left, until I was all wrung out.

I couldn’t keep living like this. I couldn’t keep pretending that things might change with time and all my pains would be forgotten, I couldn’t keep pretending that he might suddenly see me as someone worthy of his love.

If I wanted to protect Ollie, if I wanted to save him from the tragedy that was coming, I needed to be able to leave this city. I needed to be able to act freely, without the constraints of an Alpha’s command keeping me chained to a place where I was barely tolerated.

Which meant I needed to do something I’d sworn I would never do.

I pulled out my phone with shaking hands and scrolled through my contacts until I found the number I’d blocked years ago. The number I’d told myself I would never call unless it was over my dead body.

Alpha Zade’s number.

My finger kept hovering over the unblock button for a long moment. Zade was Xenois’s enemy, his rival in every way that mattered. The two Alphas had been at odds with each other for years, their territories kept in an uneasy truce that everyone knew was temporary.

Intruding on one’s territory without permission was seen as an act of war, and any communication between both packs was carefully monitored and only sent after being approved by their Alphas of the pack.

But Zade had also been the one person who’d ever offered me a way out. Years ago, before I’d he’d made it clear that if I ever needed help, if I ever wanted to leave, he would find a way to make it happen.

I’d been too proud then, and was focused on the idea that I could make my marriage work despite the obstacles. But now, with my son’s life hanging on the balance and with my mate changing his behavior like he was bipolar every day, pride was a luxury I couldn’t

afford.

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I unblocked the number and dialed before I could lose my nerve.

He picked up on the first ring.

“Well, well, well, his familiar voice came through the speaker, filled with amusement and something that might have been concern

attached to it as well.

“It seems today must be my dying day, because you swore never to contact me unless it was over my dead body.”

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