The Abandoned Luna's Journey to Power (by Emily Reed) novel Chapter 206

Chapter 206 Roger’s Shock

Roger’s POV:

Inside the main hall of the Kazek estate.

I paced back and forth, unable to suppress the fire raging in my chest.

“That girl, how can she be this stubborn?” I slammed my palm onto the table, making the cups jump. “I already said I don’t believe it, and she insists on dragging some impostor here. Does she think the Kazeks aren’t in enough chaos already?”

Fiona, seated beside me, let out a quiet sigh, her voice light as if afraid of provoking me further. “Roger, Cindy isn’t someone who lacks judgment. If she’s insisting this hard, what if…”

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“There is no what if!” I cut her off sharply. My eyes reddened at once, my voice dropping lower and hoarser. “That body two years ago, I carried it out myself! The dagger and the necklace were real. How could there be a mistake? Bringing in some unknown beggar child now will do nothing but rip open our wounds and make us bleed again!

“I’m doing this for Mother, for Grandmother!” I ground the words out between clenched teeth. “If Grandmother learns there’s hope again, only to find out it’s false, can her heart take it? This could kill her!”

Just then, the butler came running in, breathless, his face drained of color. “My lord, this is bad. The Duchess of Silverpeak is standing right at the front gate. She says if you don’t come out, she won’t leave. And there are already quite a few townspeople gathering to watch.”

My face turned ashen.

“Fine. Fine. Fine.” I laughed in fury, my chest burning. “Since she insists on forcing my hand, I’ll go make things clear. I’ll crush this delusion once and for all.”

I strode toward the entrance, each step heavy enough to shatter stone.

The doors opened.

I stood on the steps, barely restraining my rage and Alpha pressure, my black robes snapping in the wind. Cindy stood below, looking at me coldly, without the slightest trace of the deference a junior should show.

“Cindy.” I descended the steps, my voice low and sharp with frost. “What exactly are you trying to do? Are you staging a coup?”

“I just want you to look,” she replied, equally low, pointing toward the carriage behind her. “Just one look.”

“I won’t look,” I refused flatly, not even sparing the carriage a glance. “Cindy, I know you’re hurting. You want Astra back. But the dead don’t return to life. If you found a similar-looking child outside, even if you adopted someone from a collateral branch of the Silverpeak Pack, I could accept that. But you cannot bring an impostor and use his name to deceive us!”

“There is only one Astra. He is irreplaceable. No one can take his place!”

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Chapter 206 Roger’s Shock

Her gaze wavered at those words.

I knew she understood.

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That was how I loved that child. Even if he were gone, I would never allow anyone to profane his name or the singular place he held in my heart.

But then she drew in a sharp breath, her voice trembling. “Roger, you know he’s irreplaceable. Then why are you afraid to even look? What are you afraid of?”

“I said I won’t look.” I waved her off impatiently, eager to end this farce. “Take that child and leave. The Kazeks will not play along with this charade.”

At that moment, the carriage curtain shifted slightly.

It was subtle.

But I saw it.

My heart clenched as if seized by an unseen hand.

I forced myself to look away, refusing to see or think.

The next second, Cindy exploded.

“Roger Kazek!”

She shouted my name outright, her voice sharp as a blade.

She spun around, strode to the carriage, and yanked the curtain open.

I saw a small, frail figure curled in the corner, face streaked with tears, staring at her in terror, shaking his head and trying desperately to shrink back.

“Come out!”

Ignoring the child’s struggle, she pulled him out and lifted him into her arms.

He was impossibly light, like a feather the wind could carry away.

Holding him, she marched up to me and nearly shoved the child into my face.

“Look!” she screamed, her voice shaking. “Open your damin eyes and look! This is the beggar you’re talking about. This is the impostor you claim he is!

“All the way here, he kept asking me whether his maternal family would despise him for being lame, whether they would despise him for being mute! I kept telling him you were the people who loved him most! And this is the result?

“For the sake of your so-called rationality, you won’t even look at him before driving him away?”

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Chapter 206 Roger’s Shock

Her barrage of fury forced me to stumble back half a step.

My brow knotted, my face filled with resistance and revulsion.

Yet my eyes were dragged, unwillingly, to the child in her arms.

And then-

Time seemed to stop.

The air froze.

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