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Author: Rain Tummy
last update publish date: 2026-08-08 23:52:34

Bella’s POV

For some reason, the words on Ethan’s phone looked worse the longer I stared at them.

Ask Bella what happened the night your baby died.

I read them once.

Then again.

Then a third time, because apparently my brain had decided that suffering once wasn’t enough.

Nobody spoke.

Even Maya, who could probably find something sarcastic to say during her own funeral, was completely silent.

Ethan was staring at me.

Not at the phone.

Me.

His face had gone pale, and I could see the question form
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  • The Luna He Didn’t Choose    179

    Bella’s POVI couldn’t look at Ethan.Not because I didn’t trust him.Because I was terrified of what I might remember if I did.The room was completely dark now, except for the tiny red light blinking on the machine between us.Once.Twice.Three times.The same rhythm as Ethan’s old promise.Three squeezes.I’m here.But now the sound made my stomach twist.“What was the last memory?” Ethan asked quietly.I swallowed.“I don’t know.”It was a lie.Somewhere inside my mind, I knew.I could feel it.Like a locked door buried underneath everything I had remembered.And behind that door was something I had deliberately forgotten.Ethan stepped closer.“Bella.”I moved backward.“Don’t.”He stopped immediately.His face fell.“I won’t touch you.”I looked at him.He was trying so hard not to look hurt.That somehow hurt me more.“I need to know the truth,” I whispered.“I know.”“And if the truth is something terrible…”“I’ll stay.”“You don’t know that.”“I do.”“How?”He smiled sadly.

  • The Luna He Didn’t Choose    178

    Bella’s POVThe door slammed shut behind us.I spun around and grabbed the handle.It wouldn’t move.“Ethan!”“I know.”He pulled at it harder.Nothing.The red lights above us flashed faster, filling the room with an eerie glow that made everything look like it was covered in blood.Elena was gone.Noah was gone.James and Maya were gone.It was just Ethan and me.And the machine.I turned slowly.The machine was humming louder now.A screen flickered on.Then another.Then another.Hundreds of photographs appeared across the walls.Children.Doctors.Laboratory rooms.Families.And me.So many pictures of me that my stomach turned.“Why are there so many?”Ethan didn’t answer.He was staring at one photograph.I followed his gaze.It showed me at seven years old.I was sitting in a hospital bed.Beside me was the little girl from the photograph.The girl who looked exactly like me.Except she had a small scar beneath her chin.I touched my own chin.I had the same scar.My breathing

  • The Luna He Didn’t Choose    177

    Bella’s POVEvery memory hit me at once.I screamed.It felt like my head had been split open, and suddenly I wasn’t standing in the hospital anymore.I was somewhere else.Somewhere colder.Somewhere I had spent years trying to forget.The red room.But this time, I wasn’t eight.I was older.Sixteen.I was standing in front of a glass wall, staring at myself.There were wires attached to my arms.Blood was running down one side of my forehead.And Ethan was standing behind me.Except he wasn’t the Ethan I knew.He looked exactly the same.Same eyes.Same smile.Same stupid little expression he made whenever he was trying to hide that he was scared.“Bella,” he whispered.I turned around.“Are you okay?”“I don’t know.”He reached for me.I grabbed his hand.Three squeezes.I’m here.He squeezed back.Three times.I’m here too.Then the door opened.My father walked inside.Behind him was Dr. Vale.And behind them was my mother.My heart stopped.I watched the memory unfold.My mothe

  • The Luna He Didn’t Choose    176

    Bella’s POVFor a few seconds, nobody moved.Nobody breathed.Nobody even seemed to know what to say.I was still holding Ethan’s hand.But suddenly, his hand felt different.Not because it had changed.Because I had.Because Noah’s words had planted something inside my head that I couldn’t ignore.They killed the original Ethan.I looked at him.His eyes were fixed on Noah.“What do you mean?” Ethan asked.Noah didn’t answer immediately.His face looked terrified.“I remember the room.”“What room?”“The room where they kept the children after the experiments.”Ethan’s jaw tightened.“You were there?”Noah nodded.“I was there when they brought you in.”Ethan stepped forward.“You saw me?”“Yes.”“How old was I?”Noah looked at me.“Eight.”My heart sank.“And what happened?”Noah’s eyes filled with tears.“They said you weren’t responding.”Ethan’s breathing became heavier.“What did they do?”“They took you away.”“Where?”“The red room.”Silence.Ethan looked down at his hands.“I

  • The Luna He Didn’t Choose    175

    Bella’s POVThe moment Ethan’s hand appeared in my memory, everything around me disappeared.The hospital.The alarms.The shouting.Elena’s trembling fingers wrapped around mine.James yelling something from somewhere behind me.Maya crying.Noah staring at me like he already knew what I was about to remember.All of it faded away.There was only the red room.And Ethan.I blinked rapidly, but the memory did not disappear.Instead, it became clearer.I was younger.Much younger.I couldn’t have been older than eight.The room around me was covered in red lights, and there were wires attached to my head, my arms, and my chest, while a machine beside me kept making a soft beeping sound that somehow felt terrifyingly familiar.I was crying.I could feel the tears running down my cheeks.I could hear myself begging someone to stop.Then I felt a hand around mine.Small.Warm.Shaking.I turned my head.Ethan was sitting beside me.He was a child too.His face was covered in tears, and th

  • The Luna He Didn’t Choose    Trust

    Bella’s POVI stared at Elena as if the words she had just spoken had physically pushed me backward.Don’t trust Dad.My father.The man I had spent years believing was dead.The man who had just walked into a secret laboratory and told me he had been trying to protect me.The man who had told me my mother was alive.The man who had explained everything as if he had been carrying the truth all these years because he had no other choice.And now my sister was telling me not to trust him.“Bella!”Ethan’s voice snapped me back to reality.He was kneeling beside Elena, trying to keep her steady while water continued spreading across the floor from the shattered tank.“Help me get her up.”I immediately dropped beside him.“Elena, can you stand?”She nodded weakly.“I think so.”I slipped one arm around her waist while Ethan supported her other side.The room had become complete chaos.James was shouting at Maya and Sarah to stay behind him, the alarms were screaming so loudly that my ear

  • The Luna He Didn’t Choose    Chapter 5

    Bella POVThe next two weeks passed in a way that felt strange to me.For the first time in three years of marriage, Ethan was actually living in the house with me.Sometimes when I woke up in the morning, I would see his shoes by the door or his jacket hanging on the chair in the living room, and

  • The Luna He Didn’t Choose    Chapter 4

    Bella POVI had just finished arranging the jars of herbs in the small medicine cabinet in my room when my phone suddenly rang on the table beside me.For a moment I simply stared at the screen without moving, because Ethan’s name was flashing across it.My heart immediately started beating faster.

  • The Luna He Didn’t Choose    Chapter 3

    Bella POVAt that exact moment, his phone suddenly rang.The sound broke the heavy silence in the room.Ethan glanced at the screen and immediately answered the call.His voice softened slightly when he spoke.“Hello?”A familiar female voice echoed faintly from the phone speaker.“Ethan,” Clara sa

  • The Luna He Didn’t Choose    Chapter 2

    Bella POVFor a moment, Ethan didn’t move at all. His face was completely blank, and the silence between us stretched so long that my heart started racing again.Then he laughed but it wasn’t a happy laugh, It was short, cold, and full of disbelief.“You’re pregnant?” he repeated.I nodded quickly.

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