My Dethroned Luna のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 41 - チャプター 50

As much as I visited Mikel during the two days he was at Navian's hospital, I made sure to avoid Navian. I carefully timed my visits for when I knew Navian would be busy or away.His assistance with Owen was much appreciated, more than I could say, but what had happened at Elena's party the night before had completely shocked me.I needed time to reflect and work through the conflicting feelings that were constantly racing through my head.Emily's voice cut through my thoughts, "The meeting tonight has been canceled, ma'am," pulling me back to reality.I said, "That's not good news," but I also experienced a slight sense of relief."But I could use some rest too. I'll leave early and go get Owen. You can close on time as well; it's been a hectic weekend.""Thank you, ma'am," Emily responded, her voice filled with gratitude.I nodded, though my thoughts were already drifting back to the party. What had really happened that night? Had Elena deliberately endangered Owen? I didn’t want to

We suddenly noticed Owen was no longer in my office. He liked to play around the mall and would often go meet Emily, who I believe must have left by now.“Owen!” I immediately alerted Navian, panic gripping me as I scanned the empty office. The fear was instantaneous and overwhelming.We began searching frantically around the mall for Owen. We combed through every corner we knew he usually played in, but he was nowhere to be found."Back to the main hall," Navian suggested as our eyes met, his urgency mirroring mine.The main hall? My heart skipped a beat. Please, don’t be there, I silently prayed. I tried to reassure myself by thinking that Landen and Hannah must have left; after all, it had been over an hour since we last saw them.This thought calmed me a bit, but a lingering dread gnawed at my mind—what if they hadn’t left?As we hurried towards the main hall, I heard a small voice from the other end of the mall, pulling me out of my thoughts."Hey, let it go!" a little boy’s voic

Going around the boutique to see how well everything was going today, sales had dropped drastically, and the thought of meeting Landen and Hannah never left me in the midst of that turmoil.The first thing that I noticed in the clothing racks was a few inches of his body height—Landen. Even in a horde, one could still pick him out from the back of the boutique effortlessly.A shudder while feigning a drink would have been less than my heart did with disbelief and agony buried deep inside me years ago. Why did he come back again? At least the last time we met there it was more of a coincidence than anything else as far as I was concerned.But this time when I saw him again there in this same spot, it dawned upon me that maybe it wasn’t pure coincidence after all. Perhaps he’d been searching for me?Running away was my immediate response; I didn’t want to face him anyway. But something inside me kept me standing there, no longer was I the woman he left behind—now she had grown stronger.

Hannah’s POVLanden had been acting strange for days now. Initially, I thought it was just stress from work but after observing him closely I became convinced that there was something deeper than that.He always appeared to be preoccupied with other things even when we were together. This made him seem far away yet near because he was never fully present in our midst and this started to irritate me.In the living room, Jasper played quietly with his toys on the floor and I could not resist checking out Landen every now and then. He sat in his favorite armchair staring blankly at a wall while holding an unopened book for half an hour or so.His forehead creased but there was no visible reason for this tension as he seemed to be carrying some heavy burden within himself“Landen?” I called softly, hoping to snap him out of his reverie.“Hm?” His head jerked slightly as if he had just remembered where he was. He looked over at me, his eyes dull and distant.“What is it?”“What’s going on

The sound of murmurs and glasses clinking surrounded me as I entered the huge ballroom, but all I could think about was breathing. I nodded and smiled at a few familiar faces as I made my way through the crowd, the silky fabric of my emerald dress skimming the ground.My heart was thumping harder than the background symphonic music beneath my ribs. Hannah and Landen were here, and I knew it.It was a question of time till our paths crossed.I had not planned to attend. The idea of seeing Landen again, especially with Hannah at his side, felt like walking into a storm. But Navian had insisted.This event was too important for our business, he’d said. I couldn’t let my past keep dictating my future. And he was right, I knew that. But knowing didn’t make it any easier. Now I was just Anna, a mother and a businesswoman trying to keep her life together. But tonight, with so many familiar faces from that past life, it felt like I was being sucked back into the storm of old memories and unr