All Chapters of The Luna He Didn’t Choose : Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

Bella’s POVNobody moved after the call ended.For a few seconds, the only sound in the room was the rain hitting the windows.Then Maya slowly lowered her coffee.“So…”Nobody looked at her.She glanced around.“That was terrifying.”Sarah gave her a look.“Thank you, Maya. Very helpful.”“I’m just saying.”James was still staring at his phone.“Ethan.”Ethan finally looked up.“What?”“Is there anything about your father that we don’t know?”Ethan’s jaw tightened.“No.”James raised an eyebrow.“Think carefully.”“I did.”“Ethan.”“I said no.”Something about his tone made my stomach twist.I looked at his hands.He was rubbing the side of his thumb against his palm.I knew that habit.He did it whenever he was nervous.Or hiding something.“Ethan.”His eyes immediately moved to mine.“Bella, I’m not hiding anything.”“Then why are you acting like you are?”His mouth opened.Nothing came out.Maya looked between us.“Okay, this is officially uncomfortable.”“Not now, Maya,” Sarah mu

Bella’s POVI should have known that when James said, “We’re going to the property first thing in the morning,” he did not mean first thing in the morning in the normal human sense.He meant six-thirty.Six-thirty in the morning was not a time.It was a punishment.I stared through the windshield while James drove, watching the trees blur past us as the sky slowly changed from dark blue to a weak shade of gray.Maya was asleep in the backseat.Or at least, she was pretending to sleep.Sarah sat beside her with her arms crossed, looking far too awake for someone who had apparently survived the same morning as the rest of us.Ethan was sitting beside me.He hadn’t said much since we left.Neither had I.Which was probably a good thing because I had spent the first twenty minutes thinking about his hand holding mine the night before, and I was not emotionally prepared to have that thought while sitting beside him.Especially when he kept glancing at me.I finally turned.“What?”His eyes

Bella’s POVFor a second, I genuinely thought I had stopped breathing.Not metaphorically.Not in the dramatic, my heart skipped a beat because the man I love is standing too close to me kind of way.I mean I actually forgot how lungs worked.The nurse stood in the doorway, staring at me like she had just dropped a bomb into the middle of the room and was waiting to see which one of us would explode first.Nobody moved.Nobody spoke.Then Maya whispered, “I’m sorry, what?”The nurse looked at her.Maya pointed at herself. “Because I think everyone heard you, but my brain rejected the information for self-preservation.”Sarah elbowed her.“What?”“You’re making this worse.”“I’m trying to process!”James stepped forward.“You said Bella’s baby wasn’t born dead.”The nurse nodded.“Yes.”Ethan suddenly moved.I felt his fingers tighten around mine, but he didn’t pull me anywhere. He simply stayed beside me.“Explain,” he said. His voice was terrifyingly calm.The nurse looked at him.“M

Bella’s POVThe address sat in my hand like it weighed a hundred kilograms.It was just a piece of paper, really, with a house number, a street name, and a city written in black ink, but somehow it felt heavier than every document I had ever held in my life because somewhere at the end of that address was a little girl I had spent years believing I had lost.My daughter was alive .The words still didn’t feel real.They kept bouncing around inside my head, crashing into memories I had carefully locked away because remembering them hurt too much.Ethan stood beside me, staring at the paper.“Give it to me.”I immediately pulled it against my chest. “No.”His eyebrows lifted.“Bella.”“No.”“I only want to look at it.”“You have eyes. Look from there.”He stared at me.I stared back.Maya slowly leaned toward Sarah.“They’ve been married before.”Sarah whispered, “I know.”“It’s obvious.”“I know.”“I just wanted to confirm.”I turned toward them.“Can both of you stop talking about us

Bella’s POVSomeone upstairs laughed quietly after Claire spoke.That laugh crawled beneath my skin immediately.I held Amelia tighter against my chest.Ethan remained completely still beside me afterward.His eyes stayed fixed upon Claire’s face.James looked equally confused by her accusation.Maya looked like she might actually faint.Sarah quietly grabbed Maya’s arm for support.“Someone who knows Bella extremely well?” James asked.Claire nodded slowly without looking toward me.“Someone who knows everything about Bella.”My stomach twisted painfully after hearing that.I stared at Claire, completely unable to understand.“Why would someone close betray me?” I whispered.Claire looked away before answering me slowly.“Sometimes closeness makes betrayal much easier, Bella.”“That sounds like something from terrible television.”Maya whispered that while trembling beside Sarah.Sarah immediately elbowed her sharply afterward.“What?” Maya whispered, looking completely offended afte