บททั้งหมดของ The Luna He Never Deserved: บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 5

The slippers were the first thing I saw when I came through the front door.Grey, women's, too small for me, set neatly beside the shoe rack with water still beading on the toes.I reached to unbutton my coat and stopped with my hand at the collar. The hall smelled of jasmine, and nobody in my house wore jasmine."Mrs. Delaney?"She came in from the kitchen wiping her hands, and she stopped a step short of me. Her eyes went to the wall behind my shoulder."Luna.""Does the Alpha have company?""I—" She started to answer, then didn't.Bare feet came across the floorboards behind her, unhurried, someone who wasn't listening for anyone.Rosalie walked into the living room with her hair down and damp at the ends, a towel over one shoulder, drying it as she came.She was wearing my pajamas. Cream silk with pearl buttons, the pair I kept in the third drawer of our bedroom dresser.Those pajamas lived in the third drawer of the dresser in the room I shared with my husband. Not the guest wing

My bag was still open on my lap when I looked up and found Isaac at the end of the bar, watching.His eyes went from Rosalie's hand on my husband's sleeve to me, then back again, and he put his glass down without drinking out of it.Finally he came over."Mrs. Vane."Rosalie didn't lift her face off Darius's chest."I know tonight is difficult for you," Isaac said. "But you're holding on to the Alpha in front of his men, and your Luna is sitting at this table.""I understand," Rosalie said into the shirt."Mrs. Vane." He waited until Marek set his bottle down, and by then most of the near end had stopped talking. "She's sitting right there."Rosalie came off him slowly, the way you do when you want a room to see how hard it is. She wiped under both eyes with the heel of her hand."I'm sorry. Grief doesn't ask if it's a good time." She smoothed her skirt over her knees. "Darius is one of the only people left who knew Cyrus properly. Who knew all three of us, back then."Then she turned

My phone had come out of my coat pocket when I went down, and it was lying under the edge of the cabinet with the screen still lit.I got two fingers to it and dragged it across the tiles.The pain came up through my side every time I moved my arm, so I stopped moving my arm and used my shoulder instead, and it took three tries to get her name on the screen.It rang."Aurelia, Finally yo—""Tamsin."I heard her chair go back. I heard her say my name again, and then something else after it, but the words had started coming apart before they reached me and the phone slid out of my hand and hit the floor by my face.She was still talking when everything went dark.I opened my eyes to a dark ceiling.There was a line taped into the back of my hand and a pull down my left side when I breathed, and I got my palm onto my stomach before I was properly awake.I stared around with a sinking disappointment.Nobody came.The chair beside the bed was empty and pushed against the wall, and there wa