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Chapter Eighteen – The Stage
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Luna downed another glass of champagne as she looked around the hall. It seemed like her little spar with Justin had cleared her head of the little buzz she had felt from the two other glasses she had downed earlier.“Damn you, Justin,” she muttered to herself. The man had taken almost everything from her, now he was taking away her ability to get drunk? Where in the world was that even fair?But then again, the world wasn’t fair now, was it? Luna let out a breath, placing her empty glass back on the table. If the world was fair, she wouldn’t be going through a world of hurt as she tried to get back at her ex-husband and his mother for ruining her life all those years ago now, would she? If the world was fair, she wouldn’t even be hurt in the first place. If the world was fair, she would have been loved by Justin, and she would have been happily married to him. If the world was fair-“Luna,” a voice said from behind her.Now what? Luna asked herself silently. She rolled her eyes
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What the hell am I still doing here? Luna paced the empty compound behind the hall moments later as the question pounded in her head.All through the party, ninety five percent of the people she’d met had hurt her in one way or the other. There was the woman who had made her life a living hell and humiliated her family multiple times, the man who had pretended to be her friend but had actually been a spy for the same woman. The ‘friend’ who had been nothing but a manipulator who demeaned her with her cleverly constructed words presented as compliments. Luna let out a breath, she continued pacing. Or was it the man whom she had loved, carried his child in her and felt the life they’d both created, and who all he’d ever done was to repay her with hatred.What the hell was she doing here? What the hell was she doing at all, getting mixed up with Justin again. Haven’t the past taught her anything at all? Was the humiliation she went through in her marriage to Justin not enough? Was th
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“You’re still here?” Logan asked as Luna walked back into the hall. Luna stopped by his table, she picked up the champagne flute on it and downed its contents in one gulp.“Yep,” she turned to Logan and gave him a dry smile, “it’s like I want to deliberately punish myself, you know?”Logan smiled, the crease by his eyebrows showed, reminding Luna of how she always loved to see him smile. She had never seen that crease on Justin’s face, because he has never smiled. At least not that she knew of, and definitely not to her.“I’d be the first person to say my family’s not easy,” Logan said. “I’ve always admired your fairness and grace when talking about Justin and Moira to other people, considering they’re the two people who made your life miserable for years.”Luna shrugged and gave a wry smile. “Well, if I had said negative things about them, I surely would have paid for it in tenfold now, wouldn’t I? It would definitely find a way to come back and affect me, she always found a wa
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Matt pulled up in the front of the hall, Luna got into the car and he drove off again. “How was the party?” Matt asked as he merged with the city’s traffic.Luna knew he was only asking as a courtesy, so she managed to drum up a smile for him.“It was nice,” she said.Matt nodded. “Good.”Luna gave him another managed smile, Matt continued driving, in silence. Luna rubbed two fingers on her forehead, there was a slight headache already brewing there. There was a dull pounding in her head too, but Luna knew that was the aftermath of the glasses of champagne she had downed at the party. And she was tired, not so much physically, but mentally. She was tired in her soul. Her heart was sick, she rubbed a hand over her chest where her heart was, there was a stinging pain there and she didn’t know what to do about it.She thought she had passed that phase. She thought she’d passed the phase where Moira’s words could still get to her and hurt her, she thought she’d passed the stage
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Luna walked into the boardroom, Jaden trailed in behind her. Most of her executives were already seated, some were chatting idly while some typed away on their laptops. They all turn to look at her as she walked in.Greetings rang out as she made her way towards her chair at the head of the long conference table. Luna smiled and waved a little, Jaden started to pull out her chair but she stopped him. “I can pull out my own chair, Jaden, but thanks,” she said. She gave him a smile as she turned to take her seat. She looked around the room at large. “Hmm, must have been some weekend, ya’ll out here looking fresher than me.”Muted chuckles rang out amongst her employees, a handful of them smiling at her joke. “Then our weekends are your regular days because-”“Because I look good every day,” Luna helped the employee who had spoken, out, when she trailed off. She smiled at her. “Thank you, Janine.”At Luna’s acknowledgement, Janine blushed and smiled. Janine Waters, financial exec
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Everybody in the room turned to look at Cash, Luna could feel their eyes on her as they slowly turned to look back at her too. Luna’s eyes remained on Cash, she stared without saying a word, waiting for him to look at her. After a few silent seconds, he did. His eyes skittered away for a moment when they met her direct ones, he looked back at her, he shrugged.“That’s just my opinion,” he said. “I’m sorry-”“No, you’re not,” Luna interjected.Cash blinked, he shifted a little in his seat, his gaze flittered away from hers again.“I’m just saying-”“If you want to, you will sit up when you do it,” Luna cut him off again. “I am not your buddy.”The authoritative tone in Luna’s voice was like a slap. Her gaze intentionally remained direct and fixed on Cash’s face. He blinked again, he cleared his throat, and sat up on his seat. The boardroom was quiet now.Cash opened his mouth to speak again, Luna interjected smoothly.“I did not hire you, Mr. Brooks, for your advice on the eve
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