Chapter Forty-Two - The Link

“What in the world is wrong with this day?” Rita demanded minutes later.

Honor had gone, and Rita was once again back in Luna’s office. This time though, she wasn’t seating down as she had been before, she was pacing.

“No, seriously, what in the world is wrong with this day?” Rita demanded again. “Can nothing go right today?”

Unlike Rita, Luna was seated, her head was thrown back on the headrest of her chair. Her eyes were closed.

“Please, don’t jinx it,” she murmured.

“You only jinx good days,” Rita said. “This one’s a day from hell. And it’s not even nine o’clock yet.”

Rita sighed, she continued pacing.

“First, the ex mother-in-law, who guards the hell we’re talking about here, comes to sink her claws into you and drop a bomb, and merely minutes after, the new shiny thing on the block- who is also a spawn of the she-devil ex mother-in-law from hell- comes in to do virtually the same.” Her eyes still closed, Luna heard, rather than saw, Rita’s hands fall to her sides. “I mean,