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Chapter One Hundred and Eight - The Jilted
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“You don’t love, you don’t need me, you don’t need the baby,” Luna repeated Justin’s words from six years ago word for word, “and you never will.” Even now, her throat burned as she said the words. She looked at Justin, they were in the kitchen, both seated on opposite sides of the countertop. It was night, Justin had come back from work some thirty minutes ago, and Luna from the funeral of Mr. Reese. Maybe it was the passing on of a life, and the message it brought to home of how short life really was, or maybe she was just tired of it all, whatever it was, Luna had finally reached her breaking point. That was how she thought of it. She had finally gotten to the point where she didn’t want to keep it in anymore, where she didn’t care about anything anymore. Not of seeing herself as weak if she talked about her hurt, or about giving Justin ammunition over her by revealing how much his indifference had hurt her. She didn’t care about any of it anymore, she just wanted to alleviat
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“You don’t love, you don’t need me, you don’t need the baby,” Luna repeated Justin’s words from six years ago word for word, “and you never will.” Even now, her throat burned as she said the words. She looked at Justin. “Do you know what those words did to me? Do you know how much they hurt? How they destroyed me?” she demanded of him. Justin didn’t reply, she hadn’t expected him to. She knew the answer, and the answer was that he didn’t know. He wasn’t there when she broke down on the living room floor that day and thought she was going to die. He wasn’t there, he didn’t see, and he could never know. But she could tell him. She stood up from the stool, she started to pace. “Do you know what it meant for me to leave my home, everything I knew, at the age of 22? And come to a city I didn’t know, a place where I didn’t know anybody, a place that was so different from where I was coming from.” Luna’s throat burned, her voice scratched. “I was in a foreign place, and the one person
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“Lied to me?” Luna asked. Justin looked at her. “Lied to you,” he confirmed. “I didn’t mean any of those things that I said to you that day. Not a single one.” Before Luna’s instantly pounding heart could get further out of control, Justin’s next words settled it. “I am not saying I was in love with you,” he said, “I didn’t allow myself to feel it, more accurately. I made sure to not allow myself feel anything towards you, because of the same reason that I couldn’t accept your love.” Luna was itching at this point to ask what the reason was, but she refrained from doing so. Justin had to tell it himself, in fact, he was going to. She could see it in his eyes, he was leading up to it, she just had to give him time. But she was antsy. “And the reason has to do with your dad,” Justin continued. He sighed again and ran his hand through his hair this time. Following Justin’s words, and watching him, Luna suddenly wasn’t sure she wanted to hear the reason anymore. “You were to
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Two days later, Luna was in her office again. She shut down her laptop and stood up from her chair, it was already closing time, most of her employees would have left already. Luna felt she had put in a good day today as she packed up her things from her desk, she turned out the light from the lamp on her desk. Maintenance would do the rest when they turned off all the lights in the entire building. Today had been a really good day, Luna thought to herself as she checked around her office to make sure she hadn’t left anything behind. Very productive, efficient and a lot of good work done. She took joy in that. But she was paying the price in the back pain she was even now starting to feel in her lower back. Luna touched a hand to it, the back pains were getting more frequent with each day. She frowned, she couldn’t start agreeing with Justin that it was already time to cut back on work now, could she? And Justin must not even know about the back pains, because he would just blow
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The next day, the whole issue with Honor took a back seat in Luna’s mind as she found herself with an entirely different, and bigger, situation on her hands. Another article was leaked, this one about her father. It dug up the old news about her father, and the issue he had with Lake Industries, the debacle that had brought Luna to New York and to Justin. The article was all about rehashing what her father did, how he ‘betrayed’ Lake Industries for a handout, and how he disappeared from the grid because of his shame. His name, face and story were plastered all over the news article. Even her mother and sister were not left out, Mira and Ashley’s faces and names were printed in it too. Feeling sick about it all, Luna pressed a hand to her stomach, she stood still, trying to get in a deep breath. She was at home, people were in the house, Justin had called an emergency press conference immediately the news had hit the media. Camera men and their crew were moving about the living
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“I really needed that,” Luna said two hours later, as she and Justin walked back into the studio. Justin wiggled his eyebrows at her. “Which part?” Luna laughed, she swatted his arm playfully. “The food and nice view part, you pervert.” Justin shrugged. “Hey, you sounded like you enjoyed the other part very much too when we were doing it.” Luna laughed again, she shook her head. “You’re an idiot.” “An idiot you were screaming his name,” Justin leaned down and whispered into her ear. Luna looked up at him, her eyes widening. “Justin!” Somebody cleared their throat behind them, Justin and Luna both turned at the same time to look. The smile and teasing glint in her eyes were still there when Luna’s eyes met Honor’s. “Honor,” she said, startled. She sobered up immediately, Honor looked at Luna, like she focused on her like she was determined to act as though Justin was not there. Luna felt the freeze, but somehow she felt like Honor’s acknowledgement of her was not part
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One week later. Luna rubbed the kinks out of her neck, she had been stuck going through things that needed to be put in place for the Gala, all morning. All week too. Ever since Honor pulled her company out of the Gala event, there had been slacks in the work that needed to be done. Both in the parts that Honor had taken up to do, and in the aspects that her company had been taking care of. The fashion aspect. “These are really good,” Luna commented, looking at the design sketches that had been left by Honor and her company before she left. “Yeah,” Temperance, the assistant working with Luna on deciding the fashion angle for the Gala, said beside her. “Miss Kosarin and her people really worked hard on it, they worked almost round the clock too. It was like there was some competition or something.” Luna knew better that Temperance just what she was saying. From the first day they had met, she and Honor had both known there was going to be a competition between them. They had
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Present. Luna and Justin were both in Justin’s car, they were driving after Honor. After her announcement, Honor had dropped the mic and immediately left the party. Moira had been livid, she hadn’t shown it, of course, or at least not in an explosive way. She hadn’t screamed or shouted, or done anything of the sort. Even in the face of what someone like Moira would probably term the greatest betrayal of all time, she still hadn’t lost control. She hadn’t shown her anger to the guests or given them a show that they could go talk about to the blogs. No matter her personal feelings towards Moira, Luna had had to admit that she found that impressive. But even with her composure, Luna had known she was angry. In fact, it had been very obvious to her, and no doubt to her family members too. She saw the look Justin, Logan and even Brian, had exchanged when it happened. The vein that had popped out on Moira’s forehead had been the first tell, followed by the twitching at the corner of
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Flashback. “So you’re saying there’s nothing you can do?” Brandon asked the lawyer. Luna was in her room, the room she shared with Justin, although ‘shared’ was a strong word for how much time Justin actually spent in the room with her these days. Luna shook her head to shake off those thoughts, thinking about the ever increasing distance between she and Justin for the past month would only just make her depressed. And she didn’t have the time or head space for that. She refocused her attention on the matter at hand. She was in the room, her mother and father were on a call with her, Luna stared at their faces on the laptops screen. A man was seated beside her, Carl James, her lawyer. He was a low budget lawyer, the type she had been able to afford on her own, hers and her parents, that is. She couldn’t tap into the generous money Justin kept depositing into her account almost every day. And she couldn’t do that because she couldn’t very well use his money to hire a lawyer who
