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Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Three - The Lovemaking
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“What is he doing?” Luna whispered-asked Justin. “Can I have everyone’s attention please?” Brian asked into the microphone again. Luna watched as Brian’s gaze went to her sister, she followed his eyes too. Ashley looked shocked. No, shocked was too tame a word, she looked dumbfounded. “Oh my God, she doesn’t know,” Luna deduced as she watched her sister’s face. “She didn’t know that he was going to do this.” “No, she didn’t,” Justin said beside her. Luna turned her head to look at him. “But you do,” she deduced correctly again. Justin looked down at her, his eyes were unreadable, as usual. “I did,” he replied. When he saw the question in her eyes, he placed a hand on her shoulder. “Just listen,” he said. Luna’s eyes narrowed for a bit, but she turned back to look at Brian. So had the rest of the guests too, she noticed. Everybody’s attention was now turned to Brian, even Moira’s. Luna saw her out of the corner of her eyes, she turned to look at her fully. She was sta
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Luna turned to look at Justin. “You did that,” she said. The party guests were still cheering, Ashley and Brian were now locked in an embrace. Justin looked down at Luna too. “What did I do?” he asked, looking innocent. Luna rolled her eyes, she turned to fully face him. “Oh please, this has you written all over it,” she said. “You’re the one who brought Ashley and my mom here. You’re the only one who apparently knew about Brian’s plan, and who else to give him advice about love other than his big brother?” Justin laughed. “So you think I can give good advice about love, do you? I thought all I was to was just a bastard who you’d pick a waiter over,” he said. Luna looked at him, his lips were curved a little, and there was a teasing glint in his eyes. She gave him a look. “You were,” she said, remembering when she had indeed said that, “at the time. But, you’ve come a long way since then,” she admitted. She turned back to look at Ashley and Brian, still wound around each
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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
