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Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Four - The Defense
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“You are not married, is that correct?” the interviewer asked, looking between Luna and Justin. “No, we’re not,” Justin replied evenly. The interviewer nodded, he glanced down at the tablet on his lap. “According to our sources, you live together though. Is that correct?” he asked again. “We do,” Justin replied, as evenly as before. “You’re both having a baby,” this time, the interviewer looked at Luna. A beat, Luna felt Justin’s warm and strong hand holding hers firmly. “Yes, we are,” she replied. “And how do you feel this affects both your image?” the interviewer asked. “We have no feelings towards that,” Justin was the one who replied now. He gave the interviewer a steady look. “It wouldn’t change the way our image is seen.” The interviewer looked at Justin, he smiled a little at him. “I guess it wouldn’t,” he agreed. “But it still bears being careful of the sort of image you put out there. You are both successful business people, you have a major project you
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You never let go of my hand once,” Luna said. She was still looking down at the tablet in her hand, the interview had run its course and she was just staring at a blank screen. She looked up at Justin, he looked back at her. “You never let go of my hand,” she repeated. Somehow that had stuck for her, during the interview, after, on their ride back home that they were still currently on. Justin looked steadily at her. “I will not let go of your hand,” he said. Ever, Luna completed in her head. She could almost hear it anyway. Her heart stuttered in her chest, the steady way Justin was looking at her, his declaration that he would never let go of her hand, and the fact that she knew he meant he would ‘never’ let go of her hand. Like, forever. Was Justin planning on being in her life forever? Could she trust that? Could she risk her heart, her mind, her soul, her body, everything she had worked hard to piece together after he left her shattered and broken six years ago? Could
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Luna lowered the phone from her ear, she stared at a spot on the floor of the living room. Rita’s words were still repeating in her head, she couldn’t believe what she had just heard. But she could. Oh, she could, Luna thought to herself as a sick feeling spread through her. She couldn’t believe she had been happy just a few minutes ago, Luna pressed a hand to her stomach as the sick feeling coiled through her. She had not just been happy, she had been healed, more healed than she had remembered feeling in a long time. The safety and warmth she had felt from Justin’s hand on hers during the interview, and how strongly and steadily he had defended her and the baby they were making together to the interviewer without any doubt, had given her that healing. It had made her happy, a soft kind of quiet happy, that had spread through the cracks in her heart, and healed it just a little bit. She had been happy, so she had finally felt like she could take a chance. Take a night for herself
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Thirty minutes later, Luna stood in front of Moira’s door. She had pressed the buzzer, and she could hear footsteps coming in from inside, so she waited. She hadn’t known where Moira was staying until a few days ago, she had been scrolling through the news and had stumbled on a small magazine’s headline. They had done an article on ‘The Mother of Business’, that was what they had called her. They had written an article on her life, her work, net worth, where she lived and a few quotes by her. Basic stuff. Small magazines wrote articles like that, on prominent people in the spotlight, to help boost their viewership and ratings. Apparently, according to the article, Moira was not living in the home she shared with her husband- which was the same one Luna knew since she was married to Justin- for a while because of some business she had to take care of, and she needed to be closer to the business. That was where Luna had gotten the address. She stood in front of the house now, it w
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Thirty minutes later, Luna stood in front of Moira’s door. She had pressed the buzzer, and she could hear footsteps coming in from inside, so she waited. She hadn’t known where Moira was staying until a few days ago, she had been scrolling through the news and had stumbled on a small magazine’s headline. They had done an article on ‘The Mother of Business’, that was what they had called her. They had written an article on her life, her work, net worth, where she lived and a few quotes by her. Basic stuff. Small magazines wrote articles like that, on prominent people in the spotlight, to help boost their viewership and ratings. Apparently, according to the article, Moira was not living in the home she shared with her husband- which was the same one Luna knew since she was married to Justin- for a while because of some business she had to take care of, and she needed to be closer to the business. That was where Luna had gotten the address. She stood in front of the house now, it w
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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
