30 Days to Freedom: Abandoned Luna is Secret Shadow King novel Chapter 104

Chapter 104: Sir, I Saw Luna

Chapter 104: Sir, I Saw Luna

(Seraphina’s POV)

Theodore released his grip like he’d been burned. His face went completely white.

“I’m sorry, I mistook you for someone else.”

The woman turned around fully. She had kind eyes and a gentle smile.

“It’s alright,” she said softly. “Happens to everyone.”

I caught up to Theodore, breathing hard from rushing across the shop. His hands were shaking.

“Theodore? Are you okay?”

He wouldn’t look at me. His jaw was clenched so tight I thought it might break.

“Seraphina, I’m not in a good mood today. I won’t be joining you for shopping.”

His voice was flat. Dead. Like all the life had been sucked out of him.

“But we just got here-”

“I need to go.”

He pushed past me, heading for the door. I watched him walk away, his shoulders hunched like he was carrying the weight of the world.

My heart ached for him. What kind of she–wolf would abandon such a devoted Alpha? What kind of monster would leave

him this broken?

I stood there for a moment, not knowing what to do. The other customers were staring. The clerk looked uncomfortable.

Finally, I walked back to the register. “What was my friend looking at?”

The clerk pointed toward the fitting rooms. “The fan in the hand of the lady who is trying on clothes.”

I turned to look. A woman was walking out of the fitting room, and my breath caught.

She was stunning. Absolutely breathtaking.

She wore a white traditional robe that seemed to glow against her pale skin. Her long, wavy hair was pinned up with a jade hairpin. Every movement was graceful, elegant.

She was holding the same embroidered fan Theodore had been examining.

“How does it look?” she asked the young she–wolf beside her.

The girl’s eyes went wide. “So beautiful! Queen!”

“Shh.” The woman smiled. “Just call me Liv when we’re out.”

Her voice was soft but commanding. There was power in it. Authority.

“Is this suitable for today’s visit?”

“Perfect, absolutely perfect,” the girl assured her.

I stared at them, feeling strange. This woman… there was something familiar about her.

The clerk was waiting for my answer about the fan. I was still annoyed that Theodore had been shopping for his ex–mate.

“No need,” I said. “It suits her perfectly.”

Let this beautiful stranger have it. She deserved it more than some heartless she–wolf who’d abandoned her family.

As I left the shop, that nagging feeling got stronger. Where had I seen her before?

Was it in Stonehaven City? When I’d first met Theodore?

Back at the Kane family home, I couldn’t shake my mood. I flopped onto the couch in the living room.

“Who’s upset our great Miss Seraphina?”

I looked up. Cynthia Mooncrest was walking out of the study, wearing a flowing white dress. Her usual bright smile was in place.

“It couldn’t be that new Alpha from Stonehaven City, could it?”

I groaned. “His heart is completely devoted to that mate of his. The one who severed their bond and abandoned him and their pup.”

“That’s rough.”

“He didn’t even spare me a glance, Cynthia. Not once.”

Cynthia sat down beside me. “Maybe you need to show him what he’s missing. Be patient.”

I rolled my eyes. “Look at you giving relationship advice. You’ve been chasing after my brother for years, and isn’t he still mating another she–wolf?”

The words left my mouth before I could stop them.

Cynthia went completely still. The color drained from her face.

An orange slipped from her palm and rolled across the floor.

“He’s… mating?” she whispered.

Her voice was so small. So broken.

“Oh god, Cynthia, I’m sorry. I thought you knew-”

“When?” Her hands were trembling.

“Tonight. She’s visiting our parents this evening. That’s why I came home early.“.

Cynthia stood up slowly. She looked like she might collapse.

“I… I need some air.”

She walked toward the garden doors like she was in a trance.

I felt terrible. I’d been so wrapped up in my own problems that I’d forgotten how much she loved Matthew.

But maybe this was for the best. Maybe now she’d finally move on.

(Third–person’s POV)

As Seraphina went upstairs to help her mother choose a gift, Cynthia remained frozen in the living room.

The man she’d loved for years was marking someone else. Tonight.

She’d never even gotten to meet his parents properly. Never been welcomed into his family.

But this stranger, this nobody, was getting everything Cynthia had dreamed of.

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Her hands clenched into fists. Her wolf snarled inside her chest.

No. This wouldn’t happen. Couldn’t happen.

Matthew Kane belonged to her. He always had.

Meanwhile, across the city, Olivia and Selena returned to their hotel suite.

Olivia had spent hours working on the security system, her fingers flying across the keyboard. The case was nearly

solved.

Now she needed to prepare for the evening.

She bathed carefully, letting the hot water ease the tension in her shoulders. Tonight was important. She was meeting Matthew’s parents for the first time.

She slipped into the ceremonial robe she’d bought, adjusting the jade hairpin in her hair.

“You look perfect,” Selena said from the doorway.

“I hope so.”

Olivia picked up the wrapped gift she’d chosen–a rare first edition book of poetry. Something thoughtful but not too personal.

As she stepped into the hallway, the door to the adjacent room opened.

A room service cart rolled out. The food on it was completely untouched.

(Theodore’s POV)

I lay on the hotel bed, my body wracked with phantom sensations from our dying mate bond.

Every nerve ending screamed. Every breath was agony.

I could almost feel her arms around me. Her warmth against my back. Her scent filling my lungs.

But it was all in my head. All fake.

I reached for the bottle of moonlight herb pills on the nightstand. They were the only thing that could give me peace. The only way to stop the constant pull toward her.

As I lifted a handful to my mouth, a soft voice drifted through the door.

“Thank you.”

My eyes snapped open. My heart stopped.

That voice. I knew that voice better than my own.

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