It was a pleasant morning when Luna woke up. She spent the remaining time with her family and had a happy breakfast with them.
Her dad drove her back to the orphanage. On the drive there, the father and the daughter talked about Luna’s life in the city until they reached their destination. Her father didn’t stop encouraging her, telling her to live her life happily before he left.
Luna stood there, waving to her dad as she watched her father’s car disappear from her eyes.
She let out a sigh and smiled before she entered the building and went to work.
The day was lively and joyful as always inside the orphanage. The kids and people inside were all like her family as well and she always felt good working with them.
She was glad that she was busy that day to keep her mind somewhat occupied because she couldn’t stop thinking about Alex. She already lost some sleep at night because of him and now that she was at work, she couldn’t believe that his face was still distracting her, until the end, she found herself waiting for Twilight to come.
The day was busy and yet she felt it dragging on. Indeed, it was true that time slowed down like a wounded turtle when waiting for something to come but flew fast like a bird when you weren’t.
Finally, twilight came. Luna stepped out of the building and looked at the mini children’s park in front. Her eyes were drawn to the empty swing and she slightly walked towards it. She sat on it and swung a little, just letting her body sway lightly.
Luna was thinking about Alex again. She had tried to call Alex last night but for some reason, he was out of reach. Kai was also the same. She couldn’t help but feel uneasy. The thoughts,’ What if he will not come back?’, ‘what if he will not appear before her anymore?’ flooded her mind but she couldn’t help it.
For the first time, Luna was extremely bothered by the fact that she really didn’t know anything about Alex. All she knew was related to the tycoon, Oliver Qinn.
Everyone knows that Oliver Qinn was a self-made man. She also read a magazine saying that he was an orphan. Knowing this made Luna feel confused when Alex told her that Oliver was his close kin. But then, she shrugged those thoughts away because, at the time, she thought that it was fine for Alex not to tell her anything.
But she was wrong. She wasn’t fine with it at all. She wanted to know more about him. Who were his family? Where were they? Was he living in that huge mansion for a long time now or did he decide to live in it lately?
Luna couldn’t help but feel scared. She was scared that one day Alex would just disappear like an enchanting Phantom she just met in her dreams.
Luna let out a big sigh and looked up to the sky.
She missed Alex so badly. It was only about 34 hours since she last saw him and she already felt like weeks had passed by. She wasn’t waiting for her time to end anymore. She was no longer thinking about the opportunities that life had taken from her. Her mind and heart were now thinking about a particular someone, and waiting for that someone to come back. She realized that her life had really changed.
At that moment, while Luna was lost in her thoughts, she suddenly felt a chill coming from behind her. She initially was excited because she thought that Alex was finally here but after a second, she realized that this wasn’t the same feeling she felt when Alex became cold towards her. This was different. It reeked with danger, malice, and bloodlust that caused Luna’s body to immediately react.
Her heart accelerated as she started to force herself to turn around. She knew that someone was behind her and she felt to herself that she was in grave danger. She could feel it. She tried to convince herself that it was just her imagination and that maybe, it was just a ghost – she was terrified of ghosts.
She swallowed and her mind prepared for her to scream, however, her throat suddenly dried up like a well in the desert. The menacing aura that someone behind her was emitting was too strong for her to handle and her body had surrendered before she realized it.
She gripped the swing’s chains as she tried to force her body to move. She knew she couldn’t run at this rate. And thus, she decided to turn and look behind her.
But before she could move her head, someone’s voice made her freeze in place.
“Don’t move, Luna.” The voice said and Luna’s eyes widened. Her eyes darted to the source of the voice which came from in front of her and what she saw shocked her.
“Alex…” she thought she had called out his name but no sound came out of her lips. Alex was there, standing a few steps away in front of her. When did he get here?
The man wasn’t looking at her, however. His eyes zeroed in on something or someone behind her. But seeing him felt like she just saw her moon in the darkness. Her frozen body began to melt and she knew that she would be able to move now.
Just as Luna was about to move to run toward him, Alex stopped her again.
“I told you not to move,” he commanded, his voice hard and. She saw his eyes burning with danger, locking her down in place.
Luna swallowed as she finally realized that her situation was more dangerous than she thought. She remembered Alex’s expression when he saved her that night in that bar but that expression paled in comparison to this. His face was so much calmer this time but there was a burning hell in his eyes. It was so frightening that Luna didn’t even realize that she had held her breath for a long time just looking at his eyes.
“Close your eyes, Luna,” were the next words she heard. The man didn’t even glance at her.” Now! And don’t open them until I say so.”
Luna was forced to close her eyes and then in the next second, a cold wind blew past her as noises began to ring in her ears.