Reclaiming My Broken Luna (Astrid and Killian) novel Chapter 301

Astrid’s POV

Damien didn’t have to say a word for Vanessa to understand everything. She could feel the uneasiness of his wolf through the mate bond.

They had been together for years, and Vanessa could easily read him like an open book.

The truth was out, hanging heavily in the air between them, but it was the betrayal that made her heart break.

Tears that Vanessa had been trying so desperately to hold back finally fell freely from her eyes. Her voice trembled, but there was no mistaking the anger behind it.

“How could you do this to me?!” she yelled, her voice shaking with fury and pain. “You deceived me, Damien! You played me for a fool! Why didn’t you tell me the truth? Why didn’t you tell me that Giselle was the mother of your child?”

The crowd stood frozen in shock, the weight of the revelations suffocating the room.

People exchanged glances, wide-eyed and speechless, not knowing how to process everything they had just learned.

No one had expected to hear such devastating secrets today.

I felt the heaviness in my own chest as I looked at Vanessa. I couldn’t even begin to imagine the depth of her pain.

She had always hated Giselle, loathed her with every fiber of her being. And now, to find out that the child she had loved and cared for, the one she treated as her own, was the daughter of the woman she despised — and worse, a child she had with her own husband — was a betrayal beyond comprehension.

Damien and Giselle had made her look like a fool.

I swallowed hard, guilt creeping in. This wasn’t how I wanted things to unfold.

I never meant for Vanessa to be humiliated like this, especially not in front of everyone.

Vanessa, born into a Beta family, had always carried herself with pride. She had never been humiliated before nor experienced any kind of suffering.

She has always been sheltered under her father’s protection and now, the worst moment of her life was unraveling before the eyes of the public.

Damien stepped forward, his eyes filled with remorse. “Vanessa,” he whispered, his voice thick with emotion. “I’m so sorry... I never wanted this. I never meant to hurt you.”

But Vanessa backed away from him, her eyes filled with betrayal. “Don’t touch me!” she snapped, her voice cracking. “You don’t get to apologize now, Damien. Not after what you’ve done.”