Chapter 109: The Father’s Return
The weight of Cassian’s final words hung heavily in the air, like a storm cloud waiting to break. Luna stood frozen, her heart pounding in her chest as she tried to process what he had just said. The revelation that her father was returning, that he had always been watching from the shadows, threatened to shatter the fragile peace she had just begun to hold onto.
Her father.
The man she had heard so much about in fragmented whispers over the years—never a comforting word, but always fear, always tales of his cruelty and power. He had abandoned her mother when Luna was just a child, leaving her with a fractured history and a deep, gnawing absence. She had always told herself that she didn’t care, that he wasn’t worth thinking about. But now, those years o
