MUFFLE: A Love Like Luna's (Mum's The Word Series Book 1) by Laikyn Meng

Author:Laikyn Meng [Meng, Laikyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Orange 9 Publishing Company LLC
Published: 2020-07-05T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

LUNA

“I didn’t do anything wrong, I followed my orders.” His voice cracks, and I turn to stare out the window. I reach out my hand to feel the sun’s rays encircle my palm.

“You’re alive, Asher. Two arms, two legs, lungs, kidneys, all major organs function. I don’t see you in a wheelchair or 6 feet under in a coffin.”

“Luna, you have a shit way of making me feel better.”

“No matter what, I say Asher. I could tell you that everybody should bend their heads for the justice you brought back home. That the honor of your name should live on forever. But what good are my words when you choose not to hear them.”

“Luna…I don’t know how to be okay. Some days I don’t understand who I am. What I am.” He sits down at the kitchen table and pulls me to him. His eyes pleading for mercy only he can give himself.

“Maybe it isn’t about who you are. Maybe it’s just today, and today you decide you want to live. That death doesn’t seem like a comforting idea.”

“I don’t feel like dying today.”

“Let that be enough. Tomorrow we will worry about tomorrow.”

“What would I do without you?”

“Live.” I try to shield my own eyes from the sadness that creeps. I struggle with answering my own purpose concerning life’s questions. “Do you think she knows how much I love her?”

“She knows.” Asher pulls me on his lap and kisses my cheek. “Do you think she knows how much I love her mother?” He whispers it in my ear like a secret.

I shake my head, hiding my face in his neck. I feel the gulp in his Adam apple as it bobs.

“I love you, Luna Lovett. I love your unwavering allegiance to make me a better man. What a wonderful mother and woman you are. I love who you are.” His words escaping as I captured his confession with the kiss of my lips.

Both of us abandoning ourselves with the neglect of self-love. Trying to find the right balance. Back to salvation, hoping we have the keys too.

~

It was my mistake thinking the storm was over. Asher is there festering over Lennox’s image at the grocery store. As if it interrupted out lives.

“He was a goddamn pedophile, Luna! For fuck’s sake! You were 14 fucking years old. He took advantage of you! Oh, my living hell if I ever see that man again—”

“You’ll do what exactly, Asher?”

“Murder him, knock him out, pick whichever one you can forgive me for after.”

“Let me get this straight, you are going to bring down Knox Krauss. Not only a father to 3 other children may I remind you, but to that little girl sitting quietly behind you.”

“He is not her father.”

“Who is then Ash? Is it you today, or will it be you tomorrow? Are you going to make a decision to be present or temporary?”

I don’t say a word because I can’t. My needs and wants never aligns, and it would be a criminal offense if the words leave my mouth.

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