I Was Only His Future LunaChapter 3

When I got home, I pulled out my suitcase.

Looking at all the things filling the house, I suddenly didn’t know where to begin.

Edward and I had indeed been deeply in love once.

He had wanted to hold on to every little reminder of our relationship.

We had kept the movie tickets from the films we’d watched together, and every handmade gift we’d ever made for each other had been carefully displayed in a glass cabinet.

When we first moved in, Edward had wrapped his arms around me from behind and sighed contentedly.

“Thank goodness we bought such a big house. There’s enough room to preserve every sweet memory we’ve made together.”

Looking around at everything in the house, I decided to call a cleaning service and have them remove it all.

The cleaners did a thorough job.

Just like that, the entire house was stripped of every trace of me.

I was packing the essentials into my suitcase when Edward sent me a message.

It came with a photo of an empty lunchbox.

“I didn’t mean what I said at lunchtime. I shouldn’t have spoken to you like that. I’m sorry.”

“Meet me at the restaurant at six. Let’s sit down and talk things through.”

A faint glimmer of hope suddenly stirred in my otherwise desolate heart.

A light rain began to fall.

Sitting in the back of a rideshare, I couldn’t help thinking that it seemed to rain so often in Silvermoon Pack.

By five thirty, I was already seated in our private dining room.

Every weekend, we used to sit here together, sharing meals and talking about everything on our minds.

The chef had gotten to know me quite well by now. He smiled warmly as he asked,

“You and the Alpha are about to have your mate ceremony, aren’t you? Congratulations in advance!”

I smiled but didn’t answer.

By seven, the rain outside had grown heavier. The werewolf beyond the window were becoming little more than blurry silhouettes, but Edward still hadn’t shown up.

The chef brought me a steak first.

“Have something to eat while you wait. Don’t go hungry.”

I shook my head and stepped outside to wait.

By nine, the rain had turned into a violent downpour, accompanied by flashes of lightning and crashes of thunder.

I was the only one left in the restaurant, surrounded by dishes that had long since gone cold.

Rain splashed against my clothes. With the darkness pressing in around me, the restaurant felt like an isolated island.

I called Edward seventeen times.

He didn’t answer a single one.

I couldn’t help imagining that something might have happened to him on his way here.

Maybe he’d gotten caught in the storm. Maybe he was stranded somewhere because of the rain.

Almost without thinking, I searched for Monica’s social media profile again.

It was almost as if she’d known I’d be looking.

She had posted a new update just fifteen minutes earlier.

“I wasn’t feeling well today, so the Alpha gave me the day off. He’s been taking care of me since two o’clock, and even helped feed my cat. The toughest-looking Alpha with the softest heart in the world~”

In the photo, Edward was gently stroking Monica’s kitten, his head lowered and his face full of tenderness.

The lunchbox sat open in the corner, and the bowl beside it was filled with the soup I’d carefully simmered for Edward.

Edward had liked the post and even left a comment.

“Just this once.”

Monica replied almost immediately.

“The kitten loved the soup you brought over. It finished every last drop.”

I stared at the blister on my ring finger, the one I’d burned while preparing the soup, and slowly lifted my head.

The rain was still falling.

I called Edward for the eighteenth time.

He still didn’t answer.

It seemed I wasn’t going anywhere tonight.

I sat motionless in the restaurant for the entire night.

By dawn, I’d booked a flight.

My destination was the Radiant Pack, three thousand kilometers away.