Episode 3

Luna Valerian

I'm falling into the void waiting for the impact but it never comes, I feel like I'm still floating and I decide to open my eyes but I can't see anything, I'm submerged in an immense darkness but I don't feel bad.

I am calm and I have no pain, my heart is serene, although I remember all the hell I have lived in the last 10 years.

I married that bastard when I was 20 years old and Kratos was 28, although we got engaged when I turned 18.

My 2 years of engagement were almost at a distance and adding to his coldness towards me, I can say that it was not only the kilometers that separated us, but I was always a naive and romantic dreamer.

I always believed that Carolyn Swang was his dear cousin until the first night of my marriage, that night I realized that I had been an idiot but even so I loved him madly and in a sick way.

I want revenge, I long for it and I demand it, I never hurt anyone, what's more, I wouldn't even kill a fly because I feel sorry for them and yet I met ruthless people who didn't hesitate for a second to destroy me, humiliate me and despise me.

As I immerse myself in memories that no longer hurt but disturb me I see a small light that shines with the elegance of a firefly.

He he he, it's very funny, it's a bit shy, it doesn't come too close to me but I know it likes me, it's small but it changes colors as it gets closer to me, it's beautiful and after wandering around me it lands directly on my forehead with a quick movement and I feel myself falling at full speed in the middle of the darkness.

It seems that this small light weighs tons since the speed of my fall increases more and more, I feel the vertigo that runs through my back.

But in the least expected moment I feel the dry blow and it makes me gasp, Air?

I open my eyes and see the turquoise ceiling with flashes of purple of various colors scattered like a constellation, it reminds me of my room in Sun City in my parents' house.

My eyes fill with tears as I remember that time of happiness, my parents, my house, life was so simple and happy.

I raise my hand to wipe my left cheek and I am surprised to feel nothing, and I mean I only feel smooth, healthy skin where are my scars? I can't feel the folds of my skin stretched by the burn, I don't know what's going on? Could this be being in the afterlife?

I get up quickly feeling the ground beneath me making me wobble a bit which gives me a while to look around, and yes! It's my room in my parents' house, my bed, my desk, my shelf of collectible porcelain dolls...

For heaven's sake! Is this what I'm thinking? It can't be, I can't be that lucky, I run to the bathroom and turn on the light because it's not very clear, it seems to be six in the evening or morning and nothing is very clear.

I look in the mirror and almost scream my head off.

My face is glowing, my face, my eye is intact, my countenance is lush and healthy like it was 10 years ago, when I didn't voluntarily submerge myself in the torture that was my life.

There are no dark circles, no withered skin, the damaged and cut hair as if a gardener had attacked me is long as I always liked to have it.

I'm back, and it's clear that I'm not married yet, I'm at my parents' house, by the diamond ring on my finger I'm already engaged, but that doesn't matter I have another chance to protect myself from that demon and his whore.

First I have to see my parents, they must be around here, I want to see them after I was the one who ended my Clan, I have many things to make amends for and the important thing is them, my loved ones who suffered the unspeakable because of my whim, because of my stubbornness.

I run out of my room to my parents' room, I open the door calmly and there they are, sleeping peacefully as if the world did not have the evil that lurks, they are calm and happy, not suspecting that it would be their beloved daughter who would take away all the most precious from their lives.

I approach Mom and hesitate to touch her cheek, I'm afraid to touch her and she'll disappear, that this is just an illusion.

She wakes up before anything else, she has always been a light sleeper and looks at me surprised to see my face with a shower of tears

My girl what's wrong?_ she asks me frowning and I throw myself into her arms like a child who has been terribly wronged.

Mom I had a nightmare where I lost you and Dad, you weren't there to help me anymore! _ I lied to justify my strange behavior, while I buried my face in her chest inhaling her smell, that motherly smell that tells you that everything is going to be okay, that there is nothing she can't fix.

Oh honey it's because you're going to live in another city, Calm down my girl, we'll be settling in Garden City in a year at the latest. My heart couldn't bear to live far from you, stop crying now, you're not a little girl anymore, you're getting married in a week _ Mom ran her hand through my hair comforting me while I cried my eyes out.

What's going on sweetie why are you crying?_ Dad woke up and gave me one of those looks of {I love you very much but don't make a scene}, I am his spoiled little girl, he gives me everything I want and that's how my stupid and irrational actions left him bankrupt and behind bars.

I held on to my father's strong arm, he is a tall and very handsome man, I'm not saying that because he's my father, my friends and the mothers' club at school and college say so.

Daddy, can we talk about our company's cooperation with the Yenkos later? Besides I would like to add some clauses to the marriage contract, I haven't seen it yet _ I look at my father with doe-eyed eyes so that he would let me see how I can break my marriage, avoid it, cancel it or as a last resort have a card up my sleeve.

Of course sweetie, I'm glad you're interested in what's going on in the company and your marriage and don't leave everything in the hands of your fiance _ the light in my father's eyes encouraged me to continue, I saw him proud that he didn't let himself be blinded by my love for that demon.

I'll make breakfast! _ I said shouting as it was obvious that it was early and I wanted to attend to them as they deserved, like the attentive and loving parents they were.

I run out of my parents' room straight to the kitchen, I looked like a crazy woman through the halls, when I get to the kitchen my sweet nanny Lila was getting ready to cook.

Nooooo... I'll make breakfast you rest _ my poor nanny Lila looks at me as if I had grown another head.

Girl you don't know how to cook and you've never cooked in your life _ she was right, I never cooked for anyone except when I got married I learned to cook to please the bastard Yenko.

But nothing went well, he never wanted to try my food, at home he would throw it on the floor and say it was horrible, I would take him lunch at his office at lunchtime and more than once I would catch him having sex with one of the secretaries from other departments and that would end in fights or punishments for me.

Don't worry nanny I can cook I swear, they won't die poisoned you'll see _ I wink at her and start taking out the pans and vegetables.

After a delicious breakfast that everyone praises me for and a lovely family chat, I got together with my father and we went over all the aspects in detail, and I wanted to die.

There was no way to cancel the marriage, it was a trap very well made by the Yenkos, but there were things I could fix to get out of the marital sphere as quickly as possible.

Now I have to organize the protection of my assets, my Clan, my family and obviously myself.

I have to make 5 important calls that will help me get through the first terrible event of the wedding night.

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