I Came Back to His Wedding to My Stand-In Chapter 05

I Came Back to His Wedding to My Stand-In Chapter 05

The villa was full of signs of a struggle.

There was blood on the floor that had not yet been cleaned.

The men Damon had sent to guard me were gone.

But there was no trace of me anywhere.

He fumbled for his phone.

“James, check the villa’s security footage.”

“And pull Elowen’s last phone location data. Every ping, every route, everything.”

“Hurry.”

Panic tore through him.

The scene dragged him back to the day we parted three years ago.

It had also been a quiet afternoon.

I had suddenly told him I was a world-hopper and that the System was recalling me.

He was so desperate that he coughed blood.

He held me tightly, as if his arms could stop me from disappearing.

But the extraction portal appeared above me.

And just like that, I vanished silently from his embrace.

The terrifying memory slammed into him.

He clutched his chest and prayed to any power that might listen.

“Please.”

“Do not take Elowen away.”

“Do not let her leave me again.”

Regret swallowed him whole.

Why had he rejected my calls?

Why had he not rushed back the moment I begged him?

Because he thought I had returned without the System.

Because he believed I was trapped in his world for good.

So he had acted without fear.

So he had turned cruel.

When Luna came after him, she found him sitting on the floor, his eyes empty.

“Damon, what happened?”

“Don’t scare me.”

Damon slowly came back to himself.

Then he shoved her away.

“It is all your fault.”

“Because of you, Elowen left me again.”

“Because of you, I hurt her again and again.”

Luna stared at him in disbelief.

As if he had not been the one to protect her and keep her by his side all these

But then she thought of the child in her belly and took a deep breath.

“Damon, think carefully.”

“Is this really my fault?”

years.

“If Elowen had not been so cruel and tried to send me and our child to Veridia, would you have

gotten angry with her?”

“She is using her disappearance to make you feel guilty.”

“She abandoned you once three years ago.”

“Now she is doing the same thing again.”

Seeing Damon’s expression waver, Luna clutched her stomach and began to moan.

“Damon, my stomach hurts.”

“Maybe Elowen scared me too badly.”

“Our baby… it hurts.”

Damon snapped back to his senses.

He quickly picked her up and drove her to the hospital.

Only after the doctor said nothing was wrong did he finally breathe again.

Just then, James called.

Luna’s heart jumped into her throat.

James’s voice came through the line.

“Mr. Voss, we checked the villa’s security footage, but someone deleted it. There is nothing left.”

Damon exploded in fury.

Luna quietly exhaled in relief.

But the next second, James continued.

“However, we checked city surveillance and pulled Ms. Hale’s routes from the past few days.”

“I already sent them to your phone.”