Chapter 157 Manipulate your decision

When they reached the mansion, they found that Mrs Cullen was sleeping and Abigail left to call her. A few moments later, they came back together and the moment Rebecca's eyes fell on Ciara, a wide grin spread on her face. She embraced her tightly as she asked," You finally decided to come and see me? How are you? How are you feeling?" When they parted, she said," I was to come sooner or later. It's just that I had a number of things to work on. How are you?"

"I'm fine. Is Vikram treating you well?" She nodded before saying," Yes. He's been nice."

Rebecca glanced at Luna and said," You also decided to come? What a surprise? I thought you would never come back here." "And why is that Mrs Cullen?" Luna asked. "Well, since you reunited with your family I thought that there's nothing you would want from us," she said. "Of course not. This is my family too," she said. They spent sometime with her but most of the time, her concentration was on Ciara and it made Luna wonder whether she would ever be treated like that.

They waited for Mr Cullen to come back home and when he didn't, they decided to leave. As they were leaving, Rebecca asked Luna to stay behind a little bit. "I wanted to thank you for keeping our secret. I honestly didn't expect you to keep quiet about it," she said. She meant the time when Graham had gotten an accident and Luna came to inform him about the pregnancy. She was honestly surprised that she had kept it until now. "You don't need to thank me. I see no reason to bring it back because it won't change anything," she replied and Rebecca nodded in affirmation.

When silence came in between them, Rebecca said," I may not be so fond of you but I don't hate you. At least not anymore." Luna understood what she meant and said," I'm glad to hear that. And I will be waiting for the time when you will come to like me." With that, she left for home. She also wished to get along and be liked by her mother in law.

At night, Luna was with her mother and Grandma in her room as she told them about her childhood. They always came to her room every night asking her to narrate to them about how she grew up, wanting to know everything even the slightest details. Luna would skip some sensitive parts like when she fell sick with no one to help, when she missed food and others because every time she spoke about them, her mother would become sad and sometimes cry.

After the long conversation, both women left the room to let her rest. She then wondered why Graham hadn't called today since he would call every night to wish her a good night's sleep and she decided to check her phone. She gasped the moment she realized that he had called her five times but it was in silent mode.

Calling him back, he picked up on the first ring," It seems the Howells replaced my time." "Of course not. It was in silent mode. I was badly waiting for your call." "Okay, how has been your day?" he asked. "It's been busy. I called you today but your phone was off," she said. "Yeah. I switched it off because I was so busy today. What made your day busy?" he asked.

"Oh, Abigail and I went out and we were later joined by Ciara." "That's good. I heard you visited home," he said. "Yes, we went there. We had gone to visit your Mom. She...thanked me for not disclosing about the three year incident."

"That shouldn't manipulate your decision. As I said, if you feel like telling the family about it then we can go ahead," he said. "As I also said, I prefer to leave it. What's the point? Everything is in the past and I don't want to look there anymore."

Two and a half months later....

Luna was in office when she received a call from Vikram," Hey Luna, how are you?" he asked as soon as she picked up and Luna sensed excitement in his voice. "I'm okay. How are you?" "So happy. Ciara has just given birth to a bouncing baby boy," he said.

"Wow, congratulations!! When did it start?!!"

"I think it was around five in the morning when it started and she has just given birth now. I called to inform you, I will hung up now."

He called her because he had noticed that in these past months, they had become somehow close. The three of them often went to hang out together. As soon as the call ended, Abigail's call went through and on picking, she was delivering the same news. The two agreed to meet and buy some gifts before going to the hospital to see her.