Li is horrified to see Luna bring Katie back with a serious head injury, a shocking surgery
The storm had passed, or so everyone believed. But Luna was only beginning her descent into chaos. The Forester family was shattered, the hospital wing stretched beyond capacity, and Luna stood amidst the wreckage—not with remorse or fear, but with a chilling satisfaction. Her plan had unfolded with surgical precision, every move calculated, every piece falling exactly where she intended. And she was far from finished.
Lee Finnegan wiped the sweat from her brow, her hands stained with blood as she stared at the surgical monitor in the trauma bay. Katie Logan lay unconscious, her head battered, her life hanging by a thread. The cause? Luna. A sudden, unprovoked attack that defied logic but made perfect sense when viewed from a distance. This was no random act of violence. It was a carefully orchestrated strike.
Across the sterile corridor, Sheila Carter’s eyes narrowed like a serpent ready to strike. “She’s yours,” Sheila hissed, voice low and venomous. “Your niece, your blood. Don’t pretend you don’t know what she’s become.”
Lee’s voice was clipped, barely containing her fury. “She’s not mine.”
“She’s been mirroring you,” Sheila shot back, the tension between them palpable. Two women, so different yet equally dangerous, locked eyes over Katie’s fragile body. The question that haunted them both was the same: who was truly pulling Luna’s strings?
Sheila believed it was Lee. After all, who else had the access, the proximity, and the cold, calculated mind to manipulate Luna from within? But Lee had her own suspicions. Sheila had always thrived in the shadows, sowing chaos and watching it bloom. What if this was just another of her long games, letting Luna spiral while pretending to clean up the mess?
The truth was buried deep, hidden beneath layers of deception. Financial records had surfaced on Chief Baker’s desk—offshore transactions, chartered flights under aliases, all linked to a blind trust in the Cayman Islands. The signature on the power of attorney was redacted, but forensic analysts were already digging. Someone was funding Luna. Someone was protecting her. Someone was orchestrating this nightmare.
Katie had been onto something. Hospital inventory discrepancies, unauthorized access logs, duplicated emergency wing badges—she had confided in Donna Logan just a week before the attack. Luna’s calm departure from the hospital, captured on security footage, only deepened the unease. She walked out like a guest leaving a dinner party, unbothered by the chaos she left behind.
Stephie demanded answers, but Finn had none. He and Luna had barely spoken since the cliff house incident weeks ago, when Luna had cornered him with a storm in her eyes. Now, he realized that storm had been a mask.
Brooke arrived at the hospital, distraught and suspicious. Luna’s erratic behavior had been escalating—veiled threats, subtle manipulations disguised as concern. The mask had slipped, revealing something far darker.
Inside the OR, Katie’s vitals flickered. Lee’s mind raced—not just about Katie, but about Luna’s presence where she shouldn’t be, the missing hospital-grade sedatives, the private lab requisitions signed under Lee’s credentials without her knowledge. She turned to Sheila, voice low. “If I find out you’re involved in this, I’ve done nothing.”
Sheila’s eyes were sharp, arms crossed. “For once, I’m trying to do the right thing. If you want to believe your niece went rogue on her own, fine. But don’t look at me when another body shows up.”
Sheila’s fear was unmistakable. If Sheila Carter was scared, something monstrous was unfolding.
Back at Forester Creations, Hope and Ridge faced their own nightmare. The business was under siege from rumors of internal corruption. Liam had gone silent, Wyatt’s attempts to help only stirred confusion. Then came the anonymous email—an encrypted video showing Luna weeks earlier in a penthouse, calm and controlled, instructing someone to clear Katie from the hospital wing by Monday. The voice on the other end was distorted, but the metadata linked the location to the same Cayman Islands trust.
Luna wasn’t alone.
Lee and Sheila were summoned to an emergency board meeting. The trustees demanded action. An internal task force was formed. Yet Luna remained silent, seen later at Il Jardino, sipping wine as if nothing had happened.
Bill Spencer confronted her, demanding answers. Luna smiled, leaning in. “You never really understood Katie. But I did.” That smile chilled Bill more than any threat.
Thomas Forester began his own investigation. Luna had been reaching out to Arya, a therapist tied to a controversial memory reconstruction program—the same program Sheila had once tried to use during her institutionalization. Medical records revealed Luna had undergone dissociative trauma therapy five years ago under the alias Camille.
Suddenly, everything made a sick kind of sense. The Luna they knew—the kind, reserved woman—was a fragment, a splintered soul. Camille, the alternate personality, was now in control, manipulated and weaponized.
Katie remained unconscious. Ridge was consumed by insecurity. Brooke wept. Lee felt the ground slipping beneath her feet. Was Luna ever truly her niece, or a time bomb planted years ago?
Then came the call: Donna Logan, found unconscious in her hotel room, a vial beside her bed. Police were unsure if it was an overdose or a warning. Sheila and Lee stood side by side, no longer accusing but understanding. Something bigger wore Luna’s face—and it wasn’t Luna anymore.
The silence in the hospital wing was heavier than the machines keeping Katie alive. Two Logan sisters attacked within days. Luna roamed free, untouchable.
Bill paced in his executive suite, grief and rage consuming him. Katie was the mother of his child; Donna had been his comfort. Now both clung to life because of a woman no one understood.
Brooke whispered, “We wait too long. Another one of us is next. She’s not done.”
Thomas sat alone, surrounded by untouched sketches. The Arya connection was undeniable. He found an old invoice for psychological evaluations signed by Arya Leven six years ago, tied to a clinic that had shut down mysteriously.
Luna was a product of conditioning, not just trauma. Someone had groomed her, split her, programmed her for this.
In a shuttered beach house off Malibu, Luna stood before a mirror, brushing her hair with eerie calm. Her reflection blinked and spoke softly, “They’re starting to remember.” Her hand hovered over a box behind the vanity drawer. Inside was a photo of a young girl, no older than ten, flanked by two figures and a man whose face was burned out. On the back, one word scrawled in angry ink: abandoned.
Back at the hospital, Donna awoke briefly, struggling to speak. She grabbed Brooke’s hand and whispered two words: “She knew.” Then her eyes closed.
Chief Baker burst in with security footage from Donna’s hotel. Luna had entered at 2:47 a.m.—but she wasn’t alone. A man in a black coat, mid-40s, with a faint scar across his cheek, no name, no match in any database.
Lee recognized him immediately. “Rainard.”
She nearly collapsed. Sheila caught her instinctively, then remembered who she was touching.
Rainard Young, a former neurosurgeon turned experimental psychologist, disbarred in Singapore, vanished in Switzerland, last seen in LA five years ago when he briefly consulted at University Hospital. Now, he was back—with Luna.
“That’s who helped me escape Genoa,” Sheila said sharply. “He disappeared with half the patient files. I didn’t know he found her.”
Lee’s lips pressed into a pale line. “He didn’t find her. I sent her to him.”
The room fell silent.
After Luna’s violent breakdown as a teenager, slipping between personalities, Lee had sought extreme help. Rainard promised a cure. What he delivered was something else—regression therapy, identity reinforcement, and eventually splitting. “He said he could isolate the rage,” Lee whispered. “Keep her real self intact.”
“You never do,” Sheila snapped. “And now someone else is paying the price.”
Hope and Stephie set aside their feud to focus on Luna’s next move. Hope uncovered a pattern—not just personal attacks, but symbolic ones. Katie, the investigator. Donna, the heart. The next target: Ridge, the strategist.
Ridge poured over campaign materials, unaware of the shadow behind him. Luna didn’t strike. She watched. Her plan wasn’t to kill this time—it was to destroy from within.
The next morning, Ridge received a package: a Forester Originals design sketchbook, one of his own, long thought lost, smeared with red paint. Inside, a photo of Thomas holding baby Douglas. On the back: “He knows everything.”
Thomas met Ridge that night, laying it all out—Rainard, the memory implants, the personality fragmentation. Luna wasn’t fully Luna anymore. Camille was dominant, conditioned to see the Foresters as destroyers of her family.
“You wanted to be her mentor,” Thomas said. “But someone taught her you were the enemy.”
Ridge slammed his fist on the table. “Who would do this to a child?”
Before Thomas could answer, another file arrived—a video from an anonymous source. Luna alone in a warehouse, reading aloud: “The Foresters took everything from us. He stole the name. She let him. They buried the truth.” Rainard’s voice followed: “Let the fracture take hold. Let Camille rise.”
This was no mere manipulation. It was weaponization.
The Foresters weren’t just targeted—they were being dismantled, person by person, memory by memory.
Back at the hospital, Katie’s brain scans lit up. She was waking, slowly, painfully. Her eyes fluttered open, and she squeezed Lee’s hand.
“The journal,” she murmured.
Lee froze. The journal—handwritten, delicate, hidden long ago—contained everything. Not just Luna’s mother’s descent into madness, but the truth of who Camille really was and what had been done to her.
The chase was no longer about stopping Luna. It was about finding the journal before she used it to end everything.
And somewhere, deep in the fractured shadows of Luna’s mind, Camille smiled.
