Alpha King Chases Abandoned Luna

Chapter 1

(Olivia's POV)

The beeping of the hospital monitors had become the soundtrack to our lives. My daughter Lily lay in the sterile bed, her small frame dwarfed by the medical equipment surrounding her. Kidney failure. Those two words had shattered our world.

"Mommy," Lily whispered, her voice barely audible over the machines. "Do you think Daddy will come tomorrow?"

I brushed her thin hair back from her forehead. "Of course, sweetheart. It's your birthday."

"And we'll go to the Moonlight Fair? All three of us?" Hope flickered in her emerald eyes-eyes just like mine.

"Yes, Lily. I already asked him, and he promised." I forced a smile, ignoring the doubt gnawing at my heart.

Lily's face lit up with a joy I hadn't seen in months. "Really? Daddy promised?"

I nodded, squeezing her fragile hand. The doctors had given her days, maybe hours. This birthday might be her last, and her only wish was to spend it with her father.

The next morning, I dressed Lily in her warmest clothes. The weather had turned unexpectedly cold, but nothing would stop us. We waited at the Moonlight Fair entrance, the colorful lights and cheerful music a stark contrast to the heaviness in my chest.

One hour passed. Then two.

"He's just running late from work, right Mommy?" Lily asked, her lips turning slightly blue despite the heavy coat.

"I'm sure he is, sweetheart." I dialed Ethan's number for the twentieth time. Straight to voicemail.

Three hours. Lily refused to sit in the wheelchair I'd brought, insisting on standing so her father would see her right away.

"Maybe he forgot," she whispered, her voice breaking. "Maybe he's with Emma again."

My heart cracked at her words. "Let me try once more."

This time, someone answered. Not Ethan, but his assistant.

King is unavailable. He's at Disney with Ms. Frost and her daughter for

is his daughter's birthday. Lily

He left

small body

in my arms. "Someone help

in their eyes what I refused

whispered, her eyes fluttering open one last time. "Why does Daddy love Emma more than me? Is

lighting up with a video someone had sent her. Ethan, Victoria, and Emma at Disney. Ethan was carrying Emma on his shoulders, all of them

wanted him to love me,"

she was gone, her final breath a question I couldn't

refused to accept. My daughter was dead. And her father wasn't even there to say goodbye. The funeral

staff member asked gently. "Surely the Alpha King..." "He doesn't

Clip I'd designed for her birthday-tiny healing crystals embedded in

help you get better," I whispered, carefully placing it in her hair. "I'm so

"The Alpha King should be informed

Frost's birthday with the same party he

widened in shock, but he nodded respectfully.

began, I stood alone, watching flames consume the

Urn to my chest, Lily's ashes still

on the park's exterior wall flashed with

expense for young Emma Frost's birthday celebration today," the announcer's cheerful voice boomed. "Sources say

screen filled with images of Ethan carrying Emma on his shoulders, both laughing. Victoria stood beside them, her hand possessively on Ethan's arm. Victoria is Ethan's childhood sweetheart. But she left the pack five years ago. After she left the pack, she

she returned to the pack with Emma. My life

was hard and pitiful for Victoria to raise a child alone, so he always went to take care of them. He treated Emma even better

for, the one Ethan had refused to

urn away from the screen, shielding it as if Lily could still see. "Lily, don't

I returned. Our wing of the massive estate felt empty without Lily's presence. I carried