Alpha King Chases Abandoned Luna

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I froze mid-step, my heart seizing in my chest. Had I heard him correctly?

"Where's Lily?" Ethan repeated, his tone casual as if asking about the weather. “I'll go pick her up so she can

have dinner with Grandmother."

My lungs refused to work. The hallway seemed to tilt beneath my feet. How could he mention our daughter so casually? As if she were still alive? As if he hadn't missed her funeral?

"Olivia Winters, stop acting crazy," Ethan warned, his amber eyes narrowing at my silence.

I could read the message in his gaze. He didn't want me to bring up Lily's death again. He still refused to

believe she was gone.

My eyes darkened with fury. I hadn't planned to say anything about her death. My concern was for Matriarch Evelyn. She had loved Lily fiercely, had been the only one besides me to visit her regularly during her illness. Could the elderly woman bear the news of her death? Would it break her already fragile health?

I opened my mouth to respond when Matriarch Evelyn's voice came from the staircase

are you talking about? Picking someone up

seized me. I turned to face her, forcing a smile as

to change the subject, but Ethan cut me off. "Lily," he

at him before turning back to Matriarch

to say.

she's..."

frowned,

hit me like a physical blow. How could she

shifted from annoyance to concern. He pulled out his phone and quickly

over," he murmured, his voice suddenly

"Liv why aren't you.

gently, concern

back, fighting to keep

someone very important to me," I said softly,

she said decisively.

couldn't do this. I couldn't explain that Lily was