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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

I turned to face

change the subject, but Ethan cut me

before turning back to

to say.

she's..."

Matriarch Evelyn frowned,

a physical blow. How could she not remember Lily? Her

concern. He pulled out his phone and

Bennett to come over," he murmured,

"Liv why aren't you.

gently, concern in

hand back, fighting to keep my tears at

I said softly, unable

she said

tightened. I couldn't do this. I

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