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

about? Picking someone up

me. I turned to face her,

subject, but Ethan cut me off. "Lily," he said, looking at

at him before turning back to Matriarch Evelyn, my mind

to say.

Lily, she's..." I

Lily?" Matriarch Evelyn frowned, her brow furrowing

question hit me like a physical blow. How could she not remember Lily? Her

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

Dr. Bennett to come over," he murmured, his voice

"Liv why aren't you.

hand gently, concern in

squeezed her hand back, fighting

to me," I said softly, unable to bring myself

her," she

this. I couldn't explain that