Alpha King Chases Abandoned Luna

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She'd handed the phone back to me, her expression carefully composed despite the tears. I'd stepped into the

tepped into th hallway, my rage barely contained

"How dare you?" I'd hissed into the phone. "Your daughter is dying, and you can't spare even ten minutes?" Ethan's voice had been cold, dismissive. "Stop with these games, Olivia. I know Lily isn't really sick. You're just trying to manipulate me away from Victoria and Emma."

"She's hooked up to dialysis machines! She needs a kidney transplant! How can you possibly think I'm making this up?"

she were truly ill Dr. Fletcher would have informed me he'd replied with infuriating confidence. I'm done with your lies"

He'd hung up, leaving me shaking with fury and grief.

When I'd returned to Lily's room, I'd found her curled on her side, quietly sobbing into her pillow She'd quickly wiped her eyes when she saw me

"It's okay, Mommy, she'd said, trying to smile. "Daddy's just busy. He'll come next time.

Lily had died three weeks later, still waiting

watched Ethan fuss over Emma's minor wound with

burning sensation, but the Moonberry Fever Reducer should take care of that Change the dressing twice daily and apply this salve.

her voice trembling with perfectly

protectively around her shoulders. "Let's get you settled on the couch, princess. You can watch your favorite show

to leave before I said something I couldn't take back. As I moved toward the door, Victoria's voice stopped

"You"

her face flushed with rage. Her perfectly manicured finger

this attack!" Victoria's voice shook with barely contained fury. "You've always been jealous of

calmly, too emotionally exhausted for another dramatic confrontation. "And what evidence

present when the plagiarism was mentioned at Amber Crest Restaurant. Only you

sardonic smile. “Or perhaps you arranged this little performance yourself? It's quite convenient how this 'attacker appeared just when I was finally getting through to Ethan about Lily"

on my own child!" At the mention of

said, my voice low and