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(Ethan's POV)

"I want to see Lily!" I demanded, my amber eyes fixed intensely on Olivia.

My voice carried the unmistakable authority of an Alpha King-I wasn't asking, but stating my intent. The command reverberated through the small confines of her cottage at Maple Grove,

my Alpha aura filling the space.

Olivia's slender frame went rigid. Her emerald eyes, once soft with love, hardened

into glittering stones as she stared back at me.

"Ethan Stone, how dare you ask to see Lily?" Her voice was ice, each word precisely delivered

like the strike of a blade.

I took a step forward, confused by her vehemence. "She's my daughter too, Olivia."

"Your daughter?" Olivia laughed, a hollow sound devoid of humor. "The same daughter you neglected for years? The same daughter whose birthday you missed to attend Emma's school

event?"

Her words stung, but I pressed on. "I have the right-"

"You have no rights!" she snapped, her voice rising. "You forfeited any rights to Lily when you

chose Victoria and Emma over us time and again."

my patience wearing thin. "This isn't about the past.

I couldn't quite place-rage mixed with

deeper, more painful.

deserve to see her," she whispered, her voice trembling. "Not after everything

done."

Why was she being so difficult?

trying to fix things. I've seen the security footage from the Moonlit

incident."

slightly, the first c***k in

Lily didn't push Emma,” I continued, my voice softening. “I was

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without investigating

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her chest rising and falling rapidly as she processed my

her," I explained, taking another cautious step forward. "I'll make it up to her-whatever she wants. A trip to that amusement park she always

anything."

expected relief, perhaps even gratitude that I was

she repeated, her voice barely audible. "With toys and trips?" Her mind seemed to drift somewhere else, her eyes unfocused as if seeing a

different place.

that day, Ethan?" she asked suddenly,

pool incident?"

to recall.

by the Moonlit Reflection Pool," Olivia said, her voice distant.

down her face after you

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