Alpha King Chases Abandoned Luna

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My eyes fluttered open, a splitting headache pounding against my skull. The sedative hadn't

kept me under for long. I found myself lying on the large bed in the master bedroom of

Imperial Gardens, the familiar ceiling coming into focus above me.

Memories of the previous night crashed through my mind like violent waves. Victoria at Lily's

grave. The black dog blood splashing across my daughter's tombstone. The ancient

talismans meant to curse my baby's spirit.

White-hot hatred surged through my veins. I was about to sit up when Ethan's voice drifted in from the balcony.

"Don't be afraid," he said softly into his phone. "Last night was an accident. It won't happen

again."

My body froze. I knew exactly who he was talking to.

"I've arranged for bodyguards to protect you," he continued, his voice gentle in a way it never was with me anymore. "She won't have a chance to hurt you and Emma again."

His voice dropped lower, and I couldn't make out his next words. But I'd heard enough.

Bodyguards. For Victoria. The woman who had killed my daughter and desecrated her grave.

A crushing sense of powerlessness washed over me. The boulder pressing on my heart grew heavier, almost suffocating me. I couldn't touch Victoria now. I couldn't make her pay for what

she'd done to Lily.

Tears welled up in my eyes and silently slid down my cheeks. I was truly helpless against

Victoria Frost.

I heard Ethan end his call and step back into the bedroom. Just as his footsteps approached

the bed, his phone rang again.

"Maxwell," he answered. "What is it?"

"Alpha King, it's all arranged," Maxwell Chen's voice came through clearly. "Luna

Winters will be very touched when she sees it."

"Good," Ethan replied, his tone softening slightly.

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my back to him, pretending to be asleep. Through barely-open

should understand that my compensation to Lily isn't just empty words," he

for Lily's sake

ended the call and left the room without another

planning? Whatever it was, it wouldn't

the woman who had stolen her chance at life. My phone rang, startling me from my thoughts. I reached for it

movements sluggish.

through the speaker. "Do you have time to

today?"

Winters-no relation, despite

emotional

have finished your medication yesterday," she

missed your scheduled appointment,

eyes, suddenly remembering. Without those pills, my emotions

Grief was

without it, patients prone to negative emotions could spiral dangerously out of

voice hoarse.

body felt heavy, as if gravity had doubled overnight. I washed quickly, changed my clothes, and drove to the

Winters examined me with concern in her eyes. "You're not in

the prescription she handed me.

me

functioning.

an outlet for venting," she

them more.

words echoed in my mind. Friends? Family? Who

she continued. "You're like a tightly

If you don't relax,

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understand," I murmured, taking the

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returning home, I drove to the Silvercrest Pack Medical Den. There was only

my adoptive mother had passed away years ago. My only true friend, James Knight, was in closed training for an upcoming race. I

his own daughter. If he knew Victoria had

her. And if he harmed Victoria, Ethan would destroy him.

next year's championship;

was James's dream. I couldn't

merely a pretense. We weren't

such confidences.

alone. The remorse for failing Lily, the burning