Alpha King Chases Abandoned Luna

Chapter 168

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Ethan's amber eyes were wide with shock and denial. "No," he whispered. "No, that can't be

right. The servants said-"

"The servants said what you wanted to hear," I cut in. "That I was making it up. That I was

using Lily to get your attention."

I laughed bitterly. "As if I would ever use our daughter that way."

(Ethan's POV)

Her words triggered a flood of memories I had dismissed as unimportant. Conversations I had

ignored, pleas I had rejected.

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I remembered the servants' accusations - that Olivia was deliberately making Lily sick to get my attention. Accusations I had readily believed, blinded by my

prejudice and my concern for

Emma.

I remembered Lily's timid phone call, her small voice filled with pain: "Daddy, can you come be

with Lily? Lily is sick, and the treatment hurts..."

I had dismissed her plea, believing it to be another manipulative tactic from my mate. "Don't be like your mother, full of lies," I had told her coldly before hanging up.

The memory of my cruelty made me physically ill. I bent forward, retching, though nothing

came up but bitter bile.

even as I said it how pathetic it sounded. "I

"That a five-year-old child would lie about being in pain? That she would pretend to cough up blood just to get your

no answer. There was no justification for what I had done - or rather,

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stammered, the enormity of my mistake

stare confirmed my worst fear. "Yes," she

doctors gave her six months

"But why didn't you-"

times.

were always too busy with Victoria and

a knife to my heart,

Olivia continued, her voice breaking slightly.

last minute, the kidney was

asked, though I already suspected

"Victoria's daughter needed

need was

she was saying hit me like a physical blow. Had

treatment to benefit Emma? Had I unknowingly

own

by prioritizing

wouldn't do that. She couldn't be that

hollow, devoid of humor. "You still defend her, even now? After

unthinkable - that my daughter was gone, and I had played a part in her death through my

suddenly, grasping Olivia's hand. "Which hospital is Lily

felt her wrist tremble beneath my

the best hospital, the best

clung to the last shreds of denial. Lily couldn't be dead. She couldn't be. I had just built an entire amusement park for

hollow, chilling sound that sent shivers down

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