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.

know," I gasped, knowing even as I said it how pathetic

"That a five-year-old child would lie about being in pain? That she

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

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kidney failure?" I stammered, the enormity of

worst fear.

six months without a

"But why didn't you-"

Olivia finished for me. "I did. Countless times.

busy

knife to my heart, cutting

her voice breaking slightly. "A

at the last minute, the

I asked, though I

"Victoria's daughter

was deemed more

saying hit me like a

to benefit Emma? Had I

own

by prioritizing Victoria's

said, shaking my head. "Victoria wouldn't do that. She couldn't

humor. "You still defend her,

trying to process the unthinkable - that my daughter was

to see her," I said suddenly,

didn't move. I felt her wrist tremble beneath my grip, my

best doctors," I promised desperately. "I'll

Lily couldn't be dead. She couldn't be. I had just built an entire amusement park

laughed, a hollow, chilling sound that sent shivers

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