Alpha King Chases Abandoned Luna

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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.

didn't know," I gasped, knowing even as I said it

demanded. "That a five-year-old child would lie about being in pain? That she would pretend to cough up

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

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really had kidney failure?" I stammered,

fear. "Yes," she said simply. "Terminal kidney

six months without a

"But why didn't you-"

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

But you were always too busy with Victoria

my heart, cutting deeper

her voice breaking slightly. "A

minute, the kidney was redirected to

I asked, though I

Olivia whispered. "Victoria's daughter needed an

need was

implications of what she was saying hit me like a physical blow. Had

treatment to benefit Emma? Had I unknowingly

own

death by

wouldn't

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

that my daughter was gone, and I had played a part in her death through my neglect and blind trust

said suddenly, grasping Olivia's hand. "Which hospital

move. I felt her wrist tremble

the best hospital, the best doctors,"

broke as I 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 her. I had plans, so many

chilling sound that