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.

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

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

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had kidney failure?" I stammered, the enormity of my mistake

fear. "Yes," she

her six months

"But why didn't you-"

for me. "I did. Countless times. I called, I

always too busy with Victoria and Emma

a knife to my heart, cutting deeper because I knew they

continued, her voice breaking slightly. "A

was scheduled. But at the last minute, the kidney was

asked, though I

whispered. "Victoria's daughter needed

was deemed more urgent than

was saying hit me like

treatment to benefit Emma? Had I unknowingly

own

by prioritizing Victoria's

said, shaking my head. "Victoria wouldn't

devoid of humor. "You

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

need to see her," I said suddenly, grasping Olivia's

I felt her wrist tremble beneath my grip, my own

the best doctors," I

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,

sound that sent shivers

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