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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.

knowing even as I

child would lie about being in pain? That she would pretend

was no justification for what I

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

cold stare confirmed my worst fear. "Yes," she said simply.

her six months without

"But why didn't you-"

did. Countless times. I called, I texted, I

always too busy with Victoria

knife to my heart, cutting

her voice breaking slightly. "A perfect match.

last minute, the kidney was redirected to another

I asked, though I

"Victoria's daughter

was

what she was saying hit me like a physical

Lily's treatment to benefit Emma? Had I

own

death by

wouldn't do

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

was reeling, trying to process the unthinkable - that my daughter was

I said suddenly, grasping

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

hospital, the best doctors," I promised desperately.

I had just built an entire amusement park for her. I had plans, so many plans

chilling sound

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