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.

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

about being in pain? That she would pretend to cough

was no justification for what I had done

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failure?" I stammered, the

fear. "Yes," she said

gave her six months

"But why didn't you-"

me. "I did. Countless times. I

always too busy with Victoria and

a knife to my heart, cutting deeper because I knew

Olivia continued, her voice breaking slightly. "A perfect match.

last minute, the

I

whispered. "Victoria's daughter needed

somehow, her need was

implications of what she was saying hit me like

benefit Emma? Had I

own

death by

"Victoria wouldn't do that. She couldn't

humor. "You still defend

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

see her," I said suddenly, grasping Olivia's hand.

wrist tremble beneath my

hospital, the best doctors," I promised

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

sound that sent shivers down

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