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Attached was a photo of Ethan kneeling before Lily's Moonstone Tombstone, his head bowed.

My first instinct was protective rage. How dare he visit her now, after ignoring her for so long? But something else stirred within me - a recognition that despite everything, he was Lily's

father.

My fingers hovered over the keyboard before I typed my response: "He's Lily's father. Let him

1. be. He owes her this penance."

I stared at my own words, surprised by them. For the first time, I acknowledged Ethan's right to

mourn our daughter.

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I knelt before my daughter's moonstone tombstone, the cold ground seeping through my pants. The cemetery was silent except for the occasional rustle of leaves in the night breeze.

The polished stone gleamed in the moonlight, Lily's smiling face captured in the colored

photograph embedded in the granite. She looked so happy, so alive blood- spattered child I'd seen in the surveillance footage.

nothing like the pale,

"Lily," I whispered, tracing her name with trembling fingers. "I'm so sorry."

The words felt pathetically inadequate. What apology could possibly make up for years of

For missing

that last time: "Daddy, can you come be

the treatment

cold response: "Don't be like your mother, full

agonizing. I had failed her

child.

breaking. "I was going to make it up to you.

to be

no forgiveness. Just the stark reality of

name etched in stone.

of time spent with Lily - those were

while I lavished attention on Emma,

to lighten, casting

breaking, marking the end of

I finally rose to my feet. My Alpha strength, usually so

diminished by grief.

Lily," I promised, my voice hoarse from

and walked slowly toward the cemetery gates,

leaning against my car. His usually

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straightened quickly when

me

acknowledgment, too drained

uncomfortably, his eyes darting away from mine. Something

demanded, my voice sharper

hesitated, clearly reluctant to

patience wearing thin. "Tell me what

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mention of the incident. "Darius Reed.

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