Alpha King Chases Abandoned Luna

Chapter 170

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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

voice on the phone that last time:

and the

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

my throat, raw and agonizing. I had failed her in every

child.

amusement park," I said, my voice breaking. "I was going to make it

to be

forgiveness.

name etched in stone.

memories washing over me. Not memories of time spent with Lily - those were painfully few - but memories

Emma, a child

to lighten, casting

was breaking, marking the end

stiff as I finally rose to

diminished by grief.

return tomorrow; Lily," I promised, my voice hoarse from unshed tears. "Every day, until you forgive

toward the cemetery gates, my body heavy with

Chen was waiting outside, leaning against my car. His usually impassive face

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and he straightened quickly when

me

nodded in acknowledgment,

darting

demanded, my

clearly reluctant

wearing thin. "Tell

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took a deep breath. "It's about the man who attacked Mrs.

tightened at the mention of

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