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

missing her

remembered her voice on the phone that last time: "Daddy, can you

the treatment

response: "Don't be like

and agonizing. I had failed her in every way a

child.

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

going to be

absolution, no forgiveness. Just the

name etched in stone.

I knelt there, memories washing over me. Not memories of time spent with Lily - those were painfully few -

while I lavished attention on Emma, a child who

casting a silvery glow across the

was breaking, marking the end of

I finally rose to my feet. My

diminished by grief.

Lily," I promised, my voice hoarse

the cemetery gates, my

outside, leaning against my car. His

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and he straightened quickly when he saw

King," he greeted me with a

acknowledgment, too drained

shifted uncomfortably, his eyes darting away

it?" I demanded, my voice sharper than

clearly reluctant to

wearing thin. "Tell me

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

tightened at the mention of the incident. "Darius

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