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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

remembered her voice on the phone that last time:

and the

be like

my throat, raw and agonizing. I had failed her in every way a father could

child.

breaking. "I was going to make it

going to be

tombstone offered no absolution, no forgiveness. Just the stark reality of my

name etched in stone.

memories of time spent with Lily - those were

lavished attention on Emma, a child who wasn't even

lighten, casting

marking the

I finally rose to my feet. My Alpha strength,

diminished by grief.

promised, my voice hoarse from

turned and walked slowly toward the cemetery gates, my body heavy with

Chen was waiting outside, leaning against my car. His

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quickly when he saw

he greeted me

acknowledgment,

his eyes darting away from mine.

is it?" I demanded, my

clearly reluctant

I growled, my patience wearing thin. "Tell me

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the man who attacked Mrs. Winters in Desolate

jaw tightened at the mention of

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