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Each step toward Olivia's door felt heavier than the last. When I finally reached it,
I hesitated before knocking, gathering what little courage I had left.
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My knuckles rapped against the wood, the sound echoing in the quiet morning air.
(Olivia's POV)
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The sudden pounding at my cottage entrance startled me from my grief. I'd spent the night in
tearful vigil, clutching Lily's Moonwood Ceremonial Urn and wondering how I would go on
without the pendant that had kept a part of her close to my heart.
When I opened the door, I found Ethan Stone standing there. The sight of him sent a fresh
wave of anger through me.
He looked terrible-pale and haggard, his usually dominating presence diminished by
exhaustion. His amber eyes, normally so confident, now held a haunted look I'd never seen
before.
me. This man had thrown away our daughter's ashes as if
were
nothing.
even stand after what you did?" I
of winter.
stepped forward from behind his boss,
reception.
night kneeling at Lily's grave at Sacred
in the Moonlit Reflection Pool retrieving the pendant," he
words careful and measured.
with a sharp gesture, his amber eyes
he extended his hand, opening his palm to reveal Lily's Ashes
Pendant.
from the pool, but intact. My heart leaped at the sight of
to you," he said simply,
around it, tears began streaming down my face. I clutched it to my chest,
again for the first time since learning
the words
a moment, we stood in silence, united in our grief for the daughter we had
in very
moving toward my shoulder in what appeared to be
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