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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.

of it moved me. This man had thrown away our daughter's

were

nothing.

what you did?" I asked coldly,

of winter.

behind his boss, his tone

reception.

Mr. Stone spent the night kneeling at Lily's grave at Sacred Moonlight

he spent hours in the Moonlit Reflection Pool retrieving the pendant,"

words careful and measured.

assistant with a sharp gesture, his amber eyes never leaving my

opening his palm

Pendant.

but intact. My heart leaped at the sight

he said simply, his voice rough

the pendant. The moment my fingers closed around it, tears began streaming

for the first time since learning it was

words

in our grief for the

in very different

toward my shoulder in what appeared to be

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