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"No, Lily has long been buried." My voice was hoarse, barely recognizable even to my own

ears.

The words hung in the sterile air of the Silvercrest Pack Medical Den. Each syllable felt like

broken glass in my throat.

Victoria's hand tightened around mine. Her blue eyes widened with what appeared to be

shock.

"Five years," I continued, the admission tearing at my soul. "She's been gone for five years, and

I didn't know."

The weight of this truth crushed me. My daughter had died, and I hadn't been there. Hadn't

known. Hadn't mourned.

Memories flooded my mind-painful, sharp-edged fragments of a life I'd barely acknowledged.

Lily's small face looking up at me, her emerald eyes-so like her mother's-filled with hope

I entered a

approach me cautiously, always careful

would tremble

standing straight, trying to make

done? I'd barely acknowledged her. I'd been too busy with pack business,

with Victoria and

Victoria's daughter sent a fresh wave of guilt

Emma with affection while my

shadows?

at Imperial Gardens

throwing herself into my arms with complete

swung her around, laughing at her delighted

own daughter had stood apart, watching with longing in

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at it briefly, muttered something about it being

who was demanding

me physically ill. How could I have been so blind?

failed her," I whispered, more to myself than to Victoria. "I failed my daughter in every

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