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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

me cautiously,

tiny voice would tremble slightly as she

trying to make herself worthy of my

barely acknowledged her.

Victoria and

thought of Victoria's daughter sent a fresh wave of guilt crashing over me.

affection while my own daughter watched from

shadows?

a particular day at Imperial Gardens when both girls had been present.

me, throwing herself into my arms with complete confidence that I

swung her around, laughing at her

daughter had stood apart, watching with longing in her eyes. When Emma

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it briefly, muttered something about

who was demanding I

ill. How could I

whispered, more to myself than to Victoria. "I failed

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