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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

remembered how she would approach me cautiously, always careful

tremble slightly

she would say, standing straight, trying to make herself

what had I done? I'd barely acknowledged her. I'd been too

Victoria

sent a fresh wave of guilt crashing over

Emma with affection while my own

shadows?

Gardens when both

my arms with complete confidence that I would catch her.

laughing at

daughter had stood apart, watching with longing in her

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she'd said softly, "would you like to see the drawing

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something

who was demanding I watch her

ill. How could I

than to

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