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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,

voice would tremble slightly as she greeted

would say, standing straight, trying to make herself worthy of my

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

Victoria and

sent a fresh wave of guilt crashing over

Emma with affection while my own daughter watched

shadows?

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

with complete confidence that I

around, laughing at

watching with longing in her eyes. When

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softly, "would you like to see the drawing

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at it briefly, muttered something

Emma who was demanding I watch her

me physically ill. How could I have been so

myself than to Victoria. "I failed my daughter in

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