Alpha King Chases Abandoned Luna

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told me repeatedly, but I hadn't believed her.

"She tried to tell me," I said, my amber eyes darkening with self-loathing. "Olivia tried to tell me

Lily was dead, but I accused her of hiding our daughter.”

I remembered the day I took Emma to Enchanted Kingdom Theme Park. My phone had buzzed

repeatedly with calls from Olivia, but I'd ignored them, assuming they were accusations about

my favoritism toward Emma.

"I didn't know," I whispered, my powerful frame seeming to shrink with each word. "I didn't

know that Lily had been waiting for me at Moonlight Fair, and had died that same day."

Victoria's eyes filled with tears. "Oh, Ethan, how terrible for you."

compelled to justify my actions, though I knew nothing could

was worsening," I explained. "I arranged that birthday celebration because I feared it might be her last. I never imagined it would

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wouldn't get another birthday."

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had devoted so

daughter had been the one truly in

voice broke through my thoughts. "I feel so guilty," she said, tears

you that day, begging

you away from your

head, absolving her of blame

I said. "I can't blame you

to break my promise to

weeping against my chest. I held her,

word. The next morning, despite my injuries and lingering fever from Olivia's attack, I returned to Sacred Moonlight

small carved wooden toys. Things I'd noticed she liked in the Imperial Gardens surveillance videos