Alpha King Chases Abandoned Luna

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Blood trickled down my face as I knelt before Lily's grave, my designer clothes torn to shreds from Olivia's lashing. The pain was excruciating, but I refused to show weakness.

"I would never harm a pup,” I declared, widening my eyes with practiced innocence. "Where is

your proof of these wild accusations?"

Matriarch Evelyn's withered face contorted with rage. "You dare ask for proof

when you stand at the grave you desecrated?"

I met her gaze steadily. "I loved Lily as if she were my own."

The lie tasted sweet on my tongue. In truth, I had celebrated when that sickly child finally died,

removing the last obstacle between Ethan and me.

"You redirected her kidney donor," Olivia spat, her emerald eyes burning with hatred. "You

got the treatment meant for

feigned outrage. "How could you suggest

would never-"

raised her walking stick, her frail body vibrating

swung the stick toward my face with surprising

arm before the blow

he urged, positioning himself

intervention inadvertently pushed me closer to Olivia.

curl into a subtle

whispered, my voice too low for Ethan to hear. "She deserved

die."

snapped. With a primal scream, she lunged forward, her

The force sent me

steps.

falling, the world spinning around me. Then