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The heartbreaking plea from beyond the grave seemed to penetrate where nothing else had. Olivia's body suddenly tensed, her fingers twitching in my hand.

Her eyes flew open, emerald green and filled with desperate longing. "Lily!" she cried, reaching toward the tablet as if to grasp her daughter's image.

I quickly took her hand. "She's with you, Olivia. She's always with you," I assured

her, squeezing

her fingers gently.

(Olivia's POV)

Darkness had been my refuge. In that peaceful void, there was no pain, no grief, no betrayal-

just blessed nothingness.

Then I heard her voice-my sweet Lily-cutting through the darkness like a beam of

light.

"Mommy, please don't be sad anymore. Lily loves you the most!"

The words pulled me back to consciousness against my will. My eyes opened to a world I had tried to leave behind, the pain rushing back with brutal force.

"Lily!" I cried out, reaching desperately toward her voice.

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A warm hand caught mine, strong fingers wrapping around my own. Not Lily's tiny hand, but

someone else's-someone unexpected.

Lucas Blackwood sat beside my bed, his powerful frame seeming too large for the hospital chair. His gray eyes, usually so intimidating, now held genuine concern.

"She's with you, Olivia," he said softly. "She's always with you."

I blinked, trying to make sense of his presence. "Why are you here?" My voice was hoarse, my

throat raw from river water.

"I pulled you from the river," he explained simply. "I've been here since they brought you in."

Memories flooded back-Matriarch Evelyn's funeral, the bridge, the cold embrace of

Silvermoon River. I had wanted to die, to join Lily in whatever came after this life.

“I couldn't save her,” I whispered brokenly, tears filling my eyes. “I couldn't protect her from

Victoria... I couldn't avenge her death."

My fingers clutched at Lucas's hand with surprising strength. “I'm her mother, but I failed her

completely."

powerful presence a

threat.

his voice low and

enough to want you to live, even knowing

Lily's mother to seek

"I will help you," he promised. "You don't have to face

penetrated the fog of grief that had surrounded me for so long. Could I

fight for

help me?" I asked, searching his face for ulterior motives. "We

each other."

moment, his expression

pain alone," he finally said. "And because I

see it

studied his face, looking for deceit but finding only sincerity in his

I whispered, allowing myself, for the first

comfort from another.

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hold on my hand, his thumb

with you, Olivia," he said after a moment of comfortable silence. "My claim about needing a fake girlfriend for business reasons was a lie." His admission

dignity despite everything you've endured..." He paused, seeming

leader of the Moonstone Pack, cared for me? After everything I'd been through, after my failed attempt to

"I'm not asking for anything in return. There's no pressure to reciprocate. I only want to stand beside you through your grief and your quest for

such quiet conviction, soothed something broken inside me. For the

endured, I finally allowed my eyes to close, falling

(Ethan's POV)

seemed to close in around me as I paced restlessly. I hadn't slept for a full day and night, my mind consumed with

of her car abandoned on Moonstone Bridge

hadn't been there...

disheveled hair, my amber eyes bloodshot from lack

losing Olivia forever had shaken

cared

rang, Maxwell Chen's name

I demanded

Maxwell's voice came through, uncharacteristically

something

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sharpened immediately.

medical records as you

the timing of Emma's

to the point, Maxwell," I

the kidney that saved Emma Frost had originally

me like a physical blow. I gripped the

did you say?" My voice was

perfect for Lily's condition," Maxwell explained,

through Victoria's manipulation,

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