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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."

his powerful presence

threat.

voice low and intense.

Olivia. Your daughter loved you enough to want you to live, even knowing

in being Lily's mother to seek justice

you," he

of grief that had

fight for Lily's memory when everything

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

each other."

silent for a moment, his expression thoughtful. "Because no one should have

said. "And because I admire your strength, even when

it in

his face, looking for deceit but finding

myself, for the first

comfort from another.

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maintained his gentle hold on my hand,

silence. "My claim about needing a fake girlfriend for

the Crystal Design Competition. Your strength, your dignity despite everything you've endured..." He paused, seeming almost vulnerable despite

powerful Alpha, leader of the Moonstone Pack, cared for me? After everything I'd been through,

quickly continued, "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

For

had endured, I finally allowed my eyes to

(Ethan's POV)

I paced restlessly. I hadn't slept for a

her car abandoned on Moonstone Bridge haunted me.

hadn't been there...

hair, my amber eyes bloodshot from lack

thought of losing Olivia forever had

cared to

rang, Maxwell Chen's name flashing

update?" I demanded without

through, uncharacteristically hesitant. "I've

something

Emma's spleen treatment that you need

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sharpened immediately. "What is

investigating the medical records

concerning about the timing of Emma's kidney

I growled, my patience wearing

kidney that saved Emma Frost had originally been intended

like a physical blow. I gripped the edge of

did you say?" My voice was

perfect for Lily's condition," Maxwell

neutral. "But through Victoria's manipulation, it was redirected to