Alpha King Chases Abandoned Luna

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Blood immediately soaked his white shirt, spreading like a crimson flower blooming in the

moonlight. The metallic scent filled my nostrils, but I felt no remorse-only a hollow

ache

where my heart used to be.

Tears streamed down my face as I twisted the knife deeper. "She was your daughter! Your own

flesh and blood!"

Ethan's amber eyes widened with shock and pain. His mouth opened, but only a

choked gasp

escaped.

"What would Lily think?" I sobbed, my entire body trembling with grief and rage. "How would

she feel knowing her beloved daddy was responsible for her death?"

The memory of Victoria's manipulative call flashed through my mind. Her honeyed voice luring

me to Sacred Moonlight Cemetery with promises of returning Lily's urn. The way she dangled

the Moonwood Ceremonial Urn before me, forcing me to kowtow until my forehead bled.

"You redirected Lily's kidney donor to Emma," I hissed, twisting the knife again. "Our daughter.

died while you were comforting another woman's child!"

I knew Victoria had orchestrated this confrontation, hoping I would kill Ethan and then myself." She wanted me broken beyond repair, driven to suicide by the weight of my actions.

But something in me refused to surrender completely to despair. The empty urn I still clutched

in my left hand reminded me of what I had lost-what had been taken from me.

"Tell me it's not true," I pleaded, my emerald eyes searching his face for any sign of denial.

"Tell me Victoria lied."

wanted him to deny it, to tell me it was all a cruel manipulation. My wolf, though weakened by grief, still clung to the faintest hope that the mate we had once loved

pain as he slumped against the wall, leaving a smear of blood. "Olivia..." he gasped, his voice

I screamed, my fingers

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truth. The guilt that flashed across his face confirmed everything Victoria had

he whispered, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth. "I

die."

hit me like a physical blow. My legs nearly gave

hope died in my

chose Emma over Lily," I whispered, my voice hollow with disbelief. "You

die."

with blood-stained hands. "Olivia, please... I was wrong. So

I recoiled violently, the sudden movement

his abdomen.

wound, splattering across my hands and clothes. The warm, sticky

the knife into his heart again and again until he felt a fraction of the pain I'd

myself to strike again.

back," Ethan gasped, pressing his hand against the wound.

wished

words meant nothing against the enormity of his betrayal. Five years of

our daughter had to die while Emma thrived. Five years of watching him shower Victoria's daughter with the love and attention he had denied

the empty urn. Sobs wracked my body as the full weight of the

silver's burning effect on his werewolf healing, slid down the wall until he was sitting

to gush from

ashen as he collapsed completely, sprawling at my feet.

whispered, his amber eyes filled with remorse. "I'm

down my face as I stared

I had once

itself. The father who had betrayed our daughter

way.

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by maternal instinct and the primal need