Alpha King Chases Abandoned Luna

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Chapter 289

(Evelyn's POV)

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I bent down with effort, my joints protesting as I carefully picked up the moonstone amulet from the ground. Despite my weakened state from the confrontation in the garden, something about this pendant called to me.

The moment my fingers touched the cool stone, recognition flooded through me. My breath caught in my throat.

This wasn't just any amulet. The intricate wolf carvings, the unique shimmer of the moonstone in the light-this was the token. that young Ethan had given to my Olivia when they were just pups.

"Ice-Eyes Alpha," I whispered, the childhood nickname coming back to me unbidden.

My wolf stirred beneath my skin, protective instincts flaring despite my frail condition. Olivia had told me this precious amulet was lost after her memory faded following the trauma at that terrible werewolf orphanage.

I turned the pendant over in my palm, confirming what I already knew. The Stone family crest was etched into the back-this was Ethan's ancestral amulet, passed down through generations of Alphas.

Who had been wearing this sacred family heirloom that rightfully belonged to my daughter?

(Victoria's POV)

1 lunged forward from my wheelchair with a speed that belled my supposed weakness from silver poisoning. My fingers closed

around the amulet in Evelyn's hand.

I snarled, yanking it from her

beneath my skin. This old woman couldn't possibly know what this

I'd anticipated. Her maternal instincts lent her unexpected strength as

amulet back from

1 hissed,

to control my mounting panic. That amulet was

of

old she-wolf!"

back down. I wheeled myself closer, using

daughter are nothing but

a mother's defiance.

Tacing heart

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firmly. "It was given to her by

me like a

laugh, trying to dismiss her claim. "Another desperate

hammered in my chest.

woman was clearly helping Olivia fabricate some connection to Ethan's past. It had to be a lie-a pathetic attempt

position

as I studied Evelyn's features more carefully in the dim

her eyes, the determined set of her jaw-they seemed hauntingly

dawned

after the hunter attack that had claimed his mother's life. The