Alpha King Chases Abandoned Luna

Chapter 343

(Ethan's POV)

The world around me crumbled into dust. Every certainty I'd built my life upon disintegrated in an instant.

"Orange Mom?" The words escaped my lips before I could stop them, barely a whisper.

Evelyn Winters-the woman who had saved me, comforted me, protected me when I was at my most vulnerable-stood before me. Her eyes, so like Olivia's, held none of the warmth I remembered from my childhood.

"Ethan Stone, don't call me that," she said, her voice cutting through me like a silver blade. "You are not worthy!"

Each word was a physical blow. My wolf whined pitifully beneath my skin, recognizing the truth even as I struggled to process it.

"But you..." I couldn't form coherent thoughts. Memories flooded back-nights spent in her small cottage, trembling from

nightmares, her gentle hands stroking my hair as she sang that lullaby.

"I saved your life once," Evelyn continued, her voice cold with contempt. "And how did you repay me? By destroying my

daughter's."

My chest constricted painfully. The contrast between the motherly warmth in my memories and her current indifference was

unbearable.

"I promised..." I whispered, more to myself than to her. "I promised to protect you both."

I'd made as a child echoed in my mind: to cherish and protect my Orange Mom and

her for

had failed.

filled with hatred. The scent of sunshine and citrus that had always drawn me to her suddenly made

these years, I had mistaken Victoria for my Little Orange. The magnitude of my error crushed me like a physical

rapid succession. Every time Victoria had come to me crying about Olivia. Every time I'd sided with her without question. Every time I'd

conditioned to believe that Little Orange was the best

countless times.

It was an illusion.

faith, I had hurt Olivia. Repeatedly.

was overwhelming-so intense it felt like I was suffocating.

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howl its anguish.

who saved my

true Little

failed

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through me. Our beautiful daughter, who had died

her final days asking for

came.

to look at Olivia again. The she-wolf I had always been drawn to, even as I tried to suppress those feelings out

my supposed Little

that Olivia was the true Little Orange all