Alpha King Chases Abandoned Luna

Chapter 373

(Third person's POV)

As Ethan Stone hesitated, just as Victoria Frost expected, he was moved by

Emma's tearful pleas and stopped to look down at her. Seeing his attention,

Emma's tears intensified, her swollen red eyes filled with longing and dependence

as she clung to Ethan's leg.

She reached out to him with her small hands, her voice breaking with desperation.

"Daddy, Emma really knows she was wrong, please don't abandon Emma."

"Without Daddy, my classmates bully me. Look, they beat me all over. Daddy, it

hurts so much." Her wolf pup whimpered pitifully beneath her skin, projecting

distress pheromones that would normally trigger any Alpha's protective instincts.

The scent of her fear and pain filled the air around them. Emma's small body

trembled as she pressed closer to Ethan's leg, seeking the comfort and protection

she had always received from him.

When Ethan did not immediately comfort her, Emma pulled open her jacket with

shaking hands. She revealed the tattered Crescent Moon Academy uniform

underneath and the bruises and welts marring her pale skin.

These visible wounds were her trump card. She remembered how, in the past,

whenever she was bullied, her father figure would defend her fiercely.

He would punish those who hurt her and their families through his Alpha authority.

She recalled the tenderness with which he had once soothed her after an incident

at the Silvercrest Pack Medical Den.

He had promised to acknowledge her as his true daughter despite the lack of

Ethan's fatherly love and

could not believe he would cast her

incident was just a

herself her Alpha father was

would soften upon seeing

Daddy," she whispered, her voice barely audible. "Emma needs

amber eyes darkened as he took in the severity

conflicted protective instincts, the

ancient Alpha responses.

asked in a low, controlled voice,

saw that

her, so they bullied me for no reason." Her voice carried

a child who had learned to manipulate adult

gaze turned frigid, his Alpha aura growing cold.

culpability, presenting only the

his sympathy.

that she herself was also a perpetrator. With a

pulled his leg away,

a small cry of pain. The marble floor

unforgiving beneath her bruised

she looked

wolf

unanswered.

understand why

no concern for her

not help

of her had fundamentally

learned the truth about Lily's death and the

everything shifted.

indulgence had made him the unwitting shield for

tormented her classmates

had turned into someone who

rather than offer shelter. The accounts he

haunted him now.

had beaten classmates bloody, forced

them crawl under her legs, and

head into a toilet.

enabled a little monster. The more he

the more he loathed Emma standing

skilled at pretense, just like her mother Victoria.