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

Having truly experienced Ethan's fatherly love and protection,

believe he would cast her

grave desecration incident was just a childish act

convinced herself her Alpha father was only

he would soften

Daddy," she whispered, her voice barely audible.

amber eyes darkened as he took in

with conflicted protective instincts, the sight

ancient Alpha responses.

controlled voice, "Why did your classmates

Emma replied, "Because they saw that Emma

so they bullied me for no

of a child who had learned to

turned frigid, his Alpha aura growing cold. He realized that

own culpability, presenting only the side that could

his sympathy.

she herself was also a perpetrator. With a

his leg away,

small cry of pain. The marble floor was

beneath her

she looked up

wolf

going unanswered. She

to understand why

concern for her

did not help

had fundamentally changed since the previous

truth about Lily's death and

everything shifted.

indulgence had

tormented her classmates

a victim herself, had turned into

than offer shelter. The accounts he

haunted him now.

she had beaten classmates bloody, forced them to kneel and submit

under her legs, and even

head into a toilet.

he had enabled a little monster. The more he hated himself

the more he loathed Emma

just like her mother