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

bond. Having truly experienced Ethan's fatherly love

not believe he

a

her Alpha father was only

and he would soften upon seeing her

her voice barely audible. "Emma

he took in the severity

with conflicted protective instincts, the sight

ancient Alpha responses.

asked in a low, controlled voice,

saw that

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

of a child who had learned to manipulate

aura growing cold.

presenting only the side that could

his sympathy.

was ignoring the fact that she herself was also a perpetrator.

his leg away, his wolf rejecting

ground with a small

unforgiving beneath her

looked

her wolf

unanswered.

to understand why

concern for her

not help her

fundamentally changed since

the truth about

everything shifted.

past indulgence had made

tormented her classmates with impunity using his

turned into someone who would tear

rather than offer shelter. The accounts he heard from her

haunted him now.

had beaten classmates bloody, forced them

under

head into a toilet.

had enabled a little monster.

more he loathed Emma standing before

pretense, just like