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 and protection,

not believe he

a childish act

gone. She convinced herself her Alpha father was only acting

would soften upon seeing her

voice barely audible. "Emma

darkened as he took in the severity

conflicted protective instincts, the

ancient Alpha responses.

a low, controlled voice, "Why did your classmates

Emma replied, "Because they saw that Emma had no daddy

me for no reason." Her voice carried

of a child who had learned to

Alpha aura growing cold. He realized

unaware of her own culpability, presenting only the side

his sympathy.

she herself was also a

away, his wolf

with a small cry of pain.

unforgiving beneath her bruised

she looked

wolf

unanswered. She

understand why

concern for

not

fundamentally

about

everything shifted.

had made him

She had tormented her classmates with impunity using

victim herself, had turned into someone who would tear

than offer shelter. The accounts he heard from

haunted him now.

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

under her legs, and even shoved

head into a toilet.

realized he had enabled a little monster. The more he

the more he loathed Emma

was so skilled at pretense, just like her mother