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

believe he would

incident was just a childish act of jealousy against

gone. She convinced herself her Alpha father was

soften

voice barely

took in the severity of

conflicted protective instincts, the sight of a wounded

ancient Alpha responses.

controlled voice,

replied, "Because they saw that Emma had

they bullied me for no reason." Her voice

a child who had

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

presenting only the side that could

his sympathy.

that she herself was also a perpetrator. With

his leg away, his wolf rejecting the false

the ground with a small cry

unforgiving beneath

she looked

wolf

going unanswered.

to understand why

no concern for her

did not help

of her had fundamentally changed since the previous

truth about

everything shifted.

now saw that his past indulgence had made

her classmates with impunity using his

a victim herself, had 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 to kneel and

them crawl under her legs, and even shoved

head into a toilet.

a little monster. The more

leniency, the more he loathed Emma

so skilled at pretense, just like her