The Lycan King and His Dark Temptation by Luna Nova

Chapter 573

---- Asuit of armor to protect herself from loneliness, from the absence of a mother to love and care for her.

"My love, I need to leave with your father to tend to some matters of the Duchy," I said, approaching her cautiously.

She didnt look at me.

She didnt speak.

She just kept reading with her head down.

"I...

Pll be back soon..." "Better not come back.

Why dont you stay at your country house?" she replied coldly, without lifting her eyes from the pages.

Asharp pain shot through my chest, and the corners of my eyes burned.

I swallowed hard, forcing down the lump in my throat.

Time would heal this.

"T will come back, Lavinia.

I always will because I will never leave you alone again.

mistake, and I regret it,

idea how much I regret not being here

Thad to lower

too full of things I couldnt

could push me away, I leaned down and kissed the crown of her beautiful

felt her body tense, but

sniffled slightly, trying to hold back the treacherous

love you, my

failed you, but I only ask for one chance, just one, Lavinia, to let me be

never regret it,"

---- She didnt respond.

at the page without turning it, but my mothers heart could sense

"Tll be back soon.

you," I added, and after one last

the door, I turned back for a final look through the small

My daughter was crying.

had hidden her face behind the book, but her shoulders

door shut without forcing

hand trembled on

eyes tightly, trying to hold back the tears that wouldnt stop rolling down my

my father for ruining my life, but never for stealing my daughter from me and robbing me of so many moments

"Calm yourself, child.

is waiting