The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 70

Chapter 70

Ella

The restaurant was cozy and warm, with soft lighting that made everything feel intimate and comfortable. We got a table by the window, and I could see people walking by on the street outside, laughing and holding hands and swinging their shopping bags.

Real families. Real couples.

“I’m sorry,” I said to Lilith as soon as we’d ordered our food. “I didn’t mean to pry about your past. That was

rude of me.”

Lilith shook her head. “It’s not that I don’t want to talk about it. It’s just… complicated.”

I waited, not wanting to push again but hoping she’d continue.

“The truth is,” she said, looking down at her hands, “I do view you as a daughter. More than that, actually. You are a daughter to me, Ella. The daughter I never got to raise.” She sniffled and hesitated for a long moment, then whispered, “I did have a child. A little girl.”

My eyebrows shot up. This was the first time I had ever heard of Lilith having a child. I’d always wondered, but she had never mentioned having a daughter, not even once. If anything, I’d thought that she had simply never married and had kids.

“Did something happen to her?” I asked, dreading the answer.

“She’s alive,” Lilith said quickly. “She’s alive and well. She just… she doesn’t know about me.”

I frowned. “What do you mean?”

“She hasn’t seen me since she was a baby. Less than a year old.” Lilith sighed and tucked a strand of silver hair behind her ear. “But I’ve been watching over her, unbeknownst to her, all these years. Making sure she’s safe, making sure she’s happy.” She laughed bitterly. “Although sometimes I don’t think I’ve done the best job of that.”

“So you watch her, but she doesn’t know you’re there?”

Lilith nodded sadly. “Something like that. We’ve actually interacted before, many times, but she has no idea

who I really am.”

That took me by surprise. Was she too shy to admit who she was? “Lilith, why haven’t you told her who you

are?” I asked.

“It’s complicated.”

I said gently. “But surely she’d want to know her mother. Surely she’d

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out you’re alive and

tears again. “I don’t know. What if she hates me?

her?”

“Did you? Abandon her?”

pain in her voice was

take it from someone who never got to meet her mother–she would want to know you. Even if it’s complicated, even if it’s

“You think so?”

at all, I think about her

watery now. “If someone came to me tomorrow and told me my mother was actually alive somewhere, watching over me, caring about me… it would

her face pale and her eyes filled with an emotion

“Ella, 1-”

I’ve got a club sandwich for the young lady, and

Lilith was about to say. But when he was gone, and I asked what she was going to tell me, she just waved her hand and said she couldn’t remember. I took it as a sign that I had exhausted the conversation, and whatever else she had

about lighter things–the shops we’d visited, plans for the upcoming week, anything to give us both a chance to recover from

meal when our waiter

front of me. “This is from the gentleman at the

raising his own glass in my direction. He looked

I was married, after all, even if it was a sham of a

about everything that had been happening lately. I was

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five years of my life living like a nun, following all the rules, being the perfect Luna wife while my husband

I was so focused on being proper? How many

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