The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 131

Chapter 131

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.”

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

something happen to her?” I asked,

“She’s alive and well. She just… she

“What do

old.” Lilith sighed and tucked a strand of silver hair behind her ear. “But I’ve been watching over her,

her, but she doesn’t know

that. We’ve actually interacted before, many times, but she has no idea

to admit who she was? “Lilith, why haven’t you told her who you

“It’s complicated.”

gently. “But surely she’d want to know her mother. Surely she’d be happy to find out you’re alive

don’t know What

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abandoned her?”

“Did you? Abandon her?”

her.” The pain in her voice was raw enough to make me