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.”

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

something happen to her?” I asked, dreading the

“She’s alive and well.

frowned. “What do you

I’ve been watching over her, unbeknownst to her, all these years.


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

sadly. “Something like that. We’ve actually interacted before, many

too shy to admit who she was? “Lilith, why haven’t you told her who you are?” I

“It’s complicated.”

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

tears again. “I don’t know What if

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abandoned her?”

“Did you? Abandon her?”

pain in her voice was raw enough to make me choke up.

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