The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 242

I nodded, knowing that Lilith was right. I couldn’t afford to sit here and wallow in self–pity. I needed to buck up and accept that this was my life now, whether I liked it or not, and just be glad to be a part of my son’s life.

“When I was a baby,” I asked, glancing at Lilith, “what did you do? Surely you tried to see me.”

Lilith’s face darkened. “By the time I realized what had happened to me and got my bearings, your father had

already remarried. I recall showing up at his doorstep and begging him for a job, but he and his new wife quite

literally threw me out on my ass.”

Margaret. Just thinking about her made my mood turn sour.

“I didn’t see them at the wake,” I pointed out.

Lilith scoffed. “I didn’t want to say anything unless you brought it up, but they never showed. Apparently, they

got a big insurance settlement when the house burned and went on a vacation.”

“A vacation.” I glanced at Lilith. “Do you think they were the ones who set fire to the estate? For the insurance

payout?”

“I think… That we shouldn’t rule anything out at this point,” Lilith replied cautiously. “Anyone could have done

perhaps it really was an accident. Either way, our ancestral home is gone and your

was too busy galavanting around with his gold–digger wife to come to his

words shot straight through my heart. “Right. Stormhollow

before…”

I would have inherited the pack and become the female Alpha. But fate had other plans.” She sighed wistfully, but then smiled and patted my knee. “But if it weren’t for your father, I wouldn’t have you.

grateful for anything that man had done. He’d been nothing but a user and manipulator his

who has no sympathy for his people. Often,

on the inside of my cheek, considering this for

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wandered into the kitchen, yawning and stretching. I watched her through my

a bite, chewed, then made a sour face and spat the

the food?!” she shouted, holding up

this!”

ear. “Was that what I saw you

was.” I resisted the

young girl with enormous eyes and curly red ha was you, wasn’t it?” the maid barked. “You’re trying to poison me, you vengeful

It

maid reached for the other servant’s hair with a feral snarl despite the girl’s protests.