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

an accident. Either way, our ancestral

his gold–digger wife to come

straight through my heart.

before…”

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. So

found it hard to be grateful for anything that man had done. He’d been nothing but a user and

man who doesn’t know how to manage money and who has no sympathy for his people. Often, I do wish I could take my rightful place as Alpha. But…” She gestured

my cheek, considering this for a

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this curse and find a way to reveal our

wandered into the kitchen, yawning and stretching. I watched her through my lashes as she slumped over

chewed, then made a sour face and spat the food out into

holding up the container. “Someone put

this!”

what I saw you dumping in that

was.” I resisted the urge

whirled on another servant nearby–a young girl with enormous eyes and curly red ha was you,

It

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