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Blood flowed from the gash on his temple, pooling beneath his head as he lay unconscious on my doorstep. His
powerful frlooked suddenly vulnerable, his face pale against the crimson spreading around him.
"He deserves to die! It would be better if he were dead!" The thought flashed through my mind with startling
clarity.
The scene beforemirrored another-Lily collapsed at Moonlight Fair, blood trickling from her mouth as her
small body gave out. | remembered the devastation that had torn throughthen, the desperate need to save
her.
But now, looking at Ethan, | felt nothing. A chilling indifference had settled over me, numbingto his suffering.
| took a step back into my cottage, my fingers tightening around Lily's urn. The pendant containing sof her
ashes hung heavy around my neck, returned toby the very man
now bleeding on my doorstep.
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Without a word, | closed the door, shutting out the sight of Ethan's unconscious form. | turned
off the porch light, plunging the entrance into darkness.
Let Maxwell find him. Let someone else care. | had given all the care | had to give, and Ethan
had thrown it away-just as he had thrown away our daughter.
(Maxwell's POV)
| waited by the car, my gaze fixed on the window of Olivia Winters' cottage. The Alpha had
been inside for nearly twenty minutes now, far longer than I'd anticipated.
When the porch light went off, | assumed he'd left through another exit. But as minutes ticked
by with no sign of my boss, an uneasy feeling settled in my stomach.
Something was wrong. My instincts as Ethan Stone's trusted special assistant rarely failed
1. me.
| raced up the path to the cottage, triggering the motion sensor light as | approached. What |
saw made my blood run cold.
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Alpha King Ethan Stone lay motionless on the doorstep, surrounded by shattered fragments of
what appeared to be a decorative vase. Blood pooled beneath his head, the crimson stain
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spreading across the wooden planks.
"Alpha King!" | dropped to my knees beside him, checking for a pulse. It was there, but weak
and erratic.
| immediately pulled out my phone, calling for an ambulance while using my free hand to
press my jacket against the wound, trying to stem the bleeding.
"Ms. Winters!" | shouted toward the closed door. "Ms. Winters, your mate needs help!"
No response cfrom inside the cottage. The realization hitlike a physical blow-she
had seen him fall and had done nothing. She had turned off the light and left him to bleed out
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