From Betrayed Luna to Wolf Queen (Lillian) novel Chapter 204

Chapter 204 The Truth and the Accident

Chapter 204 The Truth and the Accident

Third–Person POV:

What the hell had happened?

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Lillian felt like her head was caught in a tornado–a roaring, violent wind tearing apart everything she thought she knew.

Carter’s words played over and over in her mind. “It was the Graves Pack. People from the Graves Pack killed her. It was Julian’s father… His father killed your mother.”

She didn’t even remember leaving the hospital.

Now, standing under the pale winter sun at the hospital entrance, she felt nothing but a deep, bone–chilling cold.

Carter had explained everything in that quiet, grim tone of hers.

“The Graves Pack wanted the land where your grandmother’s house stood. The buyout offer was a rip–off, and your mother refused to sell. Some pack members showed up at the door. Things got heated, shouting turned into shoving… your mother was pushed. She hit the back of her head on a stone edge in the yard. There was so much blood… and they didn’t get her to the hospital in time.”

Carter had gone on, her voice tight with old anger.

“That land was prime real estate–right in the heart of Gilneas City. Lots of developers were after it, but the Graves Pack got to it first. To clear the site quickly, they handled the ‘negotiations‘ themselves. Even the Luna of the Graves Pack was there that day.”

The Luna…

Eleanor.

So the woman Lillian had known only as “Grandma Carter” from the orphanage had actually been hired by her family as a live–in nanny years before.

After Lillian’s mother died, Carter tried to take her in, but her own family refused. So Carter did the next best thing–she brought Lillian to the orphanage and started working there herself, just to keep an eye on her.

All those years, she never told Lillian the truth.

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In Carter’s eyes, the Graves Pack was too powerful, too well–connected. If Lillian had tried to

go

after them back then, she would’ve been crushed.

“They’re a pack of wolves in every sense,” Carter had muttered, bitterness etched in her wrinkled face. “Every last one of them, men and women alike–ruthless. If even one of them had shown a shred of decency that day and driven your mother to the ER, she would have lived.”

A sharp, suffocating pain clenched Lillian’s chest now.

It felt as if her whole world had frozen over.

She’d never imagined that the kind old woman who’d watched over her all those years at the orphanage had originally been hired by her mother.

Nearby, George watched Lillian’s still, pale form and finally stepped closer. “Miss, you should get in the car. It’s too cold out here.”

The temperature was dropping day by day, and in her current state, she couldn’t afford to catch a chill.

Lillian gave a slight nod and let him guide her into the back seat.

No sooner had the door closed than George’s phone buzzed. He answered quietly, listening as the person on the other end delivered rushed, tense news.

“George, there’s been an incident–Betsy was in a car accident on her way to the courthouse. Her vehicle caught fire and exploded.”

George stiffened. “An accident? And an explosion?”

“Yes, sir.”

“Where is Betsy now? Is she alive?” George kept his voice low, controlled, but his knuckles were white where he gripped the wheel.

He glanced instinctively into the rearview mirror, meeting Lillian’s icy gaze.

Betsy was the attorney handling Lillian’s bond dissolution. She’d only just been admitted to Gilneas City a few days prior.

That morning, she’d picked up the signed termination agreement from the hospital and was en route to file the final paperwork at the records office when the accident happened.

“Betsy was pulled from the car before the explosion, but she couldn’t retrieve her briefcase in

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time.”

George let out a slow, quiet breath. At least she was alive.

That briefcase almost certainly held the termination agreement.

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“Understood,” George said tersely before ending the call. He met Lillian’s eyes in the mirror again. “Miss, I’m afraid-”

“I heard.”

Lillian cut him off, her voice flat and cold.

Betsy’s accident meant the dissolution hadn’t been filed. The paperwork was gone.

“Shall I prepare another set of documents for you?” George asked after a moment.

“Yes. Do it.”

Her reply was immediate, her tone leaving no room for hesitation. Of course they would prepare another set.

Things between her and Julian had been broken long before today–and now, they were beyond repair.

Lillian pulled out her phone and dialed Eleanor’s number directly.

Eleanor picked up on the second ring, her voice sharp and impatient. “Did you get certificate?”

the

Hearing that voice again—even through the phone–sent a wave of raw fury through Lillian. She wanted to reach through the line and wrap her hands around the woman’s throat.

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