Chapter 415 The One Who Stayed


    Lana called van my name while she was unconscious?


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    Laly’s gave drifted off, and she couldn’t help remembering when she was little<i>–</i>how Lana used to hold her and gemly call her name again and again.


    Sometimes in the dead of night, she still missed the mother who once loved her, who had once been sond.


    But she couldn’t forget the way Luna had hurt her over and over again for Mathilda’s sake–how twisted and vicious her face became in those moments.


    What’s done is done.


    Back then, they hade to an agreement: Lily would marry into the Lu family <i>in </i>Mathilda’s ce. From that point on, she would owe the Ginger family nothing. There was no reason for their lives to be tangled up anymore.


    “Luna stopped being my mom a long time ago. She’s injured. I have no obligation to visit her. Now get the hell out.”


    “Lily!”


    The three Ginger sons‘ expressions turned stormy the moment they heard her say Luna wasn’t her mother


    anymore.


    To them, Lily was heartlesspletely ungrateful,


    But deep down, they knew the truth: Randy was just the scapegoat. The real reason Lily had been kidnapped was Mathilda. And they would never allow Mathilda to go to prison.


    So while they were angry, guilt kept them fromshing out. Without another word, they turned and rushed toward the intensive care unit.


    “Lily…”


    Bodger and the others were only allowed in after they changed into the custom–made visitor gowns provided by the private hospital.


    Mathilda’s nerves were shot.


    Especially when she remembered the way Luna had looked at her just before the massive portrait copsed. That look sent tremors through her entire body.


    She didn’t want to face Luna.


    She was afraid of the disappointment in her eyes–more afraid she would speak the truth.


    But staying away only made her even more uneasy. In the end, she forced herself into the gown and followed the others into the ICU.


    Luna’s eyes were half–open when they entered, and she was still murmuring Lily’s name.


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    She had been dreaming throughout hera.


    Dreams filled with memories from the time she adopted Lily.


    When she first took Lily in, she truly loved that warm, soft little girl.


    She had meant to treat her as her own daughter–to love her forever.


    But nothing in this worldsts forever.


    Somewhere along the way, her attitude toward Lily changed.


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    And when her friends kept telling her over and over again that an adopted child could neverpare to her real daughter… that she had to prioritize her biological child or risk losing her… once Mathilda returned, Luna deliberately began to distance herself from Lily.


    She had noticed–more than once–that Mathilda was setting Lily up. And still, she pretended not to see it She let her husband and sons harshly punish Lily again and again.


    Even that time, in the freezing snow, when Lily was thrown into the icy river by her sons–Luna just stood there coldly and watched.


    She watched Lily struggle toward the shore, only to be kicked back into the water again and again.


    In the end, Lily nearly lost the ability to have children.


    Back then, Luna told herself Lily deserved it.


    Why should her own daughter suffer in the countryside while Lily–who had stolen her daughter’s rightful life–got to live so well?


    Lily deserved to suffer. She deserved to feel the pain and torment her real daughter had gone through.


    All Luna wanted was to make her biological daughter happy. To make up for everything she had lost.


    She seemed to forget… if she hadn’t adopted Lily, Nancy would have.


    She also seemed to forget… eight years ago, during that massive fire–if Lily hadn’t risked her life to carry her out, there would be no Luna left in this world.


    And now, as shey unconscious, all those memories she had tried so hard to bury came flooding back like a curse, tormenting her soul and conscience until she wished she were dead.


    They say blood is thicker than water. But when her life was on the line, it was the daughter she raised who had risked her life to save her.


    The daughter she pampered like a treasure–her biological child–had sent her straight to hell in a single


    moment.


    She had failed her Lily.


    “Lily… Lily…”


    She missed her Lily so much.


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    She wanted to hear her call her “Mommy” in that sweet voice. She wanted to hold her tight and never let


    go…


    “Mom, you’re finally awake!”


    “Mommy…”


    “Luna…”


    Hearing the voices of her husband, sons, and daughter, Luna slowly came back to herself.


    She looked hopefully at the people standing by her bed, desperate to see the one person she most wanted


    to see.


    But Lily wasn’t there.


    She looked again, just to be sure.


    Still, Lily hadn’te.


    The hope in her eyes shattered instantly, leaving only endless regret and bitterness.


    “Luna, how are you feeling? Does it hurt?”


    Jerome had always cared deeply for Luna. Seeing how badly she had been burned broke his heart–his voice trembled with emotion.


    Luna didn’t answer.


    Her body hurt.


    But what hurt more… was her heart.


    Because all this pain and all these injuries–were gifts from her own daughter.


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