(God’s POV)

    Just as Theodore was about to speak, the Pack Enforcers he had shaken off earlier found him again.

    “Alpha Redgrave, you cannot approach Miss ckwood and Alpha Kane without permission! You’re still a suspect in this assassination case!” The enforcers warned. “Please leave now, or we’ll have to take you to the holding cells.”

    Theodore looked at Olivia’s face. She wouldn’t look at him, wouldn’t trust him.

    He stepped back in pain. “Olivia… he knows everything. He must have been tracking and monitoring us all along.”

    “Not necessary. Alpha Redgrave probably doesn’t know how famous you are in our circle. After all, men who cheat and betray while pretending to be deeply in love are quite rare.” Ethan’s tone was full of sarcasm and targeting.

    Theodore’s nerves were on edge, his hands clenched into fists at his sides, looking at Ethan with zing anger.

    He neither knew Ethan nor had any dealings with him.

    In Theodore’s eyes, Ethan was targeting him to curry favor with Matthew.

    But his… the way he looked at Olivia… was tooplicated…

    His feelings toward Olivia made him uneasy.

    “Still not leaving?” At this moment, Matthew raised his wrist. “Isn’t it 7:30?”

    Ethan’s expression paused for a few seconds, then he came back to his senses and said gently, “Yes, if I keep

    Seraphina waiting, she’ll probablyin about me to her mother.”

    “I’m leaving.”

    Ethan bent down to pick up the gun, but his hand was immediately targeted by theser sight.

    His expression instantly turned cold, but he could only put on a gentle face, straighten up and step back. “See you at Seraphina’s birthday party tomorrow night…”

    “Luna.”

    He chewed these two words in his mouth before spitting them out.

    Ethan lifted his foot and left. After passing by them, that gentle face instantly darkened.

    His mind was filled with what Lyra had promised him thirty years ago when she left.

    [Ethan, you will be my only child

    [Let me go. If I stay here, I’ll die at your father’s hands sooner orter.]

    [I’m not his mate. I can’t stand by your side openly as your mother. I’m just the Mooncrest family’s sacrifice to him.]

    Q’s Pos

    How old was he then?

    He had forgotten.

    He only knew that on that snowy night, he let her go.

    And she disappearedpletely, as if she had never existed.

    He became Alpha Moonstone’s real son, with no connection whatsoever to that genius she wolf from the

    Mooncrest family who had appeared like aet and then vanished.

    Ethan walked far away, then suddenly turned back to look at Olivia beside Matthew. He didn’t know what was

    wrong with him, why seeing Theodore made him instinctively want to defend her.

    Blood ties?

    Was it that magical?

    But if he discovered she also possessed Lyra’s talent, he would definitely kill her with his own hands.

    Just like the Key he had been tracking.

    In the end, they would all meet the same fate at his hands. One person at the top was enough.

    He hoped she only looked like Lyra.

    “Olivia, can I speak with you alone?” Even though warned by the enforcers, Theodore still refused to leave. “It’s about Lyra

    ‘She didn’t just leave a will.”

    Hearing this, Olivia looked at Theodore, her hand tightly gripping Matthew’s arm. “There’s nothing my mate

    can’t hear

    Matthew looked at her hand holding his arm and raised his hand, causing the enforcers to step back.

    Theodore watched Olivia holding Matthew’s hand as she walked step by step toward him.

    He reached out to take her hand, but stopped mid–air

    He couldn’t let her discover that he had installed surveince in her office, and he definitely couldn’t let her

    know he had hired hackers to track her.

    “Lyra didn’t want you to engage in any work rted to tactics and advanced technology. You always listened to her the most. End Shield Chain Technology, give upputers. Whatever kind ofpany you want, I can

    give it to you.”

    He even yed a recording about Lyra.

    Hearing the recording, Olivia’s eyes widened in shock

    “You’re lying!” Olivia’s palm instantly pressed against Theodore’s cheek.

    Theodore grasped Olivia’s hand, his gaze meeting her angry and pained eyes.

    She struggled, so he released his grip.

    This was all he could say.

    I touchputers, no one would ever discover her identity.

    His fingertips still held the warmth of her palm, but it scattered with the wind, so quickly fade the imagination

    “My mother would never want me to give up my career. Every time 1 train, her eyes light up. She always tell me I’m the most talented agent she’s ever seen. Olivia trembled with anger, but her hand was held by Matthew,

    She calmed down. She couldn’t let anyone know her identity

    “The recording must be fake, synthesized!*

    “Why do you have to interfere with the only thing I care about?”

    Olivia thought of ra. “I left, severed our mate bond, fulfilled your wishes to you could be with ra openly”

    “Why are you still chasing me? Even arranging an assassination plot? Olivia looked at Theodore in disbelief. “Risking your life to act devoted?”

    “If you were truly devoted, there wouldn’t be ra, and there wouldn’t be Rosalie.”

    Theodore didn’t know how to exin his impulses. Every time he was with ra, the person in his mind was always her.

    But she was so fragile, he couldn’t touch her.

    His feelings for her had nowhere to go.

    His hand, suspended in mid–air, slowly dropped from where her heart was. “I’m not with ra. That daughter

    was originally meant for you. If you don’t want her, I won’t acknowledge her either.”

    “The person I love, from beginning to end, has only been you.”

    “Lyra’s recording is real. If you don’t believe it, you can have it tested.” Theodore handed his phone to Olivia,

    but she knocked it away.

    “Impossible!” Olivia’s eyes reddened, her whole being in chaos. “My mother left me the techpany Shield

    Chain…”

    “That’s thepany I left for you…”

    “Lyra didn’t just have onepany under her name, but several techpanies. Before she passed away, she asked me to shut them all down.”

    “But thispany is called Shield Chain. Don’t you remember?”

    “You said you would definitely be stronger and be the Shield Chain that protects everyone.” Theodore recalled the past, his lips carrying sweetness. “You were only sixteen then.”

    “Olivia, Lyra gave me everything under her name. The inheritance you received – that apartment is mine, and Shield Chain is what I privately kept.” Theodore grasped Olivia’s hand. “She believed I would take care of you

    for life.”

    Theodore’s words shattered the only beam of light in Olivia’s heart.

    They stood there, gazing deeply into each other’s eyes.

    He watched her tearful gaze gradually dim, her body swaying unsteadily, then the next moment she was embraced by Matthew.

    Her hand slipped from his and was wrapped in Matthew’s palm.

    He watched as she was lifted by Matthew and carried to the car.

    He saw her curl up in his embrace, heartbroken and utterly desperate.

    He understood her better than anyone – her preferences, her habits, and her weaknesses.

    An eighteen–year–old orphan’s only source of strength was her mother.

    And he had personally shattered that belief.

    The recording on his phone continued ying, like a broken record, repeating over and over.

    [Theodore, after I die, help me shut down all thepanies under my name.

    [This should have been something I handled myself.]

    [Unfortunately, I don’t have that much time left.]

    Back then, he had asked her, [Mother Lyra, aren’t thesepanies supposed to be left to Olivia? Didn’t you n to send Olivia abroad for further education, hoping she would develop in the high–tech field?]

    [No need to leave them for her. She doesn’t need them.]

    [If she returns to your side, don’t let her touchputers or anymore.]

    Olivia had heard up to this point.