Lilith’s Pov
I stood there, frozen. My ears heard the words, but my mind refused to accept them.
Disowned?
My father—my own blood—just said he has disowned me.
“You… you can’t do that to me, Dad,” I said, my voice cracking, barely more than a whisper. “I need you right now. You’re the only family I have. I don’t have anyone else to turn to.”
He stepped closer, his face hard and unforgiving. “You only care about yourself, Lilith. That’s all it’s ever been. Now my wife is dead. Because of you.”
“No!” I gasped. Tears fell freely now. “She shouldn’t have done that. If she knew the truth, she wouldn’t have killed herself. Not for nothing—”
“For nothing?” he thundered. “Did you just call your sister’s death nothing?”
“You don’t know the truth!” I shouted, the pain bubbling out of my che
