He Signed My Freedom Now He Wants Me Back Chapter 38
The hearing did not end just because Lucian expelled Vivian. The elders demanded he explain why an unregistered candidate had been allowed to direct Luna office staff, interfere with heir training, and repeatedly block Healers from reaching the children.
Lucian said he had simply believed she would never harm them.
“You once believed Evelyn would harm them, too,” the presiding elder replied. “The difference is that you never investigated the accusations against Evelyn, while you continued to make excuses for Vivian even after evidence appeared.”
The guards played the footage of me being force-fed wolfsbane. In it, the Healer explicitly warned of the poison’s effects, yet Lucian still gave the order. Noah and Iris were clapping on the bed, while Vivian stood just outside, knowing she had prepared the juice and saying nothing.
For the first time, Lucian asked for the footage to be paused.
The elder refused.
“If you are asking for Evelyn’s Luna authority to be restored, then you must face, in full, why she left.”
Then they played the elevator rescue. Twice the guards explained that my injuries were more severe. Twice Lucian chose Vivian. It had not been an instinctive response in a moment of chaos. It had been a formal Alpha order, given after he fully understood the risks.
The final hearing record concluded that Lucian had not abused the children, but he had committed serious failures of guardianship. Until a full family duty review was completed, the guards would conduct regular checks on the children’s living conditions.
What Vivian lost was not merely bags and jewelry.
She lost every institutional path by which her Dawncrest bloodline had brought her close to the Luna position.
At the end of the hearing, Noah asked Lucian, “Mom really isn’t coming back?”
Lucian answered, “I’ll find her.”
That was where the file ended.
I closed it without replying to Highridge’s reconsideration request.
A true claim cancellation didn’t require the person who caused the harm to finally understand it.
It only required the person who was harmed to decide it was over.