After I Amazed the World the Cold Alpha Regretted

Chapter 2

[It's done.]

I messaged Leo.

[Something has come up because Aria told me a client stop by unexpectedly.]

[I sent beta to pick you up. Don't wait for me to get home.]

[Okay.]

We both knew he wouldn't come to pick me up.

Yet, we still went through the motions of this familiar exchange.

After all, there really wasn't much left to say.

noticing that

words.

common message

[Not coming home tonight.]

there

[I'm with Aria...]

traveling with Aria, meeting clients with

never tried to

he never understood was that it wasn't about him telling me

to pick me up.

Aria's name came up in

Cold

Chapter 2

up many times before, but his answers are