After Severance,Alpha Fell in Love With Ex-Luna

< Chapter 230: You actually care about me, right?

Chapter 230: You actually care about me, right?

Chapter 230: You actually care about me, right?

(Sophia Rivers’s POV)

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I picked up my compact mirror with trembling hands. The reflection staring back at me was a shadow of my former self. My left ear still couldn’t hear properly, and the bruises on my face had turned an ugly yellow–green color.

But I couldn’t let Marcus see me like this. Not completely broken.

I applied lipstick with shaking fingers, trying to restore some semblance of dignity. The bright red color looked garish against my pale, injured face, but it was better than nothing.

Even in this pack enforcement facility’s medical wing, even as a prisoner, I needed to face him with whatever composure I could muster. This might be my last chance to reach him, to make him remember what we once had.

The pack nurse approached my bedside. “Miss Rivers, you have a visitor.”

My heart hammered against my ribs. After all this time, he had finally come.

The nurse drew back the privacy curtain, and there he was. Marcus Blackwood stood in the doorway, his imposing Alpha presence filling the entire space. His devastatingly handsome features seemed even more commanding than before, if that was possible.

Those golden eyes surveyed the scene with calculated coldness. No warmth. No recognition of our shared past. Just the detached assessment of an Alpha evaluating a fallen pack member.

I forced a bitter laugh, trying to mask the desperation clawing at my chest. “I thought you wouldn’t come.”

He remained silent, his expression unreadable.

“They say you have a terminal illness,” I continued, unable to stop the words from spilling out. “I’ve been wondering if it’s some kind of Moon Goddess’s retribution.”

The hint of dark satisfaction in my voice surprised even me. If I was going to suffer, why shouldn’t he?

Marcus stepped closer, unmoved by my words. His Alpha authority radiated from him like heat from a flame.

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“You look like you’ve suffered quite a bit in detention, haven’t you?” he countered, his voice. cutting through my pretense like a blade.

words hit their mark. I could feel my carefully constructed facade

I was stunned into silence by his presence. The sheer force of him, the way he commanded the room

reached out to grasp his hand. “Marcus, you

and strong, just as I remembered. For a brief

chest.

pleaded, my voice

him understand. Had to make

out in a rush. “I regret not

returned to the Northern Territory and saw Elena by your side as your Luna, I was consumed with jealousy. I just couldn’t accept

mate bond warmth or pack loyalty. The golden eyes that once looked at me with something

his hand. The Alpha’s complete emotional

finality. “I was

boring into mine. “If not

features as his words hit home. “You…

Oliver?

waste of time to investigate for so long,” he confirmed, his voice carrying the authority of an Alpha who had methodically uncovered every deception within his territory. Panic rose in my throat like bile. “When did

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I learned about those schemes between you and Nathan Sterling,” he replied, linking my betrayal to

as he continued to dismantle my

matters!” I

coldly. “I didn’t say he was the one who told

down my spine. If not Nathan, then who? How extensive was his intelligence

precision, each word a dagger to my heart. “Nathan Sterling only helped you because he harbors an ancestral grudge

even he didn’t expect that by orchestrating such elaborate

its axis. Nathan had feelings for Elena? But he was supposed

me!

“But you never considered that he was holding back information from you. I became

blades. Every secret I thought I

your adoptive father fled the Northern Territory with gambling debts,” he recounted with Alpha authority. “And

How could he know

afford a residence in such an exclusive area, right?” His golden eyes never left my face. “If

violently under his relentless exposure. His gaze felt like silver daggers cutting through

betrayed. “How you ended up mated to Felix Xavier now, I no

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care about me, right? his

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