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.

I could feel my

of him, the way he commanded the room without even trying. It reminded me of

out to grasp his hand. “Marcus,

warm and strong, just as I remembered. For a brief

chest.

other for so many years, we shared something real,” I pleaded, my voice breaking. “I believe you wouldn’t have changed if

understand. Had to make him see that she was the

tumbling out in a rush. “I

tightened on his hand. “When I returned to the Northern Territory and saw Elena by your side

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

fade as I slowly released his hand. The Alpha’s complete emotional detachment was

my claims with Alpha finality. “I was

his golden eyes boring into mine. “If

blood drained from my features as his words hit home.

Oliver? I

a 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 you find

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actually care about

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and Nathan

mercy as he continued to dismantle

I protested desperately, trying to distance

didn’t say he was

not Nathan, then who?

each word a dagger to my heart. “Nathan Sterling only helped you because he

paused, letting that sink in. “Perhaps even he didn’t expect that by orchestrating such elaborate schemes, he would eventually develop genuine feelings for

world tilted on its axis. Nathan had feelings for Elena? But

me!

him for your own revenge,” Marcus continued relentlessly. “But you never considered that he was

secret I thought I had kept, every scheme I thought was hidden – he knew it

Northern Territory with gambling debts,” he recounted with Alpha authority. “And you were studying abroad in the Southern Territory,

became shallow. How could he know

with academic scholarships, wouldn’t be able to afford a residence in such an exclusive area, right?” His

exposure. His gaze felt like silver daggers cutting through my flesh and

“How you ended up mated to Felix Xavier now, I no longer care,” he cut me

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me, right? his Alpha

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