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.

feel my

force of him, the way he commanded the room without even trying. It reminded me of everything I had lost, everything

out to grasp his hand. “Marcus,

was warm and strong, just as I remembered. For a brief moment, hope flared

chest.

pleaded, my voice breaking.

to make him see

in a rush. “I regret

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

of any mate bond warmth or pack loyalty. The golden eyes that once looked at me with something resembling affection now held nothing but cold

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

claims with Alpha finality. “I was never

eyes boring into mine. “If not me, wasn’t

from my features as his

Felix? About Oliver? I had been so careful, so

to investigate for so long,” he confirmed, his voice carrying the authority of an Alpha who had methodically uncovered every

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learned about those schemes between you and Nathan Sterling,” he replied, linking

mercy as he continued to dismantle my illusions

about the pack’s private matters!” I protested

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

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

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

even he didn’t expect that by orchestrating such elaborate schemes,

axis. Nathan had feelings for

me!

him for your own revenge,” Marcus continued relentlessly. “But you never considered that he was holding back information from you. I became suspicious when I realized he wasn’t your primary backer

like silver blades. Every secret I thought I had kept, every scheme I thought was

Territory with gambling debts,” he recounted with Alpha authority. “And you

became shallow. How could

pack background, even with academic scholarships, wouldn’t be able to afford a residence in such an

gaze felt like silver daggers

from the Alpha I had betrayed. “How you ended up mated to Felix Xavier now,

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