Chapter 5

A heavy silence fell over the hospital room, as if time itself had stopped.

Lucas, who'd been in the middle of ripping into his friends, froze at Derek's words echoing through

the sterile air-

"Holy shit, man. Tell me you haven't actually fallen for her."

Fall for Aria? What the fuck?

He rejected the thought with almost violent immediacy, as if the speed of his denial could erase the

strange emotion crawling through his chest.

He had always been destined for Leila-what was Aria in comparison? Such she- wolf like Aria definitely didn't deserved to be his Luna.

And nothing but collateral damage in his revenge scheme. A means to an end.

But the logic didn't track. If she meant nothing, why had he lost his goddamn mind when he saw those men on top of her?

Even when drunk wolves hit on Leila at pack gatherings, he'd never gone nuclear like that.

It must only because of the fucking dame mating bond, right?

match cast the

exchanged knowing glances, visibly

you had us worried for a second. I thought you'd gone and caught feelings or something. Getting played by your own revenge game would be such a fucking waste. Leila would

coldly: "I will never have feelings

they headed for the door. "She's probably gonna wake up

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Chapter 5

the bed, staring down

slightly furrowed as

escape the nightmare,

their own accord toward her cheek,

as if her skin

window, lighting a cigarette and taking a desperate drag, hoping the nicotine might quiet whatever

her eyes, Lucas was alone with

cup of water. Seeing her awake, he leaned forward:

her head away, refusing

hospital, taking

softened when he returned, a gentleness in his expression that she'd once mistakenly thought was for

knew now-those calls

relationship. The mysterious calls he'd always step away to take, claiming "pack business" or

her devotion. Now she understood that Leila had been

came in to change

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