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?

cast the room into

knowing glances,

gone and caught feelings or something. Getting played by your own revenge game would

didn't respond verbally, just tamped down whatever the hell was happening in his chest and stated coldly: "I will never have feelings for her and let Aria Collins be my

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

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Chapter 5

slowly approached the bed, staring down at

slightly furrowed as if even

escape the nightmare,

moved of their own accord toward her cheek, but the moment they

as if her skin had shocked

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

finally opened her eyes, Lucas was

cup of water. Seeing her awake,

turned her head away, refusing

left the hospital, taking care of her with an attentiveness that surprised even

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

now-those calls were to

this pattern had existed throughout their entire relationship. The mysterious calls he'd always step away to take, claiming "pack business" or

understood that

in to change her

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