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

friends exchanged knowing glances, visibly relieved

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 lose

coldly: "I will

the door. "She's probably gonna wake up soon anyway. We'll

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Chapter 5

the bed, staring down at the unconscious

brows slightly furrowed as if

escape the nightmare,

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

as if her skin

taking a desperate drag, hoping the nicotine might quiet whatever the hell

her eyes,

water. Seeing her awake, he leaned forward: "How're you feeling?

just turned her head away, refusing

barely left the hospital, taking care

out to take calls, and she noticed how his face softened when

calls were to

with clear eyes, she realized this pattern had existed throughout their entire relationship. The mysterious calls

devotion. Now she understood that Leila had been on

in to change

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