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?

mental wrestling match cast the room into

friends exchanged knowing glances, visibly relieved

or something. Getting played

respond verbally, just tamped down whatever the hell was happening in his chest and stated coldly: "I will never have

as they headed for the door.

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Chapter 5

Lucas slowly approached the bed,

slightly furrowed

escape the nightmare,

her cheek, but the moment they

her

to the window, lighting a cigarette and taking a desperate drag,

Aria finally opened her eyes, Lucas

sat beside her bed, holding a cup of water. Seeing her awake, he leaned forward: "How're you

head away, refusing to

the next few days, Lucas barely left the hospital, taking

calls, and she noticed how his face softened when he returned, a gentleness in his expression that she'd once

calls

pattern had existed throughout their entire relationship. The mysterious calls he'd always step away to take,

she understood that Leila had been on the other end

in to change her

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