Billionaire Alpha's 99 Deadly Games

Chapter 10

A crowd had gradually formed around them.

Tyler, Blake, Derek, and Josh stood nearby, faces etched with horror and genuine remorse. Leila

hovered at the edge, her eyes flickering with jealousy and bitter resentment.

Countless others watched with sorrowful gazes.

Lucas acknowledged none of them.

A single devastating fire had transformed the whole territory overnight.

Within forty-eight hours, every pack connected to the "prank" found themselves under brutal attack from the Thornwood pack. Their pack area has sharply declined, their reputations destroyed, their

futures obliterated.

Those Lucas's friends-now locked in the soundproofed basement of his pack's estate, subjected to his unrelenting rage.

Lucas had become something feral, something bloodlust, delivering blow after merciless blow to the men cowering on the concrete floor.

"WHY THE FUCK WERE THERE GAS CANS IN THAT CABIN?" he roared, his knuckles split and bleeding, voice barely recognizable. "ANSWER ME!"

"Why did your pussy-ass guards run without her?" Another devastating punch landed on Tyler's already disfigured face.

"WHY DIDN'T YOU GET HER OUT? WHY IS SHE DEAD WHILE YOU WORTHLESS PIECES OF SHIT ARE STILL BREATHING?"

Each question punctuated with violence, as if hurting them might somehow lessen his own guilt-as if avenging Aria could absolve him of being the one who ultimately led her to her death.

According to their original "hilarious prank," Aria was never supposed to be in actual danger.

As a precaution, they had stationed pack guards inside to protect her. If the fire got out of control, those guards were supposed to rescue her immediately.

But somehow, the abandoned cabin had been rigged with gasoline containers they hadn't put there.

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had prioritized

the unexpected intensity of the blaze, they had forgotten

barely recognizable, their faces pulverized by Lucas's rage, barely able to form coherent words

L-Lucas," Blake sobbed, blood pouring from his nose. "We fucked up...

supposed to happen like this," Derek whimpered, curled into a protective ball. "The fire... it was

eye swollen completely shut. "Anything

offer whatever you want," Josh begged, dragging himself across the floor. "Please, please... we've been pack

men knelt before him, pathetic

the man standing over them seemed beyond reason, beyond humanity. When he finally spoke, his voice was terrifyingly flat-the calm of a predator who has already decided the fate of

"You want me to spare you because we were pack brothers? Did you spare my mate? Did any of you worthless fuckers think

toward the

scrambled after him, leaving bloody handprints on

to Aria

basement door slammed shut with

blood, Leila rose quickly from the Italian leather sofa where she'd

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began, attempting her

died when she saw the extent of the carnage covering him,

fear.

turning instead to his

been prepared?” His voice was raw

echoed, staring at him in theatrical

about?"

manicured nails digging into his arm, her eyes wide. "I'm your future

much alive! Have

him, Lucas's eyes filled

had he never noticed how self-absorbed and manipulative Leila truly

"my fated

simple statement drained all color from her

that pathetic nobody? Have you forgotten who she was- some loner wolf who stole what was rightfully mine? Don't tell me you actually fell for that

have seen this coming. Since Aria's death, Lucas had

while shutting himself away, refusing to let authorities take Aria's remains, keeping

Leila, publicly acknowledged as Lucas's inevitable future Luna, could

hadn't taken it seriously, assuming he