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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werewolves had prioritized

to escape the unexpected intensity of the blaze, they

faces pulverized by Lucas's rage, barely able to form coherent words through swollen lips and

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

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

eye swollen completely shut. "Anything you want, man. Just don't kill

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

pathetic

man standing over them seemed beyond reason, beyond humanity. When he finally spoke, his voice was

were pack brothers?

moved toward the

after him, leaving bloody

explain yourselves to Aria in

terrified screams, the basement door slammed shut with

upstairs, covered in their blood, Leila rose quickly from the Italian leather sofa where

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began, attempting

when she saw the extent of the

fear.

instead to his pack's longtime pack

burial site been prepared?” His voice was raw

staring at him in theatrical disbelief.

about?"

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

much alive! Have you

at the she-wolf before him, Lucas's eyes

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

precise and final, "my fated mate

color from her perfect

was 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

should have seen this coming. Since Aria's death,

on everyone involved in harming her, while shutting himself away, refusing to let authorities take Aria's remains, keeping her with him day and

Leila, publicly acknowledged as Lucas's inevitable future Luna, could barely get him to

first, she hadn't taken it seriously, assuming he was simply processing the