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

escape the unexpected intensity of the blaze, they

pulverized by Lucas's rage, barely

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

like this," Derek whimpered, curled into a protective ball.

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

himself across the floor. "Please, please... we've been pack brothers

pathetic in their terror, foreheads pressed to the concrete in

humanity. When he finally spoke, his voice was terrifyingly flat-the calm of a predator

want me to spare you because we were pack brothers? Did you spare my mate? Did

toward

scrambled after him, leaving bloody handprints on the

explain yourselves to

the basement door slammed

their blood, Leila rose

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began, attempting

died when she saw the extent of the carnage covering him, her face freezing

fear.

her completely, turning instead to his pack's

Luna's burial site been prepared?” His voice

theatrical disbelief. "What the actual fuck are

about?"

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

much alive!

him, Lucas's eyes filled

how self-absorbed and manipulative Leila

word precise and final, "my fated mate and my Luna is not you. It's

statement drained all color from her perfect face. "You've

kind of 'Luna' was that pathetic nobody? Have you forgotten who she was- some loner wolf who stole what

should have seen this coming. Since Aria's

away, refusing to let authorities take Aria's remains, keeping her with him

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

it seriously, assuming