Billionaire Alpha's 99 Deadly Games

Chapter 18

Chapter 17

Turning back, she found Michael-Lucas's beta-staring at her with shock etched across his face, his

dropped briefcase scattered across the hospital floor.

“L... Luna?” he stammered, face draining of color. "Is that really you?"

Escape, it seemed, wouldn't be so simple. Michael recovered quickly, positioning himself between

Aria and the exit with newfound determination.

"Please," he implored, lowering his voice. "You can't just disappear again. You have no idea what Alpha has been through since the fire. He hasn't slept through a single night in a year. Even if you want nothing to do with him now, at least stay until he's out of surgery. He literally just took a car impact for you."

Aria regarded him coolly, her expression betraying nothing of the calculations happening behind it.

"First," she stated with clinical precision, "I am not your Luna. That person died in a fire last year-a fact your Alpha publicly confirmed."

"Second, I'll stay until he's stable, but I'm leaving immediately. My company has a performance

tomorrow."

"Third, I have zero interest in rekindling any connection with your Alpha. Our relationship ended the moment he orchestrated my death."

With each statement, Michael's professional facade cracked further, revealing genuine distress, but he eventually nodded in reluctant agreement to her terms.

They settled into the antiseptic waiting room chairs, silence stretching between them as surgery continued behind closed doors.

three hours had elapsed-the operating room doors finally

surprisingly conscious. His unfocused gaze swept the waiting area until it found her, his eyes immediately

"Aria!"

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despite multiple fractures and internal bleeding, Lucas reached for her the moment the

intensity.

kept telling them to make sure you were here when I

expecting her

remained perfectly still within his grasp, her voice devoid of

clouded

extracted her hands from his grip, stepping back with deliberate

was when everyone believed I died." Her tone was conversational, as if discussing the weather. "It gave me the freedom to build a life without looking over my shoulder

maintained unwavering eye contact as she continued. "Not many people could experience ninety-eight calculated humiliations from the person they trusted most and still remain standing in

Lucas's face drained of color as the

she had known

upright, nearly

reaching for her. "It wasn't-it started that

at her watch. "I have a performance tomorrow that

grabbing her wrist. "I can't lose you again. Not when I've just found

me." Her voice

frantically, his

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