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.

her phone for the twenty-first time-nearly three hours had elapsed-the

on a gurney, his head heavily bandaged, but surprisingly conscious. His unfocused gaze

"Aria!"

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Chapter 17

bleeding, Lucas reached for her the moment the

intensity.

he whispered, voice breaking. “I was sure I'd hallucinated you. I kept telling them to make sure you were here

if expecting her

his grasp, her voice devoid of emotion: "Your enthusiasm

Confusion clouded

extracted her hands from his grip, stepping

me, Lucas, 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

calculated humiliations from the person they trusted most and still remain standing in the

Lucas's face drained

she had

his injuries, he struggled upright, nearly tearing out his

reaching for her. "It

her watch. "I have a performance tomorrow that requires my complete focus. This melodrama wasn't on my

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

me." Her voice remained

shook his head frantically,

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