Crippled Luna's Farewell: Half A Life Without My Alpha's Deadly Deception

Chapter 144

The silence between Arnold and Sarah was thick, stretching between them like an invisible wall neither wanted to cross.

It wasn't the comfortable kind of quiet they had once shared, nor was it the cold, sharp silence of an argument. It was something else entirely-heavy, suffocating, filled with unspoken thoughts and lingering regrets.

Sarah sat in the car on the return trip, she looked out the window and didn't notice Arnold looking at him thoughtfully.

"I have things to do, I have to leave first in a few minutes." Arnold glanced at his watch, "I'll have the driver take you home."

Sarah simply nodded, not bothering to ask where he was going. What was the point? She had long stopped expecting answers from him.

Arnold hesitated for a brief second as if expecting her to say something-maybe a question, maybe a complaint-but she remained silent.

Taking that as her answer, he turned and walked out, the soft click of the door the only sound breaking the stillness.

As soon as he was gone, Sarah let out a slow breath, pressing her fingers against her temples. The silence felt different now. Not heavy, not suffocating-just empty.

Then, her phone rang.

The name flashing on the screen made her brows furrow slightly.

**Vincent.**

Her divorce attorney.

She hesitated for only a moment before answering. "Vincent."

"There's been a development," his voice was direct, professional. "Arnold's side wants to revise the divorce agreement. They're offering you additional properties -worth hundreds of millions of dollars."

For a moment, Sarah didn't respond. She stared at the floor, her grip on the phone tightening slightly.

Hundreds of millions?

Was this Arnold's version of closure? A final settlement for their

understand," she finally

but when she offered nothing more, he sighed. "I'll send you the details. Let me know how you

ended the call without

staring at the phone in her hand, before placing it face down on

what you

feel like something was pressing down on

the sterile environment even more impersonal. Yet, in the midst

car, she noticed a familiar figure standing by the

Linda.

elegantly in a fitted coat, her arms crossed, Linda was leaning against her car, her expression unreadable as she looked straight at Sarah.

keep coming here when Grandma doesn't even want to

**

stubbornness? A desperate need to prove something? Or was it

as she walked into the hospital. She had no energy to waste on pointless

up in bed,

old woman said, relief in

gently adjusting the

But in the back of Sarah's

Arnold hadn't arrived yet.

was

that

walked in an hour later, his expression was neutral, but there was something distant about him. He didn't look like a man who had just arrived at a hospital.

comment

She didn't need to.

grandmother, ever perceptive, noticed the tension. She glanced between them

for the first time. A flicker of conflict

smoothly cut in. "Don't bother. I've already made plans with a

before nodding.

gave a short nod and