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?

should be surprised, insulted, or indifferent. Was this Arnold's

understand," she

as if expecting her to react differently, but when she offered nothing more, he

the call without another

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

is what you wanted, isn't

why did it feel like something was

making the sterile environment even more impersonal. Yet, in the midst of this cold atmosphere, she

out of the car, she noticed a familiar figure

Linda.

in a fitted coat, her arms crossed, Linda was leaning against her car, her

coming here when Grandma

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

glance as she walked into the

she found her grandmother sitting up in bed, a soft

old woman said, relief

Sarah sat beside her, gently adjusting the blanket.

conversation light, comforting. But in

Arnold hadn't arrived yet.

Linda was still

told her that was

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. He looked like a man who had

comment on

She didn't need to.

the tension. She glanced

hesitated for the first time. A flicker of conflict passed over his usually

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

carefully before nodding. "At least see her

a short nod and walked