Chapter 5

A heavy silence fell over the hospital room, as if time Itself had stopped.

Luigi, who’d been in the middle of ripping into his friends, froze at Derek’s words echoing through the

“Holy shit, man. Tell me you haven’t actually fallen for her.”

Tall for Ariana? What the fuck?

He rejected the thought with almost violent immediacy, as if the speed of his denial could erase the strange emotion crawling through his chest.

He had always been in love with Leila–what was Ariana in comparison? Nothing but collateral damage in his revenge scheme. A means to an end.

But the logic didn’t track. If she meant nothing, why had he lost his goddamn mind when he saw those men on top of her?

Even when drunk frat boys hit on Leila at parties, he’d never gone nuclear like that.

His mental wrestling match cast the room into uncomfortable silence.

friends exchanged knowing glances, visibly relieved by his reaction.

second. I thought you’d gone and caught feelings or something. Getting played by your own revenge game would be such a fucking waste. Leila would lose

was happening in his chest and stated. coldly: “I will never have feelings for Ariana Collins. Not in

they headed for the door. “She’s probably gonna wake

cleared out, Luigi slowly approached the bed, staring down at the unconscious

ghost–white, her brows slightly furrowed as if even

fingers moved of their own accord toward her cheek, but the moment they made

abruptly and stalked to the window, lighting a cigarette and taking a desperate drag, hoping the

her eyes, Luigi was alone

cup of water. Seeing her awake, he

turned her head away,

days, Larigi barely left the hospital, taking care of her with an attentiveness that surprised even

to take calls, and she noticed how his face softened when he returned, a gentleness in his expression that she’d once mistakenly thought

calls

clear eyes, she realized this pattern had existed throughout their entire relationship. The mysterious calls he’d always step away to take, claiming

understood that Leila had been on

in to change her

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