The Black Swan's Final Revenge Pirouette: The 99th Game Was Mine All Along by Kylie Homme

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.

visibly relieved by his

“Jesus, you had us worried for a 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 her shit if she thought you’d

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

relaxed, laughing as they headed for the door. “She’s probably gonna wake up soon

they’d cleared out, Luigi slowly approached the bed, staring down

furrowed as if even in

moved of their own accord toward her cheek, but the moment they made contact, he yanked back

taking a desperate drag,

eyes, Luigi was

beside her bed, holding a cup of water. Seeing her awake, he

didn’t answer, just turned her head away, refusing to

few days, Larigi barely left the hospital, taking care of her with an attentiveness

his face softened when he returned,

now–those calls were

entire relationship. The mysterious calls he’d always

blinded by her devotion. Now she understood that Leila had been on the other end

different doctor came in to