From His Fake Wife to Billionaire Heiress (Riley and Lucas) novel Chapter 414

Chapter 414 Something She’d Lost a Long Time Ago

Chapter 414 Something She’d Lost a Long Time Ago

The skinny guy figured Riley would play like most girls-hanging back, chipping away from a distance, playing it safe

Instead, the on-screen female character blinked and reappeared right in his face.

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Riley’s playstyle was vicious and surgically precise. No flashy feints. No wasted moverment. Just brutal close-quarters execution.

Her speed was insane. Every combo chained into the next, landing perfectly inside the frame windows.

Three minutes. That was all it took before the screen exploded with “K.O.”

The skinny guy’s health bar got shredded to zero during her final aerial juggle combo.

He stared at his black screen like someone had hit him with a freeze spell. All that swagger evaporated. When he looked at Riley again, his eyes were full of fear, like he was staring at something not quite human.

“Who the hell are you?” he muttered.

Riley ignored him. She flexed her wrist, working out the slight stiffness from the high-speed inputs.

That feeling. Fingers gliding over the cool surface, brain and character moving on the same frequency. It surged up her spine like a flood that had been dammed up for years.

It was too familiar.

The rush of squeezing every drop of reaction speed out of herself under dim lights, chasing a target. It felt like she’d sat in this exact spot before, or somewhere just like it, fighting for the same kind of obsession.

Muscle memory hummed under her skin. Beyond the satisfaction of winning, something else stirred at the edges. Something she couldn’t name.

She lifted her head and glanced around the retro arcade. A vague sense of déjà vu clung to the place-stronger and more unsettling than anything Audrey had said about some old flame.

Audrey was absolutely losing her mind beside her.

“Holy crap! Riley! That was insane!” Audrey practically levitated after watching Riley pull off another comeback at critical health She grabbed Riley’s arm, words spilling out in a mess. “If I were a guy, I’d propose right now. Actually, forget that. I’m agirland! still want to fall in love with you!”

Riley’s fingers twitched from the shaking, but the match was already over.

She pulled her arm back, though her eyes stayed locked on the gold promotion icon glowing on the screen.

That bone-deep competitive hunger had woken up, and she realized she wasn’t just playing for Audrey anymore. It felt clawing back something she’d lost a long time ago.

Outside, a black Cullinan sat parked arrogantly at the mouth of the old street

Colin pushed open the passenger door and climbed out, already complaining, “Sebastian, i come to your office to mooch a hee funch. Why are you dragging me out to the old district? There’s nothing here but nostalgio and greasy diners, what’s so great about this place? Wait. Is your girlfriend here or something?”

Chapter 414 Something She’d Lost a Long Time Ago

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Sebastian locked the car and slid one hand into his pocket. The gesture was casual, but the cold edge rolling off him wasn’t.

He cut Colin a flat look. Just walk. You talk too much.”

Truth was, he wasn’t sure himself,

The noise on that call. The slightly guilty edge in Riley’s voice when she said she was “in the middle of something.” It had gotten under his skin.

He’d just canceled half an afternoon of meetings, gotten behind the wheel, and driven across half of Nexopolis.

Because his gut said she was here.

They walked deeper into the alley. An old convenience store had a beat-up flatscreen mounted outside, broadcasting the live feed from inside Cyber Nest.

A small crowd of college kids had gathered around it, pointing at the screen.

“Whoa, the finals are starting! That girl actually made it all the way through. That’s insane!”

“I heard she’s doing it to win that limited-edition cartridge for her boyfriend. That’s some next-level romance. I want a girlfriend like that.”

Colin caught a few words and couldn’t help himself. He pushed closer and squinted at the blurry feed, then snorted and turned back to Sebastian. “Listen to that. True love? What is this, a fairy tale? Those collector cartridges go for six figures on the resale market. She’s probably gonna cash it in. Kids these days know how to sell a story.”

Sebastian’s steps slowed.

His eyes swept across the TV screen, but the camera angle was bad. All he could catch was a slim figure sitting at the console, moving with sharp, efficient speed.

“Shut up,” he said, the words cold and clipped. He walked past the crowd and headed deeper into the alley.

Right then, two girls with high ponytails noticed the two men-Sebastian up

front most of all.

Sebastian’s face was impossibly striking. Standing there in that shabby old alley, he looked completely out of place in the mortal world.