Nine Hot Therians and Their Only One Queen novel Chapter 945

Chapter 945 Let’s Go In First

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“There are too many people around, too many eyes watching. Since Mr. Rafael here get hurt, why don’t I have a couple of guards escort him to a side room to get patched up?

“Emma is waiting for you, huntress. You should go find her.”

Rafael’s already pale face drained of even more color.

His lashes trembled violently, and he flinched back half a step like a startled fawn, his blood streaked fingers clenching tight

around the thin fabric of his shirt.

‘No, please, don’t trouble yourself…”

Rafael’s voice came out low and shaking, and through sheer effort he forced out a smile more heartbreaking than tears themselves.

‘This gentleman is right. Someone as lowborn as me really shouldn’t be walking in there beside you, Ms. Aria.

‘If I run into those same nobles who stole my star coins again, it would only embarrass you.

‘I… I should just go. I’ll find some other way to earn money for my brother’s medicine. Even if that means selling my blood on the black market…”

His voice faded to almost nothing by the end, and he turned to drag his frail body away, his retreating figure the very picture of misery and despair.

Rafael fully expected Aria to call out to him, to reach out and stop him from leaving.

But Aria didn’t.

The moment she heard the words “black market” and “blood, she only frowned slightly.

This male already looked frail and thin as it was. How could he possibly survive selling blood in a place like that?

She glanced at him again, and it struck her as such a waste for someone this beautiful to throw his life away like this.

“Milper,” Aria said, turning to her mate. “Get someone to treat his wounds and help him recover his star coins. I’m going to find

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Emma now.

“Once you’ve handled that, ask him if he’s willing to come. If he is, bring him to wait for me on the ship.”

With that, Aria didn’t spare Rafael another glance and headed off with her other partners to find Emma.

Watching Aria walk away without the slightest hesitation, Rafael’s lowered gaze suddenly went rigid.

Deep within those pitiful, glasslike eyes, a flash of shock and something far colder flickered by in an instant.

This wasn’t how any of this was supposed to go.

According to everything he’d gathered about her, Aria was supposed to be soft hearted and hopelessly weak for a handsome face.

Seeing him look this beautiful and this pitiful, combined with that perfectly calculated sob story, should have sent her storming straight into that banquet hall, dragging him along as the wronged victim demanding justice.

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Chapter 945 Let’s Go In First

Why had she simply walked away on her own?

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Rafael had believed his performance was flawless, but he’d clearly underestimated this female who’d grown up surrounded by real power since childhood.

Sure, Aria had a weakness for beautiful faces, and yes, watching a gorgeous man cry did soften her heart somewhat. But she was far from some brainless fool who only cared about looks.

As the little princess of the Aurelia bloodline, she’d grown up navigating the cutthroat social circles of Central Planet her entire life. She’d seen every conceivable scheme males used to claw their way up the social ladder.

This male had appeared at far too convenient a moment, and their collision had happened at far too perfect an angle.

Even the timing of the device shattering, that perfectly placed cut on his finger drawing just enough blood, and that whole tragic tale about a distant star system, a dying brother, and selling blood on the black market, it all read like à carefully staged performance.

Every single beat had been engineered to manipulate her sympathy and protective instincts.

Aria understood perfectly well that this man had targeted her on purpose, hoping to use the encounter as a stepping stone to climb higher.

Males like this were a dime a dozen across Central Planet.

Aria didn’t particularly mind the attempt, honestly, since Rafael’s face really was stunning enough to hit every note of her personal

taste.

If this male proved sensible and cooperative, she wouldn’t mind going along with it, purely for that gorgeous face of his.

But there was no way she’d set Emma aside for some male she’d just met.

That was completely off the table.

Males could always be replaced. Emma could never be.

And with a face that beautiful, if she brought him along to meet Emma…

Aria didn’t think Emma would actually fall for Rafael’s charm.

She was terrified her older brother would find out and personally split her in half for the offense.

Outside the banquet hall, as Aria walked off with the rest of her partners, only Milper remained behind, following orders, along with Rafael, whose finger still dripped blood.

Milper studied Rafael, an unmistakable flicker of mockery and cold amusement crossing his eyes.

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