The Alpha's Mafia Luna novel Chapter 111

5:17 a.m.

The shadows in my bedroom felt too still. I lay there, not breathing, listening for something–anything.

Nothing.

Just the low hum of the city outside and the occasional flicker of passing cars bleeding through the curtains.

I blinked slowly.

Sleep wasn’t coming back.

Again.

I threw the blanket off and rolled out of bed, my body stiff from hours of lying still. My feet hit the cold floor with a soft thud. I padded out to the kitchen

versized tee and socks, rubbing my eyes.

s closed, but her bag was on the couch. And next to it–her phone.

Please be-

Nope. Locked. Her wallpaper wa

untain range, clean and unbothered. Just like her lately.

I tried her old code: 0821

Denied.

I tried 1998, her!

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Naia offered me a ride to work.

I said yes, but my stomach turned the whole way.

She hummed a little in the driver’s seat–some upbeat pop song I didn’t know–and kept tapping the steering wheel with her nails. Not in rhythm. Just

tapping.

“Your phone’s been lighting up a lot lately,” I said casually, watching her from the corner of my eye.

‘Mm. Group chat,” she said. “My old theater crew. They never shut up.”

‘You haven’t done a show in like, three years.”

‘Doesn’t mean they’re dead.” She smiled, but it didn’t reach her eyes. “We’re still friends.”

nodded. “Cool.”

The rest of the drive was silent except for the radio.

11:08 a.m.

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1

At the office

was in spreadsheet hell, trying to sort through billing inconsistencies for a project I didn’t even care about. Everything blurred together.

Lucas messaged me.

Lucas: “Lunch? My treat. You need air.”

[typed back:

‘Only if there’s dessert involved.”

Lucas: “Always. Pick you up in 107”

I didn’t wait to answer. I just stood, grabbed my bag, and left before I could change my mind.

Lunch with Lucas

The place was a modern glass restaurant called Milo’s sleek, overpriced, and full of people in tailored upts acting like they were better thash versi

Lastas deted a thicken pealt sandwich and insisted I try the butternut squash soup because I fix your out.

“I don’t think soup her that much per 1 miltered

“Then you haven’t had this unið ”

The waiter broogte water, and turns set forward with that cery smile Halsters made people text bala

“Bo,” he said, “you’re back in you full badets rousine, ive spend filing repose bike you’re on calleine uudi

I chuckled. “That’s the surest way wapone’s mer told me i luk like Em

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“Hey, no judgment. I overcompensate daily. That’s why I talk to my plants. They tell me I’m doing great.”

I laughed. A real one this time. “You name them?”

“Obviously. My aloe is named Regina George because she’s gorgeous but sharp. And my ficus? Kevin. Solid guy. Doesn’t gossip.”

I sipped the soup. And okay… it was heavenly.

Lucas leaned back. “There it is.”

“What?”

“You smiled like you meant it. That’s rare these days.”

I stared into the bowl. “It’s nothing.”

“Is it?”

My fingers

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th spread across the back of my neck. Familiar. Too

noticed. “You okay?”

nodded too quickly. “Yeah. Just… soup’s hot.”

He frowned.

But my heart thundered.

Damian.

The mark praised again, tingling!

And then-

“You should

His volen

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“It brings out that spark in you.”

My breath caught.

“You don’t know what looks good on me anymore,” I hissed under my breath.

Lucas blinked. “What?”

I looked up too fast. “Sorry–just thinking out loud.”

Lucas’s brows pinched slightly, but he dropped it.

I clenched my fists under the table.

“You think you’re hiding from me?” Damian’s voice murmured, smooth as honey laced with venom. “You’re glowing. I always see you.”

I forced myself to chew. Swallow. Smile.

Pretend.

But I could still feel him.

Like fingertips on my spine.

8:16 p.m.

Home

Naia walked in, smelling… different.

She kicked off her heels and dropped her purse.

Something about the way she moved was off–tense, jittery.

“You’re home early,” she said, walking to the fridge.

“It’s eight.”

She shrugged. “Could’ve sworn it was earlier?

I got up from the couch.

“Where were you?”

She looked over her shoulder. “Out”

“With?”

“Friends,”

“Which ones?”

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Naia narrowed her eyes. “Why are you grilling me?”

“I just want honesty.”

“You don’t get to act like I owe you explanations when you’ve been cold and weird for weeks.”

My chest burned. “You’ve been lying to me.”

“I haven’t.”

“You’ve been hiding your phone, leaving at odd hours, and now you smell like-”

“What “”

“Like wolf.”

Her face froze.

And that’s when I knew I was right.

I took a step forward. “Who is he?”

“Don’t do this, Serene.”

“Then tell me the truth.”

She licked her lips. “I can’t.”

“Then we’re done.”

Naia flinched like I slapped her.

“I’m not betraying you.”

“Feels like it.”

Her face twisted–sharp, almost ugly. “You think everything revolves around you, don’t you? That I can’t have a life without checking in with Queen Serene,”

“Don’t.”

“You want hon

esty? Fine. Yes. I’ve been meeting someone. Yes, he’s a wolf No, I won’t tell you who And no, I don’t care if you don’t trust me

1 didn’t answer.

just turned, walked into the guest room, and slammed the door.

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