Semua Bab A Surrogate For The Alpha: His Substitute Bride: Bab 121 - Bab 130

ZANDERI stepped out of Ronald's living room and slowly pulled the door shut behind me. My chest felt heavy.There was something about seeing him like that—sweating, shivering, muttering nonsense—that left a weird feeling in my stomach. Not pity. Just… shock.I leaned against the wall and stared down the gigantic gate of his house for a few seconds.I needed time to process everything I just witnessed but then again I didn’t have time. I had to move fast and I knew what I had to do.I reached into my pocket and pulled out my phone and my thumb hovered over Vivian’s name. Just seeing her name on the screen made something in my chest tighten.She was probably still angry. She had every reason to be. I should have listened to her.I pressed her name and lifted the phone to my ear.It rang once. Twice. Three times and I waited hoping she would pick up.But she didn’t. The call rang out and ended.I let out a long sigh and ran my hand down my face. My heart felt tight in my chest. I wasn’t

ZANDERWhen Ronald’s weak hand shot out from the bed and grabbed my wrist.The touch was shaky but strong enough to hold me in place.I looked down at Ronald, shocked that he was even aware of what I was doing.I expected him to say something like, “Don’t touch that,” or “Get away from my laptop.”Hell, I thought this was it.That this was the moment where he would finally drop the act, admit he’d been faking the whole damn illness just to get attention or lure us into some kind of trap. That all this sweating and shivering and panicking was just a performance.Because how could someone be this out of it one second, and then suddenly grab my hand the next?I stared at him, waiting. But what he said next threw me off completely.His lips trembled, and his cracked voice whispered something I didn’t expect to hear.“Vivian…” He said.I blinked as my brows pulled together in confusion.“What?” I muttered, thinking I’d misheard him.But he said it again. This time louder and more desperate

VIVIAN I looked at Ronald, lying there on the ground and groaning. His nose was bleeding, and his lips were swollen from the punches I gave him.But even with how broken he looked, I still didn’t feel sorry for him, and neither did I trust him.My heart wanted to doubt him again. My brain kept whispering that he was a liar. A manipulator. A backstabber. That he would still try to do something bad to us after we heal him. But I had to shut those voices out.I took a deep breath and forced myself to push all my doubts away.It wasn’t easy. In fact, it was one of the hardest things I had ever done.Because I knew what Ronald did. I remembered the pain, the betrayal, the tears that burned my cheeks when I realized that Ronald had cheated on me and asked for a divorce. And also that he had worked with the Circle to destroy me.But I had to let that go, for now. I had to put all that anger aside. Because if I wanted my magic to work, I couldn’t carry that kind of doubt and malice against

VIVIAN Ronald just stood there in front of me, staring at his hands like they were something new… like they weren’t part of his body before at all.His fingers moved slowly as he turned his palms over, studying every inch like he didn’t trust what he was seeing.It was strange watching him like that and my brows furrowed. He looked amazed, shocked even, like a man who had been blind his whole life and suddenly opened his eyes for the first time.He wiggled his fingers, then lifted both hands into the air, almost as if he expected them to vanish. Then he began checking other parts of his body.I crossed my arms and stood quietly, just watching him.His chest rose and fell with deep, steady breaths now unlike before. Color was also coming back into his skin, and he didn’t look like death anymore. He looked alive. Completely healed.After a few more seconds, he finally turned to me, with his eyes wide and almost shining with disbelief.“You healed me…” he whispered like he couldn’t beli

VIVIAN I tried to pull myself together. I didn’t want him to worry more than he already was. So I nodded and forced a little smile, even though my chest still felt tight.“Yeah,” I said quietly. “Everything is fine.”He looked at me for a second longer, like he wasn’t fully convinced, but he didn’t push. Instead, he shifted his attention back to Ronald.Ronald, who looked a little too calm now.He held my phone in his hand and extended it to me like it was a gift. “It’s done,” he said, with a strange calmness in his voice. “The videos are in your phone now.”I didn’t take my eyes off him as I reached for it. I checked the screen quickly. There was a folder named “Recovered” in my files, and it had a bunch of video files inside it. I hadn't opened them yet, but just seeing them there made my heart feel relieved.I had waited so long for this moment. Too long.Zander moved closer and looked down at the screen too. Then he turned his sharp eyes to Ronald.“Now delete all the videos from