All Chapters of Healing The Devil I Once Loved: Chapter 191 - Chapter 200

ZARIA Wang’s voice pulled me back. “What are you thinking about?” I opened my eyes. “Nothing important.” He studied my face for a long moment. “You’re still shaking a little.” I tucked my hands between my knees. “It’s just the adrenaline from the meeting. I’ll be fine once I eat something.” I expected him to say something more but he didn’t push. Instead, he stood up and went to the kitchen to make us both some tea. I watched him move around, so gentle and stable, and my chest ached. He deserved better than this mess I had dragged him into. He deserved a woman who wasn’t constantly looking over her shoulder, waiting for Renzo to appear and ruin everything. When he came back with the mugs I took one and wrapped my hands around it to have something to hold, the warmth helped a little. “Zaria,” he said quietly, sitting beside me again. “If proposing to you would keep Renzo away, even for a little while, would you let me do it?” I didn't know how he interpreted the e

Zaria Who would believe he was the same man who had done something sinful to me?I licked my suddenly dry lips. “I’m here to work. I figured I should keep myself busy before I lose my mind in an apartment I never asked for.”Renzo barked out a laugh, but it didn’t reach his cold grey eyes. Flecks of blue shimmered in them, giving him an eerie look.I shuddered.“Zaria, do you enjoy seeing me that much?”I blinked, slightly taken aback.What?“Not really. I’m just fulfilling the contract. But you… Why are you here? Looking for another excuse to get my attention like you did the other night?”…who had fucked me just the day before.And yet here he was again, standing like he owned the entire street. “No.”“Then I should be asking you that,” I shot back, folding my arms as if I had all the patience in the world. But my chest was already tightening from the mere sight of him. “Didn’t know this event came with unwanted pests.”His jaw ticked.Wow. That really got to him.“I could say the

Zaria Wasn't he doing too much? “Relax,” I said again, softer this time.“I am relaxed,” he replied, still glancing around. I snorted. “You look like you’re about to kill someone.”“Only if necessary.”That made me grin.God.This night was going to be interesting and dangerous and it was exactly how I liked it.__________________Wang was suspicious and for once, I didn’t blame him.The moment my so-called title was thrown into the air like bait, I could feel the curiosity and judgment immediately. It wasn’t obvious, but it was there in the way conversations tilted, in the way bodies subtly turned, and in the way people who had been minding their business suddenly had nothing better to do than drift a little closer to me and Wang.Jesus. They were not just curious, they were hungry for a new story.I took another sip of my drink, slower this time as if I wasn’t already calculating how fast things could go wrong.“Miracle Healer,” someone murmured not too far from me with a tone la

Renzo Zaria was beautiful.I had been watching her for the better part of twenty minutes from where I stood by the far pillar with a red mask on my face and a glass of something I hadn't touched in a while in my hands.She was good.I'd give her that much.The circle around her had been growing, pulling in more bodies the way these things always did when someone was interesting.But Zaria… she hadn't stopped smiling. However, she couldn't hide those emotions from me. Her fingers had curled at her side whenever the woman said something particularly. Sometimes, she'd reach up quickly to wipe beneath her eye before lifting her glass again as nothing happened.I frowned.I wasn't watching because I cared, specifically, but because I had come here tonight for one reason and one reason only. And watching a woman get slowly picked apart by a roomful of people who didn't know her was not it.That part should be reserved for me alone.I turned to Elix, who was standing a half step behind me

Renzo “Shut up,” Hawk muttered, though the corner of his mouth twitched like he was barely holding something in.That alone should have warned Silva that whatever they had in mind wasn’t the kind of “play” he was expecting.It probably wasn't what I had in mind, either. Silva’s gaze darted between the two of them, and suspicion finally began to creep in. He straightened slightly on his knees, ignoring the gun still pressed to the back of his head.“What exactly do you mean by that?” he asked, but not quite as smoothly as before.Asher’s smile widened.“Oh, you’ll see,” he said lightly.I leaned back in my chair, folding my arms across my chest, already feeling the anticipation curl in my gut. Hawk and Asher together were a special kind of chaos. They didn’t just hurt people… they ‘enjoyed’ dismantling them piece by piece, in ways that didn’t always leave visible damage but always left them broken.They were broken themselves and would never let that opportunity to make others broke