Chapter 545 – I'm Not Losing You to Greed
Her eyes didn't soften.
She didn't laugh.
She just reached out, brushed her fingers near the cut on his cheek, and then shook her head.
Mira was next.
She sat beside him, looking him over with a judgmental hum.
"I never thought a CFO could fight like a street thug," she muttered.
"You've seen me fight before."
"Yeah. But you weren't this messy."
Rava crossed her arms. "I've seen him mess up once. Like this. But… I've never seen you this mad, Lux."
That made him pause.
They weren't wrong.
That wasn't just a network fight.
That was rage. Legacy-fueled rage. Buried deep. Ripped out like a cracked ledger.
And yeah.
He was still shaking.
Still breathing harder than he should.
The potion was helping. The healing spells were doing their part. His dark magic pulsed softly beneath his skin like coiled threads patching him back together, one system scan at a time.
But that tremor?
The one in his bones?
That wasn't from blood loss.
