Damon. “How do I get Aria back?” I asked, and Lucian stared at me, he moved back to take his seat, and sat down with his hands folded. Peterson stood behind him. “I thought you weren’t interested in it, had a change of mind?” Lucian studied me with his gaze for a moment, and I stared right back at him. Though my entire focus wasn’t on him. I don’t want to let her go anymore, the past two days without her in the house I felt it. I have no idea that I have gotten that attached to her. I go back home each day, hoping that she would have been there but I come home to an empty house. Aria wasn’t back. Has she forgotten? Or she would never come back again. I don’t want to give up on Aria and not this time, I thought I would be fine with her leaving, and doing whatever that she wants. I don’t think I would be able to do that anymore. I want to fight for it, fight for what I feel for her and I want to be selfish. I don’t care if these men wanted her, not even Lucian or anyone.I w
Aria. “Don’t do that, Kade.” I laughed and moved away from the water that was splitting out from the rocks, Kade was in it with just his black shorts.He came off the water and walked to pick up his shirt, he put it on and still held a smile on his face. He winked at me, and I chuckled. He reached out his hand to me, I placed mine on it. He pulled me close, and his hand went to my waist. I had my gaze lifted, staring at his face. His hair was wet, and water dripped down to his shirt. He leaned close, and his nose touched mine, he snuggled it softly.He gave me a teasing smile. “We should head back.” I hummed because I couldn’t form words at that moment, so I nodded at him. He let go of my waist and held my hand, he tightened our grip against each other and we ambled out of the area that had so many rocks. “I miss us so much.” He muttered as we walked. I smiled and kept waiting in silence. I stared at our hands intertwined together. He stopped walking and spun around, his other h
Aria. “Look Aria, I’m sorry.” Kade came after me but I didn’t turn or spare me a glance. I didn’t know where I heading, I just wanted to have some space between us. “Aria. I’m sorry!” He yelled as grasped my hand and stopped me, I tried to free my hand away from his hold but it wasn’t working. “Let go of me, Kade.” “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to do that. I got…” “I know you got angry because I was making plans for us and how we would leave this place but you don’t want that.” “I do want that, Aria. But I don’t see myself going there and I’m sorry that I tried to force myself.” “You didn’t just try. Kade. You forced me, I thought I could trust you, that’s why I stayed with you but this part of Kade that you are showing me is very annoying, and not the Kade that I used to know.” “I have apologized for it.” “Just by saying it!” I snapped. “Then what do you want me to do?” I stared at my hand, he was holding me firmly. “Let go of me,” I told him. He didn’t do anything to what I s
Aria. “Soren…” The word fell out of my mouth when I saw him, before he came out of the woods, he had shifted into his wolf form. He growled at Kade as he came closer, and shielded me with his body, I wiped the tears that were lingering on my eyes off completely. “Are you going to stop me, Soren?” Soren growled louder in response to Kade. The last time I saw him was when he took me out of the Pack and when we were meeting Kade before I could turn and find him, he was gone and left me with Kade. Then, he turned and stared at me. I held Soren’s gaze, and as if he was telling me to come with him. I nodded curtly and when he took a step, I did too. “Don’t let me fight you, Soren,” Kade said through gritted teeth. Soren halted and bared his teeth at Kade. That was a sign that he wasn’t afraid of him, and what Kade intended to do with him. Kade stood with his hand clenched at his side. “Don’t go with him, Aria. Stay where you are.” “You are not the one to decide for me,” I replied,
Damon. “…this area has been wiped out. They aren’t here.” I was drawing out the layout for our next movement and I called Lucian because I needed some information, he told me that they had the place covered, they were launching their attack that night and had targeted the area where they were. I drew a circle at the place, that’s where we were also headed, we needed to go there and save Aria from Rowan. The man had no idea what Aria was planning for him, when the time for his support came, he would be shocked when there was no one at his side and to take him down would be easy. “We need to get evidence, we ain’t just going there to fight in vain,” I said to Peterson, he straightened himself and looked at him, he wasn’t in his usual black pants and white sleeve shirt today. He was in a striped shirt and brown pants, he looked a bit different because I wasn’t used to seeing him wearing that. “Alpha. You were saying something.” I took my gaze away from him and pointed at the paper.
Aria. Kade met with us in the woods where we were hiding, and that was when we knew we were surrounded by the Soldiers of the Silverwolf Pack. I closed my eyes seeing the dead wolves dropping right before my eyes, the blood that was splashed against my face. I was held down, the moonlight showing faintly against the tree was the only thing that made me see the faces of the wolves as they fought. Neither Kade nor Soren was backing down from the fight, but the Soldiers that came from Alpha Rowan were too much than they could handle. “Aria.” I snapped my head around in fright when I heard Alpha Rowan’s voice. “If you go with me, I will order the men to stop, and then you will come with me, then I won’t have to lull them. Their safety depends on you at the moment.” He muttered with a smirk playing on his lips. “What do you say?” I stared at them fighting, Soren was wounded, and more soldiers were still coming at him, and Kade was surrounded by about three wolves. “You don’t have th
Aria. Ava went to check the window again, through the small opening, but she came back and shook her head. “There’s no sign of him coming.” She said dejectedly and walked back to meet me on the small bed, I was seated on the ground with my legs crossed. It was almost time, a guard had brought in the black dress that I would wear, and he would be back to take me to the Alpha. “I don’t think he will be able to make it.” She sighs. “If Alpha Damon doesn’t come, there won’t be any way for you to get out of this.” “I have to think of something.” “What can you think of? You are trapped here. Alpha Rowan would take you and like you said, you promised to do everything that he asked.” I nodded and gave her a side glance. “I brought this upon myself, I am quite aware of that,” I muttered and looked away. “That’s not what I meant.” She insisted, and I just kept quiet. I haven’t been able to close my eyes since I was brought here, nor have I even moved from where I was seated. I was just
Aria. I walked with the guard, and he led me to the garden of the Packhouse, it had been decorated, but I didn’t care much about it. But I noticed the difference when I stepped into the garden. He had a black suit on and was facing a small podium, and there was an elderly man that stood before him, he was the one grinning widely at me. I walked down to meet him, gripping my hand on my dress tight, the guard stopped walking and left. I was left alone. Alpha Rowan spun around and caught my stare, his upper lips quirked, and he crossed his hand at his back and watched me. I kept walking down to him, hiding every emotion that I had on my face. I said nothing and kept my head up as I walked down to meet with him. “There she is…” He chuckled. “You made the right decision to do this, Aria and this man standing over here will join us together, and you will get to me forever, and look, it’s a full moon. I guess our union has been approved by the Moon Goddess and it should be that way, do
Author’s Pov. The fight was fierce, and there was a lot of blood, the moon didn’t come out as they thought it would. It was rather a dark moment in the pack, as it was covered with blood. Aria didn’t want them to kill either of them but wanted them to face judgement instead, they were defeated and then captured. Rowan thought that he stood a chance against Aria and Damon but he wasn’t able to get past just Aria. They were made to face the council, and Aria charged the other Alphas who came with Rowan for conspiracy. He denied that everything played out was a lie even when they attacked the pack. Abby had come in, he was surprised to see her, she came in with the help of Kade who held her since she couldn’t quite manage on her own. She started to bring evidence of what Alpha Rowan had done to her, her parents were in the courthouse as well, they came and brought evidence against Rowan. He couldn’t speak anymore or could defend himself for what he had done. Aria came up and re
Aria. The night was dark, there wasn’t even a moon in sight, I had felt, that something was coming, and we were getting prepared. The pack had been busy and everyone seemed to be preoccupied with one thing or the other, we hadn’t had a chance to discuss with each other and we had all been busy. “…I think they are coming this way,” Liam said as he met with me at the balcony, we were all gathered at the pack house but at different places at the moment. “They couldn’t wait.” “Knowing Rowan, that’s how he acts, and he does that fast because that’s how he thinks as well.” “So he’s coming here thinking that we aren’t prepared for him or what?” “He could think that way, that he’s about to launch an attack on our pack, and get all of us in one go, that’s probably what he’s planning.” “Then he must be stupid thinking we are just going to wait for him to attack and not do anything about it.” I tapped my hand on the railings and we stared ahead into the night. “Why did you leave Rowan?”
Rowan. “…isn’t it about time you take the mask off your face?” I asked with a groan and walked over to my desk, I sat down and took the bandage off my shoulder. The wound that I had sustained was very deep, and it took time for it to heal completely, but still, it left a scar on my shoulder. “I’ve to get Aria back. I didn’t hear from Denon and that only means that she must’ve been awake. That’s the reason he didn’t come back to find me, else he would have done that.” I tossed the bandage on the ground and exhaled. He blinked his eyes at me and wasn’t saying much, I frowned at the reaction that I got from him. “I thought we were in this together.” “You never told me about your plan to get married to her.” He said. “Well, it didn’t quite work out, did it?” “You should’ve told me about it, but you didn’t.” “You are hiding something from me too ain’t you?” I raised my brow at him. “Why don’t you take off your mask and then we can know if it’s worth it to trust each other.” He ch
Aria. The Alpha of the Crimson Pack knew who I was, and he didn’t hesitate to allow me into his pack, the second that I arrived there with Damon. He was the one who saved me that night, that’s what he told me. We followed him into the Pack, and his office, his pack wasn’t as big as Damon’s Pack, and his pack members were minimal, I wondered how someone like him could hold that power when he wasn’t even equal to most of the strongest and powerful packs in the country. “…I wasn’t the one who had bound your powers.” He said, and I raised my brows at him. “Then who did?” “Have a seat.” He gestured to Alpha Damon and me. “It was your mother.” He replied, and I blinked my eyes at him. “My mother did that?” “Yes, she did it at the very last minute, and had your powers bound, she wanted to protect you from him.” “You sounded like you knew my mother.” “I did. She grew up in our pack,” “When her pack was under attack, she requested help, but it came late, and when we got there the pa
Aria. I stared at Damon after she had shamelessly left the house, he was quiet, and we were all seated in the living room. “…we went to bury him today,” Kade said he was the one who broke the prolonged silence. I took my gaze away from Damon and stared at him. “You should have woken me up,” I muttered. “We didn’t want to bother you, and knowing how you feel about Peterson. We thought it was better to leave you out of it and tell you after, it wasn’t nice there, the one you saw here was worse than what happened there. His family was so tucked up.” Kade sighed. “I never liked him but, I could tell he had a lot held in him, and must’ve been through so much. Seeing the family he came from, I kind of pity him a little bit, they didn’t care about him or even choose to respect him on his last day.” Kade clicked his tongue. “…all they did was blame the Alpha for what happened.” Damon excused himself from our midst and took the stairs to his bedroom. I wanted to go after him but Soren sh
Aria. Damon had my bathroom prepared and made me get into the bathroom, he carried me down to the bathroom and placed me on the bathtub, he washed my hair gently, I could feel his tender fingers on my scalp and didn’t want him to stop. I bathed and left the bathroom with him, and he chose the clothes that he wanted me to wear before I could rest for the night. Next, he served me breakfast, and after I was done eating, he lay next to me on the bed and watched me. His fingers stroked my hair affectionately. “I had my hopes up…” His voice came up, and I leaned closer to him. “I thought I might not be the one that will end up as your mate and even if it wasn’t me, I was going to do what I had to, but I did hope that I ended up being your mate. Aria.” He confessed and I touched the bridge of his nose with a smile on my face. “My wolf chose you.”“What about you? Did you choose me?” “I did. We both did, Damon.” My hand moved down to his chest and he heaved a sigh of relief. He pulle
Aria. I didn’t say another word before he took me into his arms, he squeezed me against his body, holding me so tight as if I would disappear if he let me go and he didn’t want that. When he pulled away, he cupped my face in his hand, staring intently into my eyes, and slowly his gaze fell on my lips, and I kissed it.I didn’t wait for him to take any initiative, I took it, my hand wrapped around his neck, and he kissed back passionately. My wolf wanted more, and she didn’t seem to be satisfied with just kissing him, she wanted more at this rate, taking all of him, wanting to mate with him and have him claim us as his mate. We wanted our scent to be mixed with his, which would make us off limits, and everyone would know that I was his mate. He pulled away from the kiss and grazed his finger on my lips. He smiled at me, and we pulled away from each other. I had forgotten that they were in the room with me, when I turned, the bedroom was empty, and I didn’t know when they left the
Aria. I could feel my wolf, I felt her, it felt like the first time in forever, and she purred inside me. My wolf. I exhaled, and glanced around the room, staring at the strange face that had poked her face into me. She grinned and waved her hand at me. “I’ve lost some strength, hope you don’t mind if I rest up a little.” Her dark eyes were sparkling, and she didn’t smell like a wolf. “I’m not a wolf.” “Did you read my thoughts?” “Kind of.” And smirked. I glanced around and found six pairs of eyes staring down at me with concern. “She needs some time to rest.” The girl said to them, and she moved away from the bed, giving me some space. Kade sat at my right-hand side, Soren was on the left beside me and Liam stood. I reached out my hand to Kade’s face and touched it, he smiled at me and kissed my hand. I touched Soren as well, and he gave me a soft smile. “Thank you for coming back to us, Aria,” Soren muttered, his eyes glistening with tears. This was the man that they sai
Damon. We got to the Pack just like she said we would, and we used the portal that she opened. I ordered the rest of the soldiers that were in the Silverwolf Pack to retreat, and bring the chopper home. The portal opened in the bedroom of Aria, she was still on the bed, and Soren’s head was on the bed, he was resting. He lifted his head when he heard some sounds and was shocked to find us in the room with a strange-looking lady who didn’t have shoes on. She waved at Soren, and the portal closed up. She made her way down to the bed, and we followed closely. “Alpha Damon.” Soren stared at us. “We brought a witch.” Liam replied, “…she’s here to help Aria, and there’s a chance that she will survive it.” “I heard witches were hard to find and compile with, and how were you able to get one.” “We had no choice, and waited for her to come to us.” Liam sighed and walked to take a seat. “Glad, she wasn’t as harsh as I thought.” “You thought witches are harsh?” She smirked at Liam. “Ai