Aria. The plan that I had was for Alpha Damon to meet with Rowan in his pack, but I wasn’t quite sure it would stop him from coming after me and if he found out who I was, he wouldn't stop. I stood by the door of his bedroom as he dressed, he was about to leave the pack, he didn’t argue with him when I told him to go to Alpha Rowan. “Missing me already?” He asked, and smirked at him. I rolled my eyes at him, and walked closer to him. I tiptoed and helped him to fix his tie on his suit. He stared down at me. “You look pretty up close.” He muttered and I smiled at him and took my hands away from his tie and folded my arms. “What should I say when I get there? I was waiting for him to make a move at me or do anything stupid.” “And then what are you going to do?” I asked, and he lowered himself to my height. “What do you think I would do?” I shook my head. “That would cause a war between the packs, and it would lead to a disaster and I might not be able to do anything.” “Anything
Aria. Lucian had been seated for a couple of minutes without saying a word, and I came back from the kitchen, holding a glass of water because he asked for that. I gave it to him, and sat close to him. He chugged down the glass of water, and kept the empty glass cup on the table. “Thanks.” He muttered. My hand reached out to touch his face, I brushed my finger against a bruise that was healing. He took my hand away gently from his face but he didn’t let go of it. “Did you get into a fight?” He chuckled and shook his head. “I’m too old for that.” “Then, how did you get that?” I pointed at the bruise on his face. “It was an accident.” I didn’t believe that, and he knew I wasn’t going to believe such a lie that he was telling me. “I can see the look in your eyes, you don’t believe me do you?” “I think you know the answer to that. It wasn’t just an accident was it?” I inquired. “How did you even see that?” I was quite observant, and I had stared at him for a while even at the
Aria. We took a walk around the pack in the cool evening, Lucian was sipping a juice, his eyes were everywhere around the Pack. We talked about everything except the pending issue in the Pack and his work as a strategist. I never knew he could talk this much, he had this cold demeanor every time I saw him in Silverwolf Pack. We stopped at a park, there was a bench there, and in front of the park was an ice cream stall. Lucian went to get some of those ice cream and came back to sit with me on the bench. He handed one of them to me, and I took them from his hand, our hands brushing against each other. “His pack is beautiful.” He said in a low voice, and stared away from me. I hummed. “But I don’t think you should get that close to him. I think you’re smart, Aria. Resilient and strong, you shouldn’t let him use you. That’s one of his plans.” “I don’t think he’s using me.” “You don’t know him well enough.” He remarked, and I stared at the ice cream that was melting in my hand.
Damon. “I don’t trust her, Alpha or rather I don’t like her.” Peterson grumbled when we got to the Silverwolf Pack. “Why would you agree to do what she asked you to, it doesn’t make any sense.” “You trust me, don’t you Alpha?” I asked and tilted my head to the side, and glanced at him. “I do trust you, Alpha.” “Then you don’t have to worry about Aria.” His eyes were fixed on me the whole time he was speaking and while we drove to the front gate of the Pack house. The guards at the gate came to check the car, and bowed when they came close. “Tell your Alpha, we’ve come to pay a visit.” Peterson said as he looked away from me, and faced the guard. “Yes, Beta.” The guard nodded, and went out of sight. I took in a deep breath, and looked out the window. Though I could feel my Beta’s eyes on me. “Ain’t you bothered?” He asked. “About what?” I turned, and looked at him. “The girl.” “I have never brought anyone close without being sure of what I am doing…” The gate opened, and
Alpha Rowan. I swept everything off my desk with my hand angrily, Alpha Damon showing up in my pack was threatening enough. I wanted to be the first to do that but he beat me to it and came here instead. Why did he come here and cause trouble? He should have stayed away, why did he have to show up here and threaten me?Aria was his mate, how was that possible?Or it was all his plot to keep her, that girl doesn’t have a wolf in her, and Damon couldn’t keep someone like her beside him, a strong Alpha like him needs a strong Luna to stand by his side and not someone like Aria. It’s been two days since Damon came to the Pack and even when I thought about it, it pissed me off more than anything else. I collapsed back on my seat, and growled. If I had gotten his support, I would have been way through getting what I wanted, and what I would have been thinking was getting at the top of all Alphas but he had decided to ruin it. A knock on the door got me annoyed and I yelled at whoever
Alpha Rowan. “Alpha Rowan, you wanted me to get Kade. I brought him over.” Liam voiced outside the door of my office. I have been seated there for the past couple of minutes since that stranger with a mask on said those things to me. He didn’t leave yet he was behind on one of my shelves, seated there waiting to listen to the conversation we were going to have with Kade. Tapping my fingers on the desk, I wasn’t angry, I was bothered and that was more annoying than anything else I could think of. “Come in.” I said with a grunt after some seconds of thoughts, and the door opened. Liam came in with Kade and I straightened myself against the seat, and roamed my eyes over Kade. He stood firmly, his hands crossed at his back, his head slightly tilted downward. I took my gaze over to Liam, he stood some feet away from Kade.I cleared my throat. “…you must be wondering the reason why I called for you. Well. There has been a threat to my position, and I think Alpha Damon is plotting to ta
Aria. Damon came back late. “How was the meeting with Alpha Rowan…?” I asked Damon when he came back to the house without his Beta. The maid welcomed him, and took his suit jacket from his hand, and a briefcase. “Have you been up waiting?” He said and stopped in front of me. “Were you worried about me or how the meeting with Alpha Rowan was…” He asked with a cocky smile, lowering himself to my height. “You came late, I was worried. I thought the meeting wouldn’t take much time.” I said while locking my gaze with him.“It didn’t. We had other things to do.” He straightened himself, and stroked his fingers over my hair. “Were you able to eat dinner?” He shook his head slowly. “I will have your dinner in the microwave and serve you.” I muttered and was about to turn towards the kitchen when he reached out to grab my wrist and pulled me into his arms, and my head hit against his chest.His hand gently moved over the small of my back and rested there. I was frozen for a moment in h
Aria. I was informed that Soren was at the house, it has been two days since Damon returned from the Silverwolf Pack, and he had been distanced since that night. He never told me what work he was doing that kept him busy, and not being able to see him despite the fact that we were in the same house. Peterson was different, I could tell clearly that he was avoiding me, he doesn’t talk to me and treated me as if I was fucking invisible and he doesn’t even get close. I came downstairs, and met with Soren pacing around the living room. He stopped when he saw me, and dropped his hands to his side. He forced a smile on his lips, it was something he did when he was uncomfortable. “You don’t look too good, Aria. Are you sick?” He strode over to me, and placed a hand over my forehead. I shook my head at him and took his hand away, but he held my hand and didn’t let go. “You look pale.” “I wasn’t able to get some sleep last night.” I muttered, and he stretched out his arms, I fell int
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