Aria's pov; And then, in the blink of an eye, the new week came and I had long been dreading it- dreading having to see Damien get married or entangled with Esmeralda. It was the kind of feeling I never knew I had not until that day when Esmeralda had made the announcement. Did I really have the right to feel betrayed about all of this when I was also carrying someone else's child? And when I also had unclear feelings for the said father of this baby? No matter how hard I tried to convince myself, it just didn't sit right with me and I didn't need anyone to tell me how much truth I was turning a blind eye to. To make matters worse, Damien was yet to show himself to me since the time Esmeralda had made the announcement. If it wasn't because no one else had heard from me, I would have thought he was intentionally avoiding me but after pretending to blend in with the students in school, it was easy to get this much information. As I sat in front of the lake, wondering and broo
Aria's pov: "Aria, look at me," said Damien, pulling my hand with just the right amount of force and stepping into my space, allowing our eyes to meet. With him speaking so gently to me, I was only reminded of how selfish I was being when I had no right to feel how I was feeling now. Why should I be feeling bad because he was getting wed to someone else when I was carrying someone else's child too? The more I tried to think of a better explanation to this, the clearer it became and it was difficult to admit that this was how I felt. "Damien, you are going to become a married man soon enough. You shouldn't be here with me and you shouldn't even be feeling sorry towards me for something that isn't your fault. Have you forgotten, there's nothing between us. We're just friends," I said, laughing slightly at the last part and finally meeting his eyes. My words were a bid to not only convince him but to convince myself and open my eyes clearly to the one thing I was beginning to
Third person's POV; Even the lake seemed to agree with the silent words from Damien; a gentle promise of things to be done that kept sending Aria back to the position she thought she had bypassed. At first, the complicated feelings for Damien had seemed like something that occured as a result of having physical contact with him. She had believed it to be something that was going to just die down in no time- at most, in a few days and at the appearance of Ronald, the feelings turned into guilt before going back to the usual, as if to tell her that she hadn't done anything wrong. "Aria, won't you look at me and tell me to my face that we should stay friends?" asked Damien, gripping her chin in his hand and gently forcing her to stare up at him. His jaw ticked with anger, with obvious tension in his shoulder and the veins that lined his arms down to his fingers ticked and moved about, as if threatening to burst out. As for Aria, hearing him speak to her like this only made
Aria's pov; The scenery around me kept changing in the blink of an eye, representing how fast Damien's chauffeur was driving. My hands remained seated on my thighs while I tried not to speak or cause attention to myself. Thinking about what had happened back at the lake, my mind had pulled into an overdrive, making it difficult for me to think straight. I had been to the lake just to clear my thoughts but rather than leaving there with my thoughts clear and calm, I had left with my thoughts in disarray while trying not to think too much about what had happened. With Damien sitting right beside me, it didn't make things any easier and instead, not only my head but my heart kept skipping beats each time he moved to even say a word or just to look at me. Throughout the short ride back to the club, I was uncomfortable and couldn't say a word- with my only option being - pretending as if everything was fine and the kiss was all shades of normal. No, that hadn't been norm
Third person's POV; Back at the Paxton pack, Ronald couldn't be any more happy to be going to Damien's wedding. Not that he held any sort of loving feeling for him in the first place but the thought that nothing could ever happen between he and Aria again was what brought great joy to him. "Are these all I need?" he asked the maid standing in front of him with her hands folded in front of her and her head curtly bowed. If more attention were to be paid to hard, it wouldn't be difficult to notice the way her legs shook in fear and the small wobbling of her lips while she forced herself to speak. "Yes Alpha," she answered fearfully. Nodding to Ronald's question was the biggest mistake any of them could make and fearing him was the best thing they could ever do. Even Lucas who stood with a pen and a jotter, behind the couch where Ronald was sitted was smart enough to know these things and give the necessary space. With a finger tracing the edge of his lip while his ga
Aria's POV; We've always been told that there were only three options; life, death and the one in between. But no one ever told me that there was more to it. That there was more to not knowing the difference between all three or that there was something else hidden in all of this. I could vividly remember the repetitive stab to my stomach, the one to my chest and also the exact pain I felt while experiencing all of these. Yet, could someone tell me why I was sitted on a flower bed, watching a kid that looked just like a mixture of Ronald and Damien run around the beautiful environment? Things would have been much easier to decide if it felt more like heaven or the afterlife but guess what? It was none of these two. As real as it seemed, every pain that rocked through my body and my bones was the one thing I needed to make me aware that this wasn't real. The kid running around me happily wasn't real and neither was the blue flowery gown I was wearing. You know what el
Third person's POV; One week- one week had gone by and the only words Ronald kept hearing was, "We are trying our best and hoping she wakes up as soon as possible." Each time, these words struck harder and kept sounding more like a death sentence. Like always, he sat by the bedside, staring at the sickly pale face of the one laying on it. She had a tube connected into her mouth that assisted with her breathing but for Ronald, watching her like this was a huge pain to him. "Alpha, you have to come to the pack. The elders are already going crazy enough and demand to know why you kept their candidate locked up in the pack's cell," said Lucas who had been by his side throughout the whole ordeal. Just like his boss, he appeared just as haggard but their only difference was that Lucas still had the decency to trim his hair compared to the former. From his oddly buttoned shirt, down to his rough pants which looked like they had been dug out of a pile of clothes abandoned f
Third person's POV; The smell of blood and the tangy smell of mold filled the air, creating a suffocating feeling. Along with the silence and the darkness, it was the perfect spot to commit a crime. A crime that was worth taking a life for. Accompanying this strong yet uncomfortable setting were the echoes of sounds that bounced off the walls, a reminder that there were other things much scarier than a horror movie. "Haaaaaaaaa!" A loud scream resounded before echoing loudly. The shrillness of the scream was the last thing that ought to be heard in a place that already permeated this type of feeling. In one of the dark cells, that had scratch marks sitting on the wall like a proud mark of how much violence had gone down here. The only sort of light in here was the dim one that hung above the roof, its presence calm yet powerful, giving off the feeling of a predator. Slowly, the solemn sound of chains rattling in the cell was like setting off the timer of a bomb. Th
Aria's pov; "Now, now, now, mate. I know you want to say it just as much as I want you to. You don't have to hide from me. I'd give you everything you ever wished for," Ronald said, still smiling while my anger was slowly starting to get to the roof. There was one thing about the way he stared into my eyes that made it appear like he knew about all the things I was hiding no matter how well I tried to do it from him. To me, it was like I didn't have my privacy to myself, with an intruder barging in at the most unpleasant time. "Shouldn't you be busy with college work or something? I'm guessing you don't have time to talk with me now," I said with a scornful laugh while trying to force my chin out of his hand but as it turned out, I seemed to have overestimated how much power he held within those fingers because after several attempts at trying to move my chin from his hold, it ended up being useless. Frustrated, I squeezed my eyebrows tightly to show my dissatisfaction,
Aria's pov: Waking up from the dream, I stared around me only to see that it was as silent as it could get. Even the machines were nowhere in sight and I couldn't help but frown before taking a look at my body to see if I didn't really need help as I had thought in the first place. "Yes, it's intact. Nothing is missing," I said to myself in confusion and my sudden attempt at trying to stand up was an action that made it appear like I was making the biggest mistake of my life. Surprisingly, standing up on one foot wasn’t as difficult as I thought it was going to be after a month of not moving. If at all, it only made me seem like my body was more flexible and as it was, it seemed like I was walking on the clouds. “This is so easy. Not even as difficult as I thought it would be,” I said, chuckling to myself and feeling very proud that I didn’t have to rely on anybody to be able to do this. Previously, upon waking up, there was this sudden urge I had to be able to walk with
Aria's pov; Not again. Not this same scene again. This wasn't where I wanted to be and even the universe must be aware and was only using this to mock me. I didn't expect to find myself here again, not after collapsing in the ward again, only few minutes after waking from my already long consciousness. The scene I didn't even want to re enact slowly replayed in front of me like a movie. Each and everytime I had painted images in my head, there happened to be a point where a gentle tweak was going to happen and there after, there was a possibility of everything changing, like a whole new scene. As I sat back on the recliner chair, thinking about the past of the thoughts I had back then when I had no idea that things like this wasn't going to happen, a smile spread on my face just thinking about it. What had I pictured my first time with my lover was going to be? At that period, most ladies my age had all had their fair share of what sex was but yet, there I was, in a who
Aria's pov; I don't know what had been existing in this ward since I woke up but its presence couldn't be compared to the one that I had first felt. I could feel the doctor cease to stop breathing and his eyes were as wide as saucers, gaping at me, looking star struck. Yes, I wouldn't have thought the present me would be saying something like this now but it couldn't be helped. "A...ria? It's me. Ronald," Ronald said in the most gentle voice I've ever heard him speak in but I'd be a fool to fall for this again. Thinking about it, where had he been up until the moment I told him about being pregnant and till I lost the child, thanks to his jealous lover? Without saying a word, I chose to remain quiet, ignoring the lies escaping his mouth and choosing to focus on me instead. "Get out!" I said again, this time, louder and sharper than before. A small gasp from the doctor had me knowing he was still here, frozen in shock but I couldn't be bothered about his presence,
One month later Aria's pov; Eternal darkness was the one thing I've been seeing repeatedly. I had no idea how much time had passed and neither did I want to. During my long wait in the darkness, I had been in enough pain to keep me awake. Despite this, not a single voice had I heard and not even a sign of light. Darkness was the one word I could use to describe my current state. "Would she be waking up anytime soon?" I heard a voice asked calmly. And for the first time, I felt my body come alive. Not because of the words of the person but because after a long time, when I thought all hope was lost, I finally heard one voice and this time, it wasn't just my wolf trying to talk to me or me trying to encourage myself. It was real and I could feel it. I tried to force my eyes open just like every other time, but only tried harder while hoping on the stars that there was going to be a change. I couldn't feel my eyes and neither could I feel any other part of my body b
Third person's POV; The smell of blood and the tangy smell of mold filled the air, creating a suffocating feeling. Along with the silence and the darkness, it was the perfect spot to commit a crime. A crime that was worth taking a life for. Accompanying this strong yet uncomfortable setting were the echoes of sounds that bounced off the walls, a reminder that there were other things much scarier than a horror movie. "Haaaaaaaaa!" A loud scream resounded before echoing loudly. The shrillness of the scream was the last thing that ought to be heard in a place that already permeated this type of feeling. In one of the dark cells, that had scratch marks sitting on the wall like a proud mark of how much violence had gone down here. The only sort of light in here was the dim one that hung above the roof, its presence calm yet powerful, giving off the feeling of a predator. Slowly, the solemn sound of chains rattling in the cell was like setting off the timer of a bomb. Th
Third person's POV; One week- one week had gone by and the only words Ronald kept hearing was, "We are trying our best and hoping she wakes up as soon as possible." Each time, these words struck harder and kept sounding more like a death sentence. Like always, he sat by the bedside, staring at the sickly pale face of the one laying on it. She had a tube connected into her mouth that assisted with her breathing but for Ronald, watching her like this was a huge pain to him. "Alpha, you have to come to the pack. The elders are already going crazy enough and demand to know why you kept their candidate locked up in the pack's cell," said Lucas who had been by his side throughout the whole ordeal. Just like his boss, he appeared just as haggard but their only difference was that Lucas still had the decency to trim his hair compared to the former. From his oddly buttoned shirt, down to his rough pants which looked like they had been dug out of a pile of clothes abandoned f
Aria's POV; We've always been told that there were only three options; life, death and the one in between. But no one ever told me that there was more to it. That there was more to not knowing the difference between all three or that there was something else hidden in all of this. I could vividly remember the repetitive stab to my stomach, the one to my chest and also the exact pain I felt while experiencing all of these. Yet, could someone tell me why I was sitted on a flower bed, watching a kid that looked just like a mixture of Ronald and Damien run around the beautiful environment? Things would have been much easier to decide if it felt more like heaven or the afterlife but guess what? It was none of these two. As real as it seemed, every pain that rocked through my body and my bones was the one thing I needed to make me aware that this wasn't real. The kid running around me happily wasn't real and neither was the blue flowery gown I was wearing. You know what el
Third person's POV; Back at the Paxton pack, Ronald couldn't be any more happy to be going to Damien's wedding. Not that he held any sort of loving feeling for him in the first place but the thought that nothing could ever happen between he and Aria again was what brought great joy to him. "Are these all I need?" he asked the maid standing in front of him with her hands folded in front of her and her head curtly bowed. If more attention were to be paid to hard, it wouldn't be difficult to notice the way her legs shook in fear and the small wobbling of her lips while she forced herself to speak. "Yes Alpha," she answered fearfully. Nodding to Ronald's question was the biggest mistake any of them could make and fearing him was the best thing they could ever do. Even Lucas who stood with a pen and a jotter, behind the couch where Ronald was sitted was smart enough to know these things and give the necessary space. With a finger tracing the edge of his lip while his ga