Ariana POVI had to leave. I didn't know what I had done to warrant such backlash from him. There are a lot of questions that lingered in my mind. Tears couldn't stop strolling down my eyes, Darius tried to stop me from leaving but I couldn't stop because there was nothing to say. I tried to jog my memory of what had happened during our time at the field."Did i say something that annoyed him?"Maybe i had said something that i wasn't supposed to say. Nothing made sense after wine tasting my memory was blank. All i remembered after that was how i snuggled him before sleeping. Nothing else made sense to me because i had a lot of questions on what happened but all i got was his crude attitude. I finally got to the dorm room and rushed to my room. I promised myself I was not going to worry about it. I had a lot on my mind and I wasn't going to let that weigh me down.I came out to get some cereal, when I saw Diana sitting on the sofa upside down, lost in her own thoughts."What is
Ariana POV I smelled the blood first before I felt the warmth it brought to my arms. I didn't realise I was injured. It was the pain that drew my senses to it.I saw the claw marks tear my skin in four gruesome marks, filled with blood. The pain was unbearable. I have never seen him like that before, no matter how hard I tried to picture the monstrous act of his, I still was confused. My mind couldn't contain as I was reliving that tiny moment with him over and over. That moment was what I left out when I told Diana. I didn't want to stress their already strained friendship.It was like he was controlling himself not to snap in front of me. It made me think if I did anything to him, I just wanted to see how he was doing. I just wanted to make sure that he was fine, I didn't expect this snap from him that has caused an injury I might never recover from. It hurts too much, and I was still on the floor still trying to make sense of what just happened. The moment kept replaying itself
Damien POVI relived that moment a lot. When I had her close to me the night before and suddenly I drove her out of the lack of control I had over my wolf. I hear her words each time I go to bed knowing she was not beside me to warm my bed. I slept better when she was here, I could hear her laughter across the hall and everything would be right with the world again. I knew what I had done was wrong but I didn't know how to approach the situation. I haven't even marked her and everything was amplified. Her pain and sadness only made me feel worse. I had to race to the woods. That was one good thing about this pack, they have developed so much that there was always someplace to go. Some place you would want to be. I raced until I found a lake very far from the house, where I could think. At that time, it finally dawned on me just how much damage I had done.What if she doesn't reply to me any more.What if she rejects me? That would throw me off and I had heard stories about the p
Ariana POVI thought Damien was going to find out about my secret when he came to the gym. I wondered how he knew I was there at the gym, training. It was something he didn't know about me. I wanted to keep it that way. As my arm hurt, I found it difficult to throw punches towards the punching bag. I kept the injury a secret from Diana until she saw me when I exposed the wound. I had to cook up a lie at the very last minute but I guess that she already had an incentive but I decided not to confirm it. The wound wasn't healing as fast as I would like. Going to the infirmary with Damien, made me very scared because I felt the truth might be discovered again. Each moment where I didn't tell him the truth, he was closer to it and that scared me the most. I appreciated that he told me the issue he had with shifting. I felt very terrible that he trusted me with something like that and yet, I was finding it difficult to tell him what I had been hiding. After we made up, we made out in m
Ariana POVThere was the news of a party everywhere, I had never been popular enough to attend one but I wanted to try and attend. I thought about not being able to attend and it wasn't a good feeling being left out even when you were a mate to one of the popular guys.I fought through the pain I had in my arms. The pain I felt was more than the tear in my skin.I tugged at the rope a little tighter as Diana ordered. I have been training a little hard on this day and the cold weather wasn't looking like it any further. I was sweating as I entered the last round of my training for the day. "You hit hard. If I don't know any better I would tell you you've done it before." Diana told me but I rolled my eyes."I have. I have been training a little recently but I think now things have gotten a little bit serious.""Yeah, it has. You have a lot of drive, and a lot of anger to process. I'm glad you are channelling that into the best way you know how." She had little idea that most of the a
Damien POVI wanted her to have a good time. There was nothing I wouldn't do for her. seeing her smile as she ate was the best thing. Sometimes, I hated myself and told myself why I sometimes pushed her away. I didn't like the way she complained. The project we were to handle was taking most of my time. I dreamt of her when the day was almost over. I loved her so much, I knew it was a bit too early but I was so sure about her. Although I felt like there were a lot of layers to her still I was happy that she was in my life.The park was a bit scanty, so I made the staff prepare for a smooth picnic. I just wanted a quiet day with just her, not with Diana hovering around me. A few times, I have wanted everyone to stay clear of me. The way I tried to move away from everyone, someone would think I had something going on. I just wanted to be by myself and when she came everything became easier. She was always in my mind every hour of the day."Ever since I have been here, studying, I have
Ariana POV"I'm so doomed." I quietly told myself as I recalled everything that had happened at the mini-date with Damien. I knew the time was drawing closer. was becoming unbearable to see him through the lens of love without having to be scared. I was shaking in my boots. I didn't know how to react or how to curb the issue to remain a secret. If he hated lies how would he react if he realised that I had been lying to him from the beginning? I asked myself. I knew all was going to break loose if he found out that I had no wolf. He asked so many questions, I kept wondering why we couldn't just be like other couples that didn't rush things. I tried to avoid most of his questions but I was no fool. I knew that he was getting suspicious and even when I tried to soften the atmosphere, it felt like I didn't want him or our future together. It hurt me that we kept having the same conversation and everything else kept falling apart even more."Ariana?" He nudged me. "I snapped out of my t
Damien POV"What do you mean she collapsed?" I rushed out of my bed. It was too early to be listening to this kind of news. I wanted to hear her voice again. Suddenly, I wanted to fill myself with her scent of jasmine. Hide my face in her hair. All that went to shit with just one phone call."I was still asleep when she went to the gym and on getting there, they were trying to revive him," Diana explained to me as I put on some clothing."Fuck. I'm coming right away." I ended the call before she could say another word. As I stepped out of the car, the driver was ready to drive but I grabbed the keys from him."Where are you rushing to this early?" Darius interrupted."I'm going to take care of something, I will be back soon." There was no point in giving him the details because it was going to raise more panic and I didn't want that. Since she collapsed in an open area, the whole school might have beens aware. The gossip blogs may even intervene with their gracious self trying to plug
Chapter 152DamienThere were a lot of things that went through my mind as we were about to take the bold steps. I was going to take over my pack from that bitch. It was the best decision I had to make. It has been a week since Ariana had killed her step mom, it was a wonder how, it still wasn't obvious. Deep down I wished the baby was mine but as nature would have it I screwed up and I would be damned if she even considered me at all. We finally raided the pack and Diana was waiting for us. It felt like she knew we were coming. She had a smirk on her face.“I was wondering when you were coming back to me my love.” She tried to come closer but I already took two steps back, disgusted. “Take another step towards me and that would be the last you will ever take.” She laughed. “You have always acted tough. I guess that's why I was so attracted to you for so long. My heart feels pain knowing that you left in such an abrupt manner. I would take it like you are here to give me what I wa
Chapter 151ArianaDarius was curious about this new found power. At the same time he was worried sick about how it might affect my baby. Damien was the one soliciting for my breakthrough with this. I didn't know if he was excited but I couldn't quite catch his expression. I was more concerned about the bitter pain that came from the little sharp pain from my Belly.“If you are not up for this, you can stop.” “No.”“If she wants to continue, let her. Your overprotectiveness might not lead us anywhere.” Damien snapped at his brother but he ignored him. They placed an edible plant in front of me. “You just have to focus on this plant and let's see what can come off it.”I focused my energy on it but nothing happened the first time. “What do you want?” Arya asked me.“I just want comfort and good food. I just want a good meal and a warm Bed to sleep in.” I told her. “Then focus on that. Forget the plant. Breathe in and out. Then watch your power unfold.” I was already locked in my m
Chapter 150ArianaBefore I could get back from bring Darius, the whole land and vegetation was on fire. It was no brainer to not know who was behind the whole thing. It was clear just how much we were being hated. They just wanted us out of existence. I had no doubt that Diana was in too for the last of the raid. We just haven't seen her. I would normally go through the wild and fighting them with my last breath but there was no time to be reckless,I had to think of my babies. “Where is Damien and the kids?” He asked me, holding me close. “He is with kids.in the bunker. Has everyone else reached safety?” “Yes. The women and children are safe. The army is ready to make sure that we are safe. We have to stay away from the pack. It is what's best.” I shook my head. This was not how it was supposed to be but it was what's right. “We just have to look for a way to fend for ourselves “It's been two weeks since the attacks have been worse. There was nothing I could do but to protect m
Chapter 149DamienWhen she said that there was a level of hurt that I dissociated myself from. I had no choice than to move away from her when I needed to. It felt like my breath was clogged and it took really hard work to make sure that I did nothing to think about her again. It was difficult but I would be a fool to disrupt all that she had. My wolf was restless and he was in as much pain as I was. The children ran towards Darius. Hugging him. It was the relationship that they had in between and I hated him for it. There was resentment inside my mind. I keep wondering where the anger was taking me to because I didn't want anything to disrupt what they had here but still I wanted her. I craved her more than anything.“No, I am not going to take this!” I yelled. Their gazes were on me. “You took everything from me. Taking my children as yours.” Ariana covered their ears, not wanting them to know about it. It broke my heart even more because it seemed that she didn't want them to
DamienIf I had known about them being mates with Diana then maybe things wouldn't be so messed up. Diana was just a figure that stood beside me just because of the pack. I never knew she was a ticking time bomb. When she risked everything to me, it all made sense. While she was always near, especially when I needed to talk to someone. There was nothing else that would have fit in if she wasn't in the pictures Her aunt being Ariana's step mom, it felt like the final piece to a puzzle. It was clear why she was always disappearing even when I knew that she was cheating. I didn't know someone higher than her was also influencing her decisions. Darius had no reason to hide that information from me. “Yes, I would have cared. Maybe it would have been a way to stay with Ariana all along.” He scoffed. “Can you even hear yourself? Do you need me as a reason to be with your mate? Someone that has been with you since the very beginning of your relationship. You wanted a figure for your reputa
ArianaI didn't know why he bothered to show up here. There was no remorse left in me for him. He didn't deserve it. For all I knew he could have stayed there with Diana. I didn't know the agreement he had with her,he might be here on an assignment for her. It was so absurd to think that way after seeing the way he was bruised and tattered. It may be nothing and I was racking my brain worrying about what his motives were. There was so much pain knowing what I had to endure because of him. The humiliation he had pulled me through. There was nothing more frightening than the fact that he was near and close to me. All I kept thinking about was Adrian and Adrianna. He might want to take them from me. My wolf became so restless just by thinking about it. I tried to gain control but it was difficult. It was like trying to see through the walls and trying to pacify my own self. The discomfort, I couldn't bear but I had to. He was my mate's brother and despite the connection we might have ha
DamienI saw her again. It felt like everything was right with the world again. She was doing way better than the last time I saw her. It was clear that she was now a Luna. Luna has the protection of the pack and everything just keep radiating on you after that. She was a grown woman compared to when she had first escaped from her father's pack. When she escaped me and built a life with Darius. I wanted the rumours to be false. I didn't know why I came here after escaping from the hands of Diana. I didn't know why I was so foolish to abandon my back and leave it in the hands of a cruel witch. As the alpha, everything in me was dying to go back but it would be worse. I needed to get reinforcement. The only person that had come to my mind wasn't even Ariana, it was Darius. I knew I was stupid to have treated him that way. In ways that one wouldn't treat family. I kept staring at her and my wolf cried anytime I was not near her. I was willing to drop my shame and worship the ground she
ArianaI was still holding Jessica down when every one of her men wanted to fight me off of her, I growled, they stood back. There was a signal for my soldiers to escape and that was just a mere distraction."You think you are that tough huh?!" Jessica tried to fight me off. But I stayed clear from her insults and held her down. There was fear dancing in her eyes and with this position that she was in, she knew that I could easily kill her if I wanted to. As angry as I was there was no o be way I have thought if killing her except that she hurt someone I love. That would be pathetic even for her and no matter how hard I tried to make sense of it, I just couldn't find all her reasons for being so hateful towards me. "I am tough. Next time, when you cross through my borders to threaten my children. I will not spare you then." I laced her with another dose of wolfbabe before leaving. The little army she had left was tending to her when I ran for the hills. All our soldiers were gone and
ArianaShe had changed. She had become more sophisticated, that was because she had taken everything that my father had owned. She was in charge and it bothers me how she had turned everyone here into a slave for no reason. She was desperate for power and she got it.I growled again but Darius came close to me, holding my hand so I didn't lose my cool. "What have I ever done to you that you had to send your group of witches to kill me." Jessica laughed. There was this sparkle in her eyes that made her feel she was on top of the world. "Everything. First of all, you had collected Damien from my niece and honestly, that hurt like hell.""Your niece?" I was still confused. I had no idea what she was saying. The only relation she had was Marcus. Except …"C'mon. I know that you are smarter than this Ariana. We sent you to that school for a reason, I wanted to watch you through and through. So I sent my niece to be your roommate. Just because she is my niece, she would do just about anyth