Ariana POVI had school but yet I kept staring at my phone as the call came sliding through my phone screen. For the first time in a long while,I had nothing planned in my head to say. Nothing that would match the anger I feel. The hatred I had for the ptsd that had blindsided me all these years. It was a lot if sermon to begin with and i wasn't ready to listen to any of it I finally answered the call."Hello." "Hello angel." He said from the other side of the phone. I couldn't remember the last time he had called me that. 'Angel' felt right when he used to call me when mom was still alive. It felt like my name other than Ariana.Once again,I didn't know how to answer that. "How are you?" "Did you take permission from your wife before calling me?""That is not a good tone angel. It has been a long time since I heard from you and I wanted to check on how you are doing?" "I'm fine. I am not dead yet. You thought I wouldn't survive the heat it takes from studying somewhere else. Some
Ariana POVI thought it was Damien.I wasn't disappointed but l lowkey exoected to varge into Damien becayse we had a lot to talk about."I should be asking you the same thing? What are you doing in front of a jewelry store."He looked back, a bit confused and shocked at the same time. "No, i didn't come here, there is an archive around here, i just wanted to catch up with some assignment."I never knew Darius to be a nerd but it was expected co sudering that evetyone loved to give him the cold shoulder , half of his time was spent alone with books and his family. It was a wonderful thing that someobe he loved equally was proritizing him like that. I wished sometimes that someone prioritized me. As I was speaking to Darius, my phone rang i i checked the caller iD it was my stepmom. I began feeling dushusted because i didn't want to speak to her. What the hell has come over them? She called a few times but i ignored her. "Is everything okay?" Darius asked "Yes. Just a few prank calls
Ariana POVI was not expecting him to come to my rescue. He has not talked to me all day and has been avoiding me. I knew I had made things difficult for him but deciding not to talk to me was just out of the picture."Follow me." Damien told me, walking ahead expecting me to follow him."No." I refused."Aria, please let's not cause a scene. Come with me." The students' eyes were already on us. I hated the attention but I was trying to prove a point. I knew better than to let his words affect me again. "And I am telling you no." I started, and continued eating. "I don't want to go with you. You can not stop talking to me, through the whole day and demand to speak to me like nothing has happened." I was hurt. It was extremely painful to be blamed for something and just move on like nothing has happened.Damien really had his ways of processing things but he should also understand that people are not like him every time. I couldn't stand the face of everyone staring at me, it was emba
Ariana POV"I asked you a question." I was still trying to stall. Training my mind not to build resentments for what he had done. I still.needed time but it seems he wanted an answer right away. I couldn't give him that. That was just so outrageous. "I need time, okay, I just can't forgive you out of the blue." "Okay." Before I knew what was going on , he had swapped me off my feet. I was on his shoulder, my hands were dropped down halfway."Damien, I'm telling you now to put me down." "Only if you agree to forgive me.""That's being outrageous. I can only forgive you when I have come to the notion that you wouldn't pull that stunt again. Since I don't know that yet, I just need time.""You are making things difficult for yourself, love.""Put me down!""Forgive me Ariana." The bell rang and I knew I had a course to catch up with. "Fine, i forgive you. Put me down! I have a class to get to." Immediately he dropped me down, I picked my bag and left him in the garden. The professor w
Damien POVI kept thinking about Ariana after the bell had saved her. I hurt her but I didn't think she was going to be that pained. J didn't even know why I was swamped with so many ladies around me in class. I couldn't ward them off because they were using school assignments as a revenue to stay beside me. I wanted to see my Ariana. I didnt know how she was coping with the trauma of almost being raped by unknown men. I was still shaken by the fear that had crippled me that night. Father was still worried about how I left abruptly, Darius kept wondering and assuring me that she was fine. Only to find the state she was in calling for help. After that night, I had a series of nightmares concerning her wellbeing and how she was being taken from me by my enemies. The burden I carried after that night only made things worse. I had this strong need to keep her locked up in a tower and never let her leave my side. I wanted her to know how much I was willing to protect her at all costs. I k
Ariana POVI was so scared. I have never been this scared before. With the way he first landed on the face of the teacher,it was only a matter of time before he passed out. By passing out,he might die and it would only complicate things. "Damien, please! You are going to kill him, leave him alone!" Damien grabbed his Tee shirt into his fist and punched harder. I tried dragging him off Calvin but he was way stronger than me.The strength I felt when Calvin was being mean was nothing compared to the strength Damien used in driving me off him."Please, I am begging. He has learnt his lesson, just let him be!" Tears began to fall. I was more scared of the aftermath of this grievous act than the act itself. I wanted him to suffer, yes but not at the detriment of his life."Aria, leave here! Allow me to teach this motherfucker a lesson." He pushed me further into a corner. "No, it is enough. "I shouted. "Help, someone please help!" I called on anyone that might still be wandering around
Ariana POVI was not in the mood to speak but somehow Diana always wanted to make things worse. It saddened me, drained me and keeps me from staying attuned to my iwn thoughts."That's not a very good answer." Diana followed me into my room. I was too pissed to tell her all that was hapening. I was even too embarrassed to say anything. I felt disgusted with my own body to even think of ptetemding byhat nothing had happened.."Fine. I don't want to talk about it." I brought out milk from the fridge, poured cereal on a poured some milk.i was ready to start crunching when Diana held my arm to stop me "I'm talking to you.""I just said I don't want to talk about it. I don't want to talk about my whereabouts.""Are you and Damien still having issues? If yes, I would understand why you are reacting this way. " she said. "I understand how you feel.""You don't understand how I feel. All the times when I truly need you, you are either not there or something is always up with you.""I took yo
Ariana POVI recalled everything, it was too scary for me to recollect. But i would because now, the chancellor was involved and there was no going back. This wasn't what i wanted and everytime i tried to make sense of how smoothly he cornered me to his room. i felt disgusted with mysekf for falling for his tricks."You are telling me that he pulled you out of the class because of your lack of concentration and you went to see him in his office as instructed and he tried to assault you?" "Yes, he didn't just try. He assaulted me until Damien came to my rescue.""She is lying. She has always wanted me, throwing advances to me in the class but i have alwats ignored her because she us a child and i couldn't possibly be seen with a child." I hadn't notice that he was there because he was difficult to recognize."You see the liar here. I am the one yhat doesn't even know that you exist. I just came to class and leave and i have facts to prove that i couldn't stand with you for one minute.
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