Alpha Elijah’s POVIt was almost a week to the day when I received the news that Aria was awake. I had taken my anger out on the pack numerous times as I waited to find out if she had survived or not. Every little thing annoyed me as I tried to come up with a plan that would get her out of the Fae world but every scenario ends up with one of us dead.Simon leans against the fridge as he stared at me, that look on his face of ‘I told you so’. "Spit it out Simon!"“You should have told her.”“Thanks for that bit of information. Do you not think that I considered that? I can't change what has happened!”“Come on Elijah, it's the same as hiding the truth of who she is. You can’t expect everything to work in your favour and hiding stuff to do with the Fae, well, thats really fucked up. It was only going to be a matter of time”“Am I a bad Alpha? Do you have a problem with how I run things?” It was a test, he would always answer me truthfully and right now I needed to know what he and ever
Aria’s POVNo, it had to be a lie, he wouldn’t promise my life to someone else. Not when he had worked so hard to keep Ryan from me and not when he had no say over my life.‘Wake up, wake up’ I mutter to myself as I squeeze my eyes shut.“Aria, I am sorry but I would rather see you alive than dead, even if it meant we cannot always be together.”‘Wake up, it’s just a nightmare.’ A mate wouldn’t do something like this, not if they really cared.Peeking out of one eye, Elijah is staring at me, waiting for me to say something but this had to be a dream. It couldn’t be the truth and I pinch myself over and over, feeling the pain of each one.Turning to look at Chepi she nods her head. Elijah wasn’t lying. “You should have let me die!” I snap at him, this was the last place I wanted to be and maybe death would have been easier."I can't do that!""So you sold me for a deal, you made me a slave to someone else?"Chepi rests her hands on my shoulders, pulling me around to look at her.“You
Alpha Elijah’s POV She pulls her head to the side, turning herself away from my wrist, but she had to drink. “Aria, you will die!” But it’s not my comment that changes her mind, I see how her green eyes shift darker, the smell of my blood teasing her desires. Her teeth lock on to me, her tongue latching against my skin as she sucked. Her dark eyes gaze into my own. I had been so concerned with what the Fae blood did to wolves, I hadn’t considered how it affected hybrids. She was surviving, but only just. At the time I thought the only way to save her was to call Alwin but his help had barely knitted her wounds together. The one on her cheek was as fresh as the day she had received it, a chunk of her skin missing. After a few seconds, her eyes slowly close, her teeth retracting as the grip on my arm weakens, she falls back, almost like she is a baby who is milk drunk. Her wounds slowly knitting together but still not completely, instead leaving thick red lines that littered her bo
Ryan’s POVElijah's Beta wonders in, a smug smile on his face as he checks that Elida and I are still here. Thankfully they had put us in separate dungeon cells or I would have killed her with my own bare hands. Listening to her cackle was bad enough.“You will both be pleased to hear that Aria is alive!” He is practically beaming ear to ear as he makes his announcement.“Can I see her?” I hadn’t seen her since the hospital when Elijah’s men had escorted me out. In fact I hadn't seen anyone other than this guy. “No!”“She’s not here anyway.” Elida mutters from her cell next to mine.Simon’s expression changes immediately, his head snapping in her direction. He takes a step sideways to look at her properly, just slightly out of my line of sight.“What is that supposed to mean?” The Beta growls at her but she just laughs back.“We all know saintly Alpha Elijah will have made a new deal with my father. She wouldn’t have survived my poison otherwise. Only dear daddy could have saved her.
Alpha Elijah's POVThere, I had finally admitted it to someone other than Simon. I had made a Blood Oath just like Ryan. The only difference is that I had made it to a Fae King. Oddly he didn't seem overly concerned. When I had first told Simon, Simon had hit the roof. Maybe Ryan was so calm because he knew he had the upper hand.I also couldn’t believe that this was likely my only option of getting Aria out. To work with her other mate. The man I despised most.“So you are telling me that not only did you make a Blood Oath to the King of Fae but you have left Aria with one of them that will keep an eye on her!”“I had too Ryan. Chepi isn’t anything like Elida. Chepi wants out of the Fae world. She also knows about Aria and didn’t go running to her father.”He glares at me with those amber eyes. I don’t know if he was trying to shift or if he wanted to kill me.“I know we have had our differences but you have to agree, you want the same thing as me!”His jaw clenched as he shakes his
Aria’s POVI had been stuck in my bedroom for a solid two days. I was growing bored of the same four walls. There wasn’t even anything exciting to look at out the window. At least Chepi offered some company.My wounds were still a horrible angry red but thankfully Chepi had brought me some makeup to help cover them. She kept insisting that I couldn’t leave the room until they were covered or I would be asked more questions which would only attract Alwin's attention.She sits opposite me, gently patting my face with a sponge. Her lips curling up in disgust as she presses more and more makeup against my face.“Crap, it’s bleeding again!”The face wound was the one that kept leaking. It would stop for a few hours and then start again. I had woken to a blood soaked pillow this morning. Thankfully Chepi had been really good at getting rid of the bedding and bringing in fresh sheets.“When can I leave my room?”“When we figure out how to hide your wounds better.”She wasn’t angry, if anythi
Aria’s POV“You can’t do this here!” Chepi yells at me as I keep my eyes trained on Kyle“Your wolf… it’s…” Kyle mutters to me as I growl at him.He had abandoned me when I had needed him most, he didn’t even try to help me. He left me to die.Chepi stands with her hands up in the air but I had no problem with her, all my anger was directed at my so-called brother.Kyle drops his head “I didn’t know.” But I couldn’t answer him, I couldn’t even mind link him.“Aria please, they will kill you if they find you like this.” Chepi tries to reason with me but right now all I wanted was to see Kyle’s head detached from his body. I was the girl who always forgave but not anymore. I was done with all the liars in my life.“Let them find her. She shouldn't be here anyway!” Kyle mutters.It’s Chepi that turns and slams him into a wall. “You would give up on her so easily?” Her mouth was close to his ear as she held him off the ground with a single hand.I’m also surprised how quickly Chepi had c
Ryan’s POV“I’m sorry, but you are talking shit. A wolf mated to a Fae? That just wouldn’t happen.”Elijah raises an eyebrow at me, a smirk forming on his face.“What about Aria?”“What about her?”“Well you are a Hybrid that is mated to her. I am a wolf that is also mated to her. She is the first known wolf to have two mates.”“But we already know why. Her wolf is mated to you. Her vampire side is mated to me.”“Maybe but what if things are changing. What if the reason she is mated to both of us is because you broke your oath? Or what if the Moon Goddess feels like spicing things up a bit.”“Okay. Let’s say that you are right. That means Aria has a good chance of bumping into her brother. The one that abandoned her when she was with me. The one who hasn’t even made an attempt to find her. Even Seren came back to you. What do you think Aria will do when she runs into him?”It was a rhetorical question. I already knew what she would do. She had been waiting so long for him. She had tal