ARIA'S POV"Welcome, young one." Ina greeted, like she hadn't seen me just yesterday. I gave her a smile, squaring my shoulders.I need to get myself purged of this poison, no matter what. I allowed Ina to strap me to the chair.I'm going to endure this, no matter what. Lady Ina begins her incantations, and then the pain comes flooding in. I have to become stronger. I have to endure. I am Aria Alpha of the Nightfang Pack, and I will take back what is mine. I will take back all that I've lost.***Thirty minutes later***Lady Ina initiates an ancient healing dance called "terakjux." A dance according to history, performed by messengers of good spirits of health, healing, and long life to sanctify their territory and ward off evil. In some cases, they perform the dance to invite the terakjuxans, the spirits of health, healing, and long life, to heal their patients.***Forty five minutes***Aria hold on. You can do it. Think of good things you swore to never forget. Anything***One hour*
THIRD PERSON POV"Baby, today we will be meeting the council by 2 p.m. to let them know of your upcoming coronation. This will finalize and solidify all the preparations." Logan said as he and Darcy were having breakfast.One could clearly see the satisfaction and joy emanating from Darcy's eyes. You could clearly tell how happy she was."Okay, I'll get ready and meet you and the elders by two p.m.""See you then. I love you.""I love you too."Immediately after Logan was out of sight, Darcy burst into heartfelt laughter that made Selena shudder from where she stood, waiting to escort her mistress back to her quarters.Just by the looks in Selena's eyes, it was clearly easy to see and tell how she felt being the maid of Darcy after her former mistress Aria had been kicked out. The smoke in her eyes spoke volumes about how she disliked Darcy. But of course, as a maid, all you have to do is serve your mistress. Old or new.As Darcy stood from the table and got to the door of the dining
ARIA'S POVDay ten! I reminded myself, with joy flowing through my veins. Five more days to go. I whispered, stirring the tea in front of me. I had finally decided to make the tea for myself from when I could complete my purging session without losing consciousness from the pain.Five more days left for me to take my rightful place. Five days left to deal with Logan and Darcy. Just thinking of him caused a stir of emotions in my heart. Love, hurt, pain, betrayal, and then, tears again!Why in the world am I even crying? He doesn't deserve my tears. These were the words I used to console myself, knowing fully well that my heart still ached even with the slightest thought of him."You need to sleep, Aria." My brain keeps telling me.***One pm***Doesn't Alpha Anthony have books here? I need something to keep me busy till it's time for my training.The word training brought back memories of yesterday, during my training with Alpha Anthony, how he had once again beaten me as easily as a c
ANTHONY'S POV"What's the current status of the pack, Elijah?" I asked my beta as we were nearing the end of our meeting going on in my study."The borders are safe, no intrusion so far, we lack nothing, both in food, daily necessities, weapons, warriors, and servants." Elijah recited as if he had spent all night memorizing it. "Here are all the bookkeepers' details and reports."I glanced at the numbers. They looked good—really good. "Okay. What else?" I asked"We also..." Elijah's voice became a background sound as I sensed something that made me tense up.The secret library! I thought, rising to my feet and almost knocking over the table Elijah and I were working with."Alpha Anthony?" I could hear Elijah calling out to me, but I had to find out who was in there at this time of the night and how whosoever that had got in."Continue working. Make sure to draft out all we need to do before the month runs out. I'll be back soon." I said, walking away from the work table. "Yes sire."
ARIA'S POV"Aria? What are you doing here at this hour?"I turned slowly to face Anthony, as if I hadn't just been snooping around, picking a random book to make it look like I had been reading. I snapped the book shut and smiled up at him. "Good evening, Alpha Anthony. I was just reading."He looked around, as if he were searching for someone. "How did you find the library?" He turned to me, and his brow furrowed a bit. "I don't remember asking anyone to show it to you.""Oh, you know," I said with an awkward laugh. "The things that boredom makes you do! I found it myself." I said the last part, a deadpan look on my face. Anthony's brow relaxed. "You are supposed to be in your room.""Yes, I am. But I was too bored with the cancellation of the training this evening, I couldn't just sit and do nothing.""So you divided to explore, is that it?""Perfectly correct." I said, looking to see if there would be a reaction of any sort. There was none. "Why are you looking at me like that?"
ARIA'S POVI woke up the next day feeling uneasy and curious about that secret library. What exactly could that place hold. I wasn't able to explore as much as I wanted to, thanks to the interruption of some people.Should I go back? The curiousity was killing me. I felt like I was being attracted to that place. I felt like it was calling me. But why? Why do I feel this way?I have to go back there. I have to. After the purge and tea, I read my lifesaver and took off to the library around few minutes past one. I walked cautiously, trying my best to make as little noise as possible. Finally, I got to the library.It was the shelf two shelves after the door on the farther right side of the library. I traced the shelf, tracing my height to where the book I pushed in was. When I finally found the book, I pushed it in, watching the shelf turn.I was still where I stood. Then I realized that the floor space an inch away from the shelf was also part of the shelf, so it always turns with it.
ARIA'S POVWhere I got my boldness to speak to Cordelia in such a manner, I don't know. But one thing was for sure: I was no longer afraid of her. She had to be humiliated to know what humiliation feels like and to learn to behave herself.Looking at the archive between the books in my hand, I wondered why it was handwritten and what exactly it held. Walking towards the seat at the window, I sat down and began to read. A documentation that was never recorded in the history books. I had never heard or read of this in all my life, so how does this make sense? Why does Alpha Anthony have this with him? Was that his reason for building the secret library? To hide this?***Day thirteen***All through the night, I had been restless. I only managed to get a little sleep by six a.m. this morning, and now, half past seven, I'm awake again.I got up wanting to read what I had read all over again just to be sure that I wasn't imagining things, but the courage to face the truth, I just couldn't
ARIA'S POVThe walk from the purging room to the pack house was long and tiring. After the purge, I had to apologize to Lady Ina once again, promising not to be late anymore. She was so angry that I could have missed a day, and messed up the work of thirteen days. I understood her point of view. But at the same time, how could I explain to her that my mind was miles and miles away from the Lycan pack right now? That what I had read from those books and archives weighed so heavily on my mind and consumed my thoughts??A war. Nothing was new about wars. There were wars all the time. Mostly for power and land, but sometimes for more personal reasons. Nightfang Pack was pretty much peaceful. We didn't bother any packs; we knew our strengths and weaknesses. And we weren't power hungry.That was the shallow history of the Nightfang Pack.Everything I knew about the Nightfang Pack came crumbling down yesterday. The peaceful image of Nightfang was shattered. Completely. Just like my heart was
ARIA'S POVAnthony said not to bother about Dane."He's got nothing now Aria." He said, hugging me. "So there's nothing to worry about."That put my heart to rest, as it was true. Dane had no where to run to, he had nowhere to be. Unless I was wrong.*** Months later ***I woke up to foreign noises coming from the bathroom. Anthony had left a note saying that he had to leave the pack to attend to other issues pertaining to his taking over of Crescent moon pack and Nightfang pack. That he would be home before lunch.I put back the note on the table where he had left it, moving towards the bathroom to see what was going on.And there they were fighting. Again.Selena and Claire never seemed to get along. Claire said that she hated her, that Selena was too entitled. While Selena on the other hand said that Claire doesn't want to get along with her."You don't put that in here." Claire was saying to Selena. "She doesn't like that.""That's not right." Selena said looking at the object in q
DANE'S POVFor hours now, I had been running aimlessly away from my prison walls. I might have been a slave just when Anthony had power over the Lycan pack. But now that he had possessed the Crescent Moon pack and Nightfang pack, I couldn't bring my mind to the fact that I would have to be a slave to him forever.I ran on, the forest closing in on me with every step I took. If it was just my mind playing tricks on me or real, I didn't know. I just knew that I had begun to feel suffocated.My feet were covered in bruises. My clothes were torn. My shirt was covered in dried blood that I bled when I was escaping. And my trousers were so torn, that my legs were covered in serious injuries that needed to be treated urgently to prevent getting infected.At every step of the way, I felt like I was being followed, felt like something was going to lash out at me from the shadows of the forest, tearing me to pieces.I carried a silver dagger, and a bottle of powdered wolfsbane, just in case I wa
ARIA'S POV"Look at you looking so Alphaly." I said to Anthony walking up to him.Days after the war between the Lycan pack and Nightfang, he was now the alpha of both Nightfang and crescent moon pack."Is that even a word?" He asked me, smiling."How would I know?" I chuckled."Interview time." I said, clearing my throat, picking up my hairbrush as a microphone and walking to him."What are you doing?" He asked, laughing."What does it look like, my love?" I asked him, stressing the love, a little. "I'm interviewing you." I said, answering his question."Okay, fine." He said adjusting the sleeve of his shirt."Here, let me help you do that." I said to him, dropping my hairbrush on the vanity table, helping him adjust his dressing.He looked so good and much more handsome after he had taken over his two rivalry packs. Even his aura had changed. He now exuded more power than he did before."This feat has never been achieved in the history of the Lycan pack had it?" I asked him, referrin
ANTHONY'S POVDarcy was Aria's sister. At least, had been Aria's sister ever since. But seeing the Bourdain crest in her shoulder and knowing that I had bitten her but that she didn't get hurt, put all the pieces together."Freya." I said, my voice failing me."Amor." She said tearing up and falling to the floor.Darcy was Freya, my sister that we had lost during the war with Nightfang.She had always found it difficult to say the name Anthony.*** Flash back ***"Say Anthony." I said to her,"Nanony." She said,"No Anthony." I corrected."Do leave the girl alone Anthony, she can't pronounce that and you know it." My mum said coming up behind us. "Why don't you try this." She said sitting down on the bed.She looked at Freya. "Say Amor." "Amor." She said and burst into shrieks of loud laughter. "Amor! Amor!""Mom, don't do that please." I said, half glaring at my mother. "She likes it l, look at her." She favored Freya with a gentle smile. "Freya, you will now call your brother 'Amo
Chapter 99: WHEN DAY BECOMES NIGHT IN A BLINKANTHONY'S POVThe remaining guards and servants that were alive recoiled when I entered the main pack house that housed Logan and darcy.Elijah, my warriors and I had taken down all the guards that stood in our way but at the expense of the lives of some of our warriors.It was a war anyway. Both sides were bound to lose something and I had witnessed it before.There were whispers of my name from the servants and remaining guards that Aria had not killed or wounded, as she had done a marvelous job of taking out most of the guards that tried to prevent her from going to Logan and Darcy.But where was she at the moment? I didn't know the full placements of the rooms in this packhouse even though I had visited before. Just as I was contemplating where to head while Elijah and my remaining warriors keep the guards and pack members intact, a young lady of about late teens or early twenties tried to walk up to me."What do you think you are doi
THIRD PERSON POVLogan looked from his Luna to Aria, unsure of who to believe."Come on, baby." Darcy said to him: "You wouldn't believe her lies, would you?" She asked him. "She's a born liar, sweetheart. A traitor." Darcy said, defending herself.Aria was indeed a traitor to Nightfang, she had lied to me. Logan thought. Besides, I don't even love her, I love Darcy, it will always be Darcy. He spoke within himself. But ever since I met Aria, she has never lied to me about anything. She was always open and kept no secrets from me. He thought, looking at Aria as she stood where she had been since she came into the room, looking at Darcy with a look of bemusement, mixed with disgust on her face.Was she really right? He asked within him."Baby, look at me." Darcy said, turning Logan away from Aria to face her. "I love you, and you know it." She said."So you didn't do it." Logan replied, finally finding his voice. "Did you, Darcy?" He inquired, staring at her."Of course not, baby." Sh
ARIA'S POV"Are you that surprised?" Logan asked me, coming up to where I stood, a smile on his face, walking around me, "You already knew this. Why then did you come all the way here to ask me questions to which you already knew the answer to?"Before I could answer him, he answered his question."That's for you to know and for me to find out I think." He smirked, knowing that that was what I was going to say. "Don't be so surprised Aria. We were together for three years which means I know you, inside out."I couldn't believe that he had the guts to still open his useless mouth to vomit concurrence to all the sins that he had committed. "Why did you do it?" I asked him, feeling the urge to attack him but decided to hold myself back."Did you think that both of us meeting each other was solely fate?" He asked, redirecting my question to the very question I didn't want to come to terms with, ever.After I had found out that he had killed my parents, I went into deep thought for days,
ARIA'S POV"Look who it is!" One of the guards at the border exclaimed when he saw me.Anthony and I had decided that I would walk up to the border guards on my own, while they would be at a close range behind me, then I would go in to find Darcy and Logan."Our long lost and exiled Alpha Aria." He said smiling."Hey Bruno." I said, smiling at him. "Long time no see ehh. Miss me?" I asked him, coming to stand a few inches before him."Why would I not miss the weakest alpha of all times?" He asked, looking at his comrades as they all fell into fits of laughter.I shook my head and moved forward to continue my journey. "Uh uh uh..." Jonathan, another of the guards, blocked me. "Where do you think you are going, Alpha Aria?" Bruno asked me, stressing the word Alpha."What do you think?" I asked, turning to face him. "I'm going to see my ex." I said smiling then turned to move, only to be blocked again, this time by both Bruno and Jonathan."In case you have forgotten." Bruno said to me
ARIA'S POVThe news spread like wildfire round the pack. It brought celebration and joy round the pack. Everywhere Anthony and I went, we were greeted with congratulations before greetings of Good Day alpha Anthony and lady Aria.I then decided to move into Anthony's room after ages of refusing to move in even when he requested I do so."This was why you were on edge." Claire said to me as she was helping me take some essentials that I was going to need while the servants would move the others."What can I say?" I asked her. "My hormones were all over the place." I said to her,"They sure added to the frustration and stress you were going through." She said packing my books. "That was what must have made you pass out."Of course, that was it."I'm going to miss you." She said, opening her arms for a hug."Where am I going?" I asked her."Away!!!" She said mimicking the sound of a wailing baby, coming closer to hug me."No Claire." I said, stepping backwards.She kept wailing and follow