ARIA'S POV:By the time I had recovered from the shock of finding the mysterious elder's picture in my mom's diary, it was already six a.m. No matter how much I tried to force myself to sleep, I just couldn't. So I just laid in bed, doing nothing but staring at the ceiling. My mind was a battlefield. The thoughts in my head just kept ramming into each other.A knock at the door brought me back to my senses."Come in." I said. Auntie Lilian walked in, surprised to see me in bed looking at the ceiling."Good morning, Aunty Lillian." I greeted, not taking my eyes off ceiling."Morning too, Aria." She said, looking at me with confused eyes.She left for the bathroom to fix me a bath. When she was done, she went to my wardrobe to bring out my clothes for the morning and for breakfast."The bath is ready, Aria." She said.I was too engrossed in my thoughts to even hear her. Her voice just felt like background noise to me. It was there, but just in the background."Your bath is ready, Aria
ARIA'S POV:After a long time, the tears stopped flowing. I stood up from the bench and left the garden for my room. I walked back to my room pulling my legs with me as if there were a heavy burden. The weight in my heart had spread round my body and I felt very heavy.As I walked through the hallway, my mind was not with me, it was deep down in the pain and agony of my heart.Walking through the hallway, I heard greetings of servants and guards directed at me but it all sounded like it was far away from me. I was lost in my head, lost in my heart. I didn't know the next step to take, all I could think about was that my younger sister was pregnant for my husband or rather, my ex-husband and it hurt me so much. I couldn't even explain how it felt. I just felt like I was being strangled. My heart felt like it was being embraced by a thousand and one daggers. The pain was so much that I had to force my lungs to receive the air that I was breathing.The feeling was painful yet numb. It
ARIA'S POV:The Crescent Pack men were here! I gasped. How much worse could my day get?What did they want? What does Dane want this time? I asked myself. How did he even find me?Turning to me, uncle Jeremiah said in a warning tone."You stay here Aria, no matter what comes up, no matter what happens, do not come out. Is that understood?" He said.Without waiting for my response, he left with his beta to go and investigate what going on outside.After he had left, I followed him knowing that if there was any reason why Dane is here, then he was here for only one reason and I was the reason.But if I was the reason, who had given him Intel on where I was?I trailed behind my uncle and his beta in such a way that they wouldn't notice that I was following them.Keeping a safe distance from them, I watched as they walked outside with guards on each of their sides.Then I saw him, my worst nightmare, Dane. There he stood in the middle of the village with his men as if he owned the place.
42ANTHONY'S POV:For the past twenty five minutes I had been sitting at the breakfast table, I had not taken a bite of the food in front of me.I was unaware of my surroundings, and all I could think of was that it had been weeks now and still, no sign of Aria. Where could she have gone? I asked my thoughts.I had sent out the first group of people under the guidance of Elijah to find her, they had found nothing. A few days ago, I sent out another group to find her.I had been waiting for Elijah's reply for days, but I hadn't seen him or returned. As I sat there looking at the food in front of me, I lost appetite.Unable to continue eating, I rose from the seat and left for my study. Finally, in my study, I found it difficult to relax. My thoughts were all over the place. Not too long into my time at the study, I began to pace.Pacing around in my study, I couldn't feel at ease. Why did she have to leave? Was it because I was too harsh with her about the purging? Was she tired of my
ARIA'S POV:Blinking, I could hear voices and laughter. It took a while for my eyes to adjust to the light, as well as for my mind to register that I was no longer in the Zilam pack.I was in the Crescent Pack! Again!Looking around, I realized that I was on the floor of the dungeon. I tried to rise, but I could not. My entire body was full of aches. It felt like I had fallen from the fifteenth floor of a building, and then been hit and beaten to pulp.With every move I made, pain was the outcome. Moving my leg was like moving a very heavy sack of bricks that weighed a ton.My head itself felt too heavy to carry. Trying to rise the first time, I fell. The second time, I could only manage to get up on one leg, and then, with a thump, I fell back down.After many attempts, I just decided to lay back on the floor until I was sure that I could rise without much issue.Footsteps were approaching the cell I stayed in. Outside the cell bars, a pair of feet stopped in front of me. "We meet a
ARIA'S POV:The dungeon returned to normal after the show I had put on. Guards continued carrying out their duties.Sitting on the floor with my back against the wall, I felt weak and hopeless. I stared at the dungeon's bars with a blank mind.For what seemed like hours, I sat there, unmoving. Until there seemed to be a grave silence all over the dungeon,. From the cell I was in, I could hear echoes of "my lord" resonating from all angles of the dungeon, followed by footsteps directed towards my cell.As the footsteps drew closer, flashbacks of the last time I had been here began to come to me.My breathing began to come in short, interrupted breaths. I could feel my heart wanting to jump out. My heartbeat accelerated, and all I could hear was the sound of the footsteps coming in my direction.Mustering up all the courage I had, I looked up just in time, and the owner of the footsteps stopped in front of me.Dane Seymour.The perpetuator of evil, the devil himself. The alpha of the C
ARIA'S POV:"Wait!" I screamed, rising to my feet, which was a miracle, and running towards the bars of the cell, as Dane was about to turn away from the cell I was in and leave the dungeon."How do you know so much about my grandfather?""Your grandfather?" He asked sarcastically, then turned to face me. "Who in the history of werewolves would not know your monster of a grandfather?"I scoffed. "Do you dare call him a monster when you are much worse?""I'm worse than your grandfather." He asked, laughing. "I'm worse than that thing?" He asked again, unable to control his laughter, which sounded like a rich blend of the sound of water waves mixed with a hint of thunder and whirlwind.It sounded rude and wicked, but also soothing and hurtful."A note of warning just for your safety, darling," he said, walking close to me with amuseme
DANE'S POV:How could anyone be as clueless as that girl? Of all positions, she was an alpha, yet she did not know anything about her family?No wonder she was able to hand her position over to her mate. What a pathetic excuse for an Alpha pack as great as Nightfang!How could she not catch on after all the hints that had been dropped? Was she really that dumb? I shook my head.For an alpha, she had no backbone. No wonder she was easy to manipulate.As I pondered on these things, I also wondered why Cordelia had not yet come to see her little prisoner.She had been savoring this moment, so why hadn't she come to say hello? What was keeping her from coming to 'pay her respects' just as Cordelia had put it.Walking towards my room, I changed my mind and decided to go to the stables instead.To
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