ARIA'S POV:The scent of warmth, the peace of home. I never thought that I would be able to experience such again. I never thought I'd have a home aside from Nightfang, but turns out I was very wrong.It felt good to have a roof over your head filled with care. I tried to rise from the bed but winced in pain as I tried to stand up."Here, let me help." It was Alpha Anthony. He was still with me."Were you with me the entire night?" I asked him."I couldn't just leave you here alone. I'm never doing that again." He responded, adjusting my pillow and helping me sit up straight. "How are you feeling today?" He asked me concern pouring from his voice.Of course, I was feeling better than I ever had in the last few days. "Better than yesterday," I told him."Is there anything I could get for you?" He asked, pushing my hair behind my ears and covering me with the blanket."Not really," I say. "I'm fine."There was silence. Then he took my hands in his."I'm sorry." he said. "Why do you kee
ARIA'S POV: It's been two days since I returned to the lycan pack. All seemed well except for the fact that everyone was looking at me with pitiful eyes. I had decided to take some fresh air and warmth from the sun, so I left my room with Claire holding onto me. I hated it, but I couldn't do much because my wounds were still healing and I couldn't walk without an anchor. The weather was nice and sunny. It felt free and breathable compared to the numerous times at Crescent Pack that I had to go under the sun. For the first time in a few days, I got to go under the sun to enjoy its beautiful warmth and not to suffer or engage in any form of torture or hard work. "There is a garden a few meters away from the pack house." Claire said to me: "Would you love to see it?" "Yes. I would love to." I replied. Looking around the beautiful garden, all the time I spent here, I had not known that the Lycan Pack had a garden that was this beautiful. The green grass was reflecting sunl
ARIA'S POV: The least I could let Anthony do for me, was to let his guards escort me to Zilam and then leave. Claire, Anthony and I had spent two days preparing for my return to Zilam. Anthony was still unsure of sending me alone to Zilam. And Claire was rambling on and on about how she wanted to go with me as my personal maid there. I was glad that I had people that cared about me in such a way that was different from the past care and love that Darcy and Logan showed me. Unlike their, this was genuine. And in as much as I was grateful for that, I could not let then get ropes into my fight neither could I let then into my shattered mind. I had to do this on my own. The departure day came faster than usual. I had told Claire and Anthony that all I needed was just a little luggage of not more than a bag. I let him know that I had all I needed at Zilam. There run front of the carriage that had been prepared for me to depart with. Claire hugged me. "I will miss you." She sa
ARIA'S POV: It had been five days since I had arrived at pack Zilam. And so far, I had not been able to find peace neither have I been able to find answers. I still had nightmares of my stay at Crescent pack every single night. Even when I did not have nightmares about my stay at Crescent pack, I had nightmares about how I had been rejected by Logan. I could still see Darcy's face as she smiled wickedly at me hooking her arm with Logan's. Her smile still lived and moved in my memory and seemed to intensify ever since I had come back to Zilam. Even the way she had pushed me off her like I was some disgusting pest that perched on her fair skin. Each and every time, I would awake covered in cold sweat. And for the rest of the night, I would not be able to go back to sleep. I was scared that I might develop insomnia. So I resorted to pills I had gotten from Zilam's healer. They still did not help. All these I pondered on as I went to respond to uncle Jeremiah's call. He had c
ARIA'S POV: I had almost walked halfway down the hallway when I could not take it any longer. I screamed my heart out causing a stir in the hallway. From the corner for my eyes, I could see the alarm on the faces of the guards, servants and maids in the hallway. I had had enough. Who was she to seduce Logan? Why did she did that to me after all she had promised me back in the days. After all she had said about us being sisters for life and the nonsense about how we would have each other's back no matter what. Instead, I had just found out that she had had a crush on my husband. Rather, ex husband, for the past three years and when she had finally seen an opportunity to get her close to him, she did that without a second thought. I had not heard any she had betrayed me and stolen him from me. I had to asked her and know her answer. Turning around, I headed back to the living room. Barging into the living room, I met Darcy sitting on the couch sipping tea. "Why?!" I asked
ARIA'S POV: I had just barely arrived Zilam and had already been frustrated due to the lack of answers and level of secrecy that the elders had been giving. And to top it all Darcy!! I felt like punching something. I just needed to take my anger out on anything. Back in my room, I screamed into my pillow. It did not help one bit. I wanted to yell but that would attract the attention of the guards and servants. And the last thing I wanted, was company at anything of such sort. I had been scorned and humiliated once again by thee very one person I had put my trust in. If someone had asked me to bet my life on the generalization that Darcy would always stand by me and never betray me, I would have bet it without a second thought. Still trying to calm myself down, I poked my head out of the open window in my room. The sun had risen but was not yet high up in the sky. Perhaps the garden could help me. Turning back to the door, I walked out of my room. What if I meet Darcy on
ARIA'S POV: "Aria!" Uncle Jeremiah called as I stormed off. "Aria!" He called again coming after me and taking a hold of my arm. "What did you just say?" "You heard me." I replied turning to face him. "What do you mean it ended long time ago?" He asked. Not waiting for a reply, he asked another question. "You two are no longer together?" What did he want to hear from me? I had already summarized everything. "You heard me." I said again through clenched teeth. "When did this happen?" I forcefully unhooked my hand from his. "Excuse me." I said turning away from him, walking towards the pack house. I had no intention of talking about Logan with uncle Jeremiah. Logan was not worth my time. I had told uncle Jeremiah that we were no longer together and it felt like I had one less burden to carry. It felt good. Opening the door to my room,I laid on my bed looking at the ceiling. Just like the others, uncle Jeremiah was saying the same thing. Forget it! How long do I have
ARIA'S POV:Granddad?! Then it dropped. The white haired elder that Uncle Jeremiah and the elders of Zilam had told me did not exist in the pack, that they had all told me to forget about, was the monster grandfather of mine that Dane had spoken to me about. And I was standing with him, right in front of him, in this place that was far away from the pack house in the woods? I couldn't even bring myself to laugh.Did Uncle Jeremiah and the elders know while pretending to not know or did they not know?"You sure have been asking a lot of questions about me and other things." He said putting emphasis on 'other things'.How did he know? Could it be possible that this place was still within the boarders of Zilam? l thought looking around the woods while keeping a wary eye on him. If this man was truly the one that killed Dane's parents, then I had to be careful around him whether he was my grandfather or not."Looking around to see if we are still in Zilam?" He asked.Did he read my mind o
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