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 POV:He wouldn't even tell me anything. I will regret it. Regret what? What was there to regret that I have not regretted all this time?"Fine." I said to him. But just know that I will keep pestering you until you say everything." I said to him, getting up from the seat he had offered me.I got to the door, turned around, and looked at him. He was still seated, sipping his own cup of tea. He hadn't moved a single muscle when I made a move to take my leave. What a beautiful way to treat your guest!"It was nice meeting you, grandfather." I said to him: He still didn't budge. "Now I know who this mysterious grandfather of mine is." I said, opening the door and banging it behind me.The rain had stopped falling, so I could finally walk home without the fear of catching a cold. The only problem was that I was barefooted in such cold weather, and the floors were muddy and sticky. Before I had taken ten steps from the house in the woods, my feet had become very messy and dirty.I co
ARIA'S POV:I woke up to pains all over my body and what looked like a cold. Getting out of bed, I stretched myself, walked to the window by the study desk in my room, and opened it. The warmth of the sun hitting my face was as sweet as the sensation of the hot bath I soaked in yesterday night.Malcolm Wilson. Just thinking about yesterday brought him back to mind. He was really who he said he was—my grandfather.I never for once thought that my monster grandfather, as Dane had called him, was actually living in Zilam and had actually been living in Zilam all this time. Then how come no one knew, or did they know? This question came back to me.No, they couldn't know. He had kept a profile, which made it difficult for him to be noticed.Having had enough of the sun's warmth on my face, I moved away from the window. I picked up the reply I had written to Anthony, which I had forgotten to give to Auntie Lillian, thanks to the revelation my uncle gave me.Sitting down on my bed with the
ARIA'S POV:That's what I had planned to do, and that's what I was going to do. Pester him until he has no other choice but to tell me all that he knows.I walked into the kitchen and gave the bowl of apples to one of the chefs."We have more than enough apples, my lady." She said to me,. "I know." I replied. "It was a gift.""I'm sorry my lady." She said bowing her head."That's okay. " I said to her leaving the kitchen for my room.My life was getting messier and much more complicated. Uncle Jeremiah and the elders all told me to forget about the diggings. Then a strange elder also told me to forget about the diggings too.Why would they all tell me to forget something unless they knew the magnitude of the thing I was searching for.All I wanted to know was about the curse. It's origin and cure. That's if it does have a cure. I couldn't be infertile forever! Already, I have given up hopes of wolfing out, thanks to the purge failing, and all the greater thanks to Cordelia. So the on
ARIA'S POV:I had come back from the journey of no return with nothing but the meeting of my grandfather which yielded no fruit save that he knew about the curse. How he knew he wouldn't spill. Claire, Anthony and even Elijah were all glad to see me back. And deep down, it felt good to be back to a place of kindness, warmth and relaxationClaire helped me carry my bag to my room as she chatted happily about how she felt now that I was back."It's hard been boring without you my lady." She said. Her face full of the radiation of happiness she was feeling."I hope you know that she needs rest Claire." Anthony said. "It has been a long journey for her."I'm sorry my Lord." She said bowing to him then keeping youth for what seem like 10 seconds before she took off again."What was it like over there?" Clairebasked."Claire!" Anthony called flashing her his eyes of warning."I'm sorry my lord." She said meaning it this time."I never knew that you were such a talker Claire." I said to eas
ARIA'S POVI stared at him then at the archives and then back at him. He was the one that had cleared out my drawer."So you were the one that cleared out my drawers?" I asked him."No I wasn't the one." He said "You weren't the one!" I asked not knowing if I was disappointed or surprised."I found it when I was looking for you."he said."Oh" was all I could say. "You mean when I left?" I asked even though I knew the answer."Absolutely." He said."But that was in my room." I said pointing at the archive. "I wasn't there.""I'm not denying that fact." He said. "I was just..." He trailed off."Just?""I was lost." He said."I didn't know what to do or where else to search for you. I..." He sighed. "So I went into your room to see if maybe, you left without maybe a note saying where you went to. I also..." He paused. "I also missed you so I went to your room to be reminded of you." He said looking away from me and then at me, eyeball to eyeball.My ears were ringing with the why's I had
ARIA'S POV:"What do you mean by Malcolm is alive?" Anthony asked still holding into me as we were on the floor."I met him." I replied cooking at his face through tear filled eyes. "In Zilam." I said. "He is in Zilam.""Malcolm is alive?" He couldn't believe his ears. "But all the history books say otherwise.""He lives there... In Zilam." I said to Anthony. "He's keeping a low profile and no one knows that he lives there.""No one?" He asked. "Wait. You told no one when you met him?""I couldn't..." I said looking away from his face, the tears running down my cheeks all over again. " I first, needed to get answers from him before I would then let my uncle in on it." I said sniffing Anthony didn't understand what I was saying at all. The look on his face said it all."I don't understand you Aria." He sad. "Let's get up from the floor, sit down and discuss this." He said trying to pull me up from the floor."No." I whispered. "You don't understand. You have to listen to me... Please.
ANTHONY'S POV: When she had fallen asleep in my arms, I didn't know. She just lay limp in my arms. I couldn't believe that she was going through a lot of things all by herself. And this hurt me more than anything else had. Pulling her face up from my chest, she had a look of tiredness and suffering on it. And these things were the last things I had wanted to see written on her face. I wanted her to be happy. I wanted to make her happy and safe. Just the thought of her being hurt, brought a sharp jab to my heart. She was cursed. After the war. None of that were mentioned in the archives. My grandfather never mentioned anything like that neither did my father. Was there more to the war that was still hidden? And how was Darcy able to conceive and Aria unable to do so? Questions just kept flooding my mind. Nothing, making sense as it was supposed to. She stirred in her sleep. I failed and was unable to keep my promise concerning the poison and it's purging but as for this curse
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