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 POV:"It's a dead end." I said to Anthony as he took a hold of me. "That's it for me." I said to him. "All is just repeating itself as it did during the course of the poisoning.""No Aria." He responded. "There are still other healers out there that we can reach out to." He tried to assure me. "I will make sure that they come see you before making any conclusions." He said taking me to sit on the bench in the garden."And what if the answers still remain the same?" I asked him. My voice filled with hopelessness."We will find a way to lift it." Was his response. "I will." He said."I need to return to my room."I said rising from the seat."Leet me escort you." Anthony said joining me on my feet still holding my hand.I slowly pulled my hands from his. "That rest you spoke about," I spoke not looking at him."I really need it now." I said heading for my room, walking away from Anthony and Elijah. Behind me, I could hear Anthony giving orders to Elijah telling home to search farth
ARIA'S POV:With every sight of the letter I took from the floor, my breathing grew stronger.In the background, I could hear Claire's faded voice calling out to me, but I was just too engrossed in my thoughts. With the little level of consciousness I had, I saw Claire move out of my room with urgency and speed.Coming down from my bed, I moved to the letter as cautiously as I could. What could the letter contain? Was it just a letter, or was it more? Poisonous pen ink fumes? Poisonous paper? Dane was capable of these things even worse.Picking up the letter, I held it at arm's length, opening it. After some screening, I realised that it was just a letter. That was fear number one, down.If it wasn't poisonous ink fumes or poisonous paper, then why was he writing to me? And why now? What was his motive?Bringing the paper close to me, I read with care. "My lovely Aria, it's Dane Seymour. Ring a bell?"How would it not?"I'll have to give good kudos to your knight in shining armor; ho
ARIA'S POVWe took off by five a.m. so as to get to the moon goddess's temple."Do we have all that we need?" Anthony asked Elijah."Water, food—that's pretty much all that's there." Elijah said.The strange mage just sat in the back of the carriage, sitting like she was hearing and seeing things. Claire gave me a flask with chamomile tea for the ride."Thank you." I said to her. She gave me her usual smile. This was a few minutes to five a.m.."We need to head out." The mage said: "The earlier, the better.""We will be leaving now." Anthony said to Elijah, and Elijah nodded."Let me help you." Anthony said as I tried to climb the carriage."I'm fine." I said to him, rejecting his help. "I can get on on my own." I knew what I was doing was hurting him, but this had to be done for the greater good. At least, that was what I thought.We climbed into the carriage, and off we went to the temple of the moon goddess."You didn't tell us your name " Anthony said to the mage."How important i
DARCY'S POV:I squeezed my eyes shut, my body rocking with the force of Malcolm's thrusts. I did my best to dissociate from the situation, reminding myself that this was all for the greater good."You feel so fucking amazing right now," he groaned, grabbing my hips and hitting me hard. "Don't leave a mark," I said, turning my head to look at him. He had his head thrown back, exposing his throat. If I had a dagger, I would have slit his throat right now. But I didn't. So I turned back and buried my face in the pillow, waiting for this to be over. Once he was done, I pushed him off me and pulled my clothes back on."Not so fast," he said, grabbing my arm. "Let go of me!" I yelled, struggling with Malcolm. I had to get back to Nightfang in time before Logan would notice that I was gone. I didn't want to think of what could possibly happen if Logan found out that I was missing. He would search the entire vicinity, looking for me. Then what excuse would I have to justify the fact that
MALCOLM'S POV:"Shit!" I had been lying on the glass shards for over twenty minutes, trying to stand up on my feet. A big shard was stuck in my side, which made it even more painful to rise. Mustering all I had, I gave myself a push, only for my hand to meet another shard of glass piercing through my palm."Shit! That little thing." She had done this to me, and then she fled.I looked at the wound, and with all these I had, I pulled out the large shard of glass from my side. It took courage and composure for me to not scream. The shard was out, so all I had to do was get up.After a few trials and errors, I got up from the midst of the shards and limped towards the bed.Heal! I was looking at the injury I had sustained, expecting it to heal like the others, but it just gaped at me, bleeding.I rose from the bed and walked to the room's drawer. I began searching and looking for anything that I could place on the injury to at least stop the bleeding. Eventually, I could grab a white tow
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