Oh no, is Aria in danger? Would Jake really... Hell, things would go downwards if he did something bad to her. Do you think Jake would hurt her? Let us know in the comments. XOXO
32. Aria In Hospital "I genuinely felt something for you, Aria Wright." He constrained her wrists beside her face. Aria's stomach vanished. She didn't feel like she had her lower body with herself. All sorts of fearful thoughts struck her mind and she prayed to the moon goddess to raise her up without acquiring any physical pain. The worst feeling for a girl should be this-- pinned on the bed by the guy she assumed to be perfect and her Mr. Right. Also the one who was her first kiss. Second, too. Aria hated herself for even falling in love with him. He was not worth it. And what he was about to do with her made her abhor herself even more. On the other hand, Jake's teeth hurt from tight gritting. He was forced to do this. She made it happen with her annoying behavior. He loved the acquiescent and shy side of her. It was what he was drawn to. As Jake stared at her, his mouth twisted distastefully. She was not the girl he felt for. "And this is the last thing I wanted you to feel
33. Jake's Gone! Aria was overwhelmed when she found herself on a hospital bed wearing a boring and itchy blue gown. There was a needle attached to the back of her left hand and a few machines beeping beside the bed."Don't wriggle, Aria,." She heard a voice coming from the extreme corner of the ward. "Your movements will cause you pain in the hand." "D-dad," Her father was settled in a couch with his eyes staring coldly at the floor.The memories from her bedroom when her father walked into her room and that she fell slammed into her mind. She felt all sorts of uncomfortability and no matter how serious her father sounded, she sat up straight. Her eyes burned and the heat of terror in her face made the machine beside her beep loudly. Mr. Wright lifted his gaze and then himself. Her blood pressure was escalating. Knowing that his words are not going to help her settle down, he rushed out of the ward and returned with doctor Patrick. "Hey Aria, you are absolutely fine. There is no
34. Don't pretend to be niceFive minutes later doctor Patrick walked out with a bitter look on his face. His eyes indicated his irritation and that Zavier was an ungrateful father, who did not deserve Aria as his daughter. More than that, he was dumbfounded that he never managed to assess the softness in her eyes everytime Jake was mentioned. She was probably in love with him. But her father and his coldness only meant one thing-- A big no to their relationship. Patrick held onto his white coat to prevent himself from punching the hunter in front of him. As long as he's going to be here, Aria will never recover. There was only one way to help her. It was that her father must be prohibited from seeing her as long as she was here. Patrick did just that. "You are not allowed to see Aria unless she's ready to leave here." The senior doctor was prepared for a verbal fight, which never came. Maybe her father knew that it was better if he stayed away from his daughter if he wanted her to
35. Don't Touch Me "Your father won't like it if you turned down my help, Aria." He said softly but the creases around his mouth showed he was here just to play with her.Aria shook her head again and turned to look out of the window at the passenger's side. "You can take my corpse out once I am dead.""Unfortunately," She was not expecting that coming. "You are not dead which leaves me with only one choice."She avoided the enchanting huskiness in his voice. She may not be a werewolf, the pull of the mate bond still affected her. Something tickled on the left side of her chest. There was hot burning all over her skin. She pulled up the sleeve of her top only to find erected goosebumps. This was his effect on her.Irrespective of how much she wished to go away, her body showed contradicting signs. He noticed them too. Hell, Aria inhaled a deep breath and prepared herself to crawl to the passenger's seat. As it is rightfully said that, when one door closes, God opens another door for
36. Angry AriaNoah was usually known as the easy going guy. The training he obtained taught him to be patient and take every situation easily with a calmed mind. However, he didn't know what went wrong around Aria at that moment.For a change, he was fascinated to see her speak so much. She was standing for herself. She was picking her chin high and talking her heart out. But the unrelenting heat her words caused could not be measured. It was intense and it shot up straight to his cock, causing short-circuit in his system. It was so triggering that he wanted it to stop and he didn't think there was any other way than kissing her mouth that could help. This was wrong. So very wrong. Her father and his own would not appreciate him for this at all. She just got discharged from hospital and instead of helping her settle down nicely, he was kissing her. Aria moaned in his mouth. It was not the type of moan he appreciated as it was bordered on anger and pain. He can imagine what she woul
37. Waste Of Time “He could have provided us with more information, Jake!” His father seethed angrily and snatched the bag of sack from his hands.Jake responded to it with a roll of his eyes and a straight face taunting smile, “As if he was scared of your rage, sir. If he had more to share then he should have done it long back when we abducted him from his hideout.”“That still does not give you the right to kill a rogue like that, Jake Ragnar. You will never become a good alpha if you continue behaving in that manner.” Jake suppressed his rising anger and turned away.His father was not helping him at all. The reason for coming here was to get a break from Aria’s thoughts. She haunted his thinking and everywhere he looked he saw her face. Her tearful eyes and that complaining gaze bothered him so much that when he heard his father talking with one of the wolves about going on a hunt to gather some information from a rogue, he insisted and convinced his father to join them.Alpha t
38. Preparing for a war Jake was speechless. His ragged breathing was enough of an answer though. "This thing in my hand you're seeing is not just any simple ash, Jake," Alpha said. "This is found in the cursed willow forest where only the bravest of souls would dare to tread. The portal to the cursed willow forest is in the forest of the dead in our pack."He gave Jake his hand and picked him up. He helped dust his clothes and combed his air with his finger before patting his shoulder, encouraging him to move along. Jake was still in a state of trauma and his unsettled heartbeats made his surprise obvious. His father bit his lips. He went a little too hard on him. 'I should not have let the ash soldiers lose on him like that!' He thought as he saw Jake walk beside him silently. The sweat on his forehead was constantly increasing. "Jake," Alpha called him. "Shocked?" "I am, well not because they nearly had me. But because the other alpha is in a stronger position than us if he re
39. Weak, Intolerable Human, Aria Wright."A marriage with your son?" Alpha Killian's pupils amplified in daze."Yeah, with my middle son, Caleb." Arthur made a disgusted face. "Though he was mad when I pitched the plan to him that it can be temporary if Zavier ever agreed. He straightaway said no. Caleb also threatened me that he'd have multiple lovers and mistresses if I forced him to marry Zavier's daughter.""Has he seen Aria before?""I don't think so, but he thinks she's ugly weak girl and he needs no such girl as his future partner.""Did Caleb find his second chance mate? As far as I know, your son rejected his first mate." Alpha asked.To which Arthur nodded in a no with a sour expression, "He doesn't want a destined mate. Caleb's mindset is weird. He wants to settle down with the girl he falls in love with. And that little, worthless, human bitch of Zavier is the last girl he wants to think about."Al
123Jake's POV The last time I felt humiliated in my life was when— I clearly remember that day like it happened yesterday— I was an eight year old child and in a summer camp. My father had accompanied me as it was a condition of the camp to have at least one parent coming with their child.Mom was usually committed to pre-scheduled parties with other Lunas and was too stubborn to cancel them for a camp which she stated would be too boring for her. But I wanted to go as all my friends were going. That's when dad canceled some of his meetings, which as an alpha he shouldn't have, and came with me.The part where I felt utterly humiliated was when I was reciting the poem I've written for my father. It was a task given to all the children. We were asked to write either an essay or a poem for our parents. I wanted to outshine other kids and show that I was a future alpha, and hence, I chose to write a rhyming poem while everyone else stuck with writing an essay.And as I was extremely eag
122. "My father only loves his reputation and power. Don't worry about him. He would hardly feel bad if I left." I remarked with no expression. "But he's your father. How could you—" "You can't convince me to stay, Harry. I've made up my mind. I'm going to take them down, no matter what it costs." "Uncle Zavier will not appreciate this. I don't think he would like it if he knows you're joining the war he himself is staying away from." Harry shook his head clearly indicating that he wasn't going to take me along. It made my anger worse. I seethed and grabbed the front of his shirt. "I'm not a child anymore. I'm a warrior and this is my fight. Don't try to take that away from me, Harry. If dad wants to stay away then it is his choice. I can't leave my family to thrive alone when I know I have the ability to and I can help them win."Harry remained firm on his words but the need to get away from this pack and its people made me try harder to convince him. "You don't know what it's
121The addition she made regarding Jake made my eyes burn. I felt my limbs quivering. That all-encompassing feeling of pain washed over me again and I found myself staring at Harry, who was watching me have a battle with my wolf. "It's okay if you don't believe me, Aria. But maybe this will help you know I am not making up stories." He said as he passed his phone to me. I took it with shaking hands and played the video that was on pause. A corrosive pain shot up my spine and burst forth in my entire body. My knees gave way, and I fell on the floor. My agonized sobs bounced off the walls as I cried my heart out. I desperately wished it wasn’t true, but like every other cruel reality I’ve faced, the video was undeniably real.Jake was talking about me in the video with Kai and Neil. They were teasing him by taking my name and he rolled his eyes. They asked if it was genuine this time but Jake laughed out loud and said he wouldn't be tolerating me if I wasn't my father's daughter.I
120"Let me start from the start, Aria. That way you'll get a better idea of what I'm trying to tell you... Actually, our grandfather used to be one of the greatest and strongest Alphas of his time. He had a huge flourishing pack named Berrywood Pack. All of us were happy in our lives, and then, one day your father came to visit our pack to help us.""Rogues have always been a problem, Aria. They were a little more daring in the past than they are now. In the past, they would just pick up any she-wolf or girl child they liked and had their way with them. Or worse, pick an entire pack and threaten them to send a woman on a daily basis to them. And if their conditions weren't agreed with, they would declare war. That's why your father was invited by our grandfather to kill these rampant rogues and finish their terror forever."Harry's eyes gleamed as he went on, "None of us knew that your father would find his mate in our pack, and that it would be none other than the Alpha's Daughter,
119Aria's POVMy fingers twitched and my forearms numbed from the onset of overwhelming emotions that surged through my body. My face was tingling and my jaw had become stiff. I couldn't move my jaw, much less part it and breathe.I was desperately struggling to regain control but I felt as though I was pushed, head deep, in freezing water. And no matter how much I struggled to come back on the surface, it was futile.A point came when I fell on my side and ended up curling myself into a ball. I covered my head with my hands, my entire body buzzing with a tingling sensation.Was this death? Is this how it felt when your soul left your body?I won't know whether or not it was death because the moment I willingly closed my eyes to accept the end of my life— which I thought it was— I sensed warm arms lifting me up.My body teetered as someone held me close to a warm chest and began to walk. The foul smell of garbage began to drift away, indicating that I was being carried away to a bette
118Aria's POVAfter leaving my house and Kai and Daisy in it, I rushed into a dark alley to cry my heart out. I was in pain I couldn't narrate. My heart was hurting from Jake's ignorance while my body vibrated from the after-effects of my mate's force used on me. My life went from bright to dark overnight. I was made to pay for a mistake I didn't even commit. My wolf was howling for respite. We both needed some rest. All these hours we tolerated since the morning has taken a toll on her. However, we refused to relax. Not now. Not when our eyes were blazing with the fire of revenge. Melody and I have vowed to not sit quiet until we settled scores with Noah Rhodes. That bastard caught us off guard. He attacked me when I was not prepared. But now my veins were fueled with aggression, my limbs aching to fight back. My mind was compelling me to use all the tricks I have learned from my father through intense training. I moved in the darkness as I made my way to Noah's house in search o
117"How dare you play such a trick on me?" Noah's voice bounced off the walls. He picked up Aria from over the broken bed and clutched her hair tightly, making her wail. He pulled them in a merciless joke as his canines surfaced. His muscles convulsed in fury as he brought his face closer to Aria, "It was Jake's idea, wasn't it? He asked you to do this to trouble me.""Aah!" Aria's body was a huge ball of pain. She tapped on his wrist so he would let go. Alas, enraged like an uncontrollable bull, Noah tossed her across the room again. Aria fell on her weak study table, crushing it under her. She hissed with thick tears streaming out of her eyes as a pointed piece of wood pierce her inner thigh. Noah didn't show any pity as he raised her by her hair again. Her scalp ached as a thousands brightly blinking stars burst across her vision. "I detest Moon goddess for mating me with a gold digging whóre like you. You are despicable and..." His words faded out as Aria's senses spun into
116Aria walked on the quiet road on light feet. She was feeling cold and had to wrap her arms around herself. The winds were piercing into her skin and the dust it carried swirled around her. She shuffled her feet ahead with teary eyes as she wondered where to go.She just returned from the club she heard the girls mention in the library. It turned out that Jake left an hour before she reached there. Then she went to his home, the alpha mansion. Unfortunately, there were a dozen expensive cars lining outside the mansion. The alpha probably had visitors, and thus she couldn't gather up the courage to walk into that house while powerful people occupied it.There could be one, if not all, disliking her father. She was too frightened to appear in front of any such person who could take a dig at her to humiliate the most feared hunter in the pack. That being said, she left without meeting Jake.Now as she started her walk to nowhere, she reminiscenced the times she spent with Jake. He had
115. Truth out in front of Daisy "I hate her for hurting Lana, Kai. I will never forgive her."She banded her hands around his waist stiffly and wailed. "She not only cheated on Jake and my sister but on me too. I trusted and loved her just like Lana. Why did she have to do that? She was very well versed with the fact that Noah was dating my sister. But she still kissed him." Kai chewed the inside of his cheek agitatedly. He wished to tell her about Noah and Aria being each other's mate but he bit it down. It wasn't his place to tell her. But he definitely needed to make her see some sense and not entirely blame Aria for the kiss. "Do you realize this wouldn't have happened if Aria didn't go to the old age home with you?" "What are you insinuating, Kai Sinclair? Do you want to say that I influenced Aria to do that." Daisy's voice hardened ruthlessly. "All I'm saying is that Aria isn't the only one who you should condemn. Noah is equally—" "What's wrong with you, Kai?" Daisy pus