62. It's not over yet.Lana stuck closer to Noah, who seemed to have lost his wits. They witnessed Aria giving a kick in Veronica's side of the waist. "Don't you dare mess with me again." She flared her hair in Jake's frozen face not before giving Noah a deathly look.While everyone in the classroom clenched their teeth in agony at the scraped flesh of the Butt of Veronica, Aria dashed out and came to the library. She deposited her bag on the desk and sunk in her favorite chair in the corner of the room away from the entire place. Throwing her head in her hands, she closed her eyes and breathed deeply to bring herself in control.'Well, I won't say I am disappointed since you didn't let me out. I'd say I'm freaking proud of you for teaching that witch a perfect lesson that she deserved.' Melody spoke to her.However, Aria didn't feel what she did was right. She was not the type of person who'd hurt someone against the hurt they cau
63. Goodbye For Good! Jake never felt this intimidated before. And across whom? A girl! He stood consciously under Aria's scrutinizing gaze as he threw sharp and venomous daggers at his friend holding his hand."Let go." Jake said severely."Come on, don't be ridiculous. There's no way you are leaving it whatever that is you have between yourselves unfinished." Neil jumped in their conversation while Aria gaped at them curiously."Stop it." Jake eyed them.Neil refused to listen to him and faced Aria, "He's my best friend and I care for him more than my mate. So Aria, there's something you need to know about him." Jake tried to pull him away. "All this while whenever we bullied you, it was done on Jake's insistence.""What?" Aria's eyes were sharp and assessing."Jake made us do it… so that he could come and be the savior of your life. So you noticed him." He turned to shrug at Jake. "
64. GriefWhen Aria punched that out, Jake never assumed she would abide by her words. Because after that conversation with Jake, she never spared him a look. Ten days down in their lives, and she had still not looked at him. She didn't have any time to look at him provided that she made friends and they kept her entertained. Kai's mate, Daisy, was one of them. She disliked Kai and the gang of his bully friends. She was a feminist and the talks of Kai and his notorious friends led her to maintain distance from him. No matter how much Kai attempted, she found a way to ignore and piss him. When Daisy perceived Aria had problems with the same boys group, she quickly became friends with her. Then there was Patty, a girl from the preceding grade aka their junior. The little nerd was being pestered by the boys of her class when Aria found her. This led to expansion to her friend circle, and now she had three other shy nerds from Patty's grade. Aria did not feel ashamed hanging out with j
65. Aria's First Date!She looked at the closed door and then behind herself at the complete darkness. A feeling of beingstuck, being committed to this moment, pierced through her veins and settled like congealed sludge in her belly.Talk? What talk was he talking about? If he thought she was okay with getting humiliated and then approached again for the same thing she was humiliated for then he was wrong. She wasn't going to get along with this easily. Because Aria was super mad. Even enraged.'At least he's making an effort to talk.' Melody rolled her eyes as she recalled Noah and his selfish ass. That jerk never approached her at all.She shoved that remark away and focused on the handsome face that's coming to annoy her now. His words bit through her heart that day. Aria recalled how much she'd cried that night to the pillow.She's never felt so bad. Yes she was an omega. Yes her status was low in the pack. Yes nothing c
66. Shopping For Her First Date Aria tried on another dress and stepped out of the changing room to stop in front of Daisy, "What do you think?"Bright afternoon light made her dark blue off-shoulder dress shimmer. It was small and ended above her mid thighs. The fitting was perfect... As if it was made exclusively for Aria."Gurlll, I wanna kiss the heck out of your face." Daisy's animated expression heated up her face."Erm, does this suit me?""Suit you? Baby, this color is made for you." Daisy grabbed her shoulders and swirled her around.Aria prayed she must not slip and fall since her feet were adorned with high heeled glossy stilettos with cute shimmery butterflies under her ankles on both sides."Tony will lose his fucking brains right after the first glance. You have no idea how pretty you are looking!" Thankfully Daisy stopped spinning her around. Aria walked towards the wall of the mirror and saw herself. 'Gosh, I would marry you if I could, Aria!' Melody made her laugh a
67. One Night Stand With Tony!!!! "I agree Kai is very bad, but not to the extent that I should be holding him at an arm's length." Daisy said with an apologetic smile as if it was a hard thing she had to do to change her boy. "I let him make love to me so he knows I am still his. And as long as he does not bully innocent people, I let him have me one day out of seven. But when he changes completely, which I think will take a while, then he can have me every night as long as he doesn't impregnate me."Aria forced a smile and pulled the bag of her dress to stare into it to excuse herself for a while. In the last ten days, the pain caused by Jake's harshness was the second reason that made her cry at night. The first reason was the tearing pain in her heart that emancipated from Noah's adultery with her oh-so-lovely girlfriend aka her best friend's sister, Lana. He had had sex with her eight times out of ten days. And the pain sprouted from it was like a fork scraping at her heart i
68. Aria in danger?!! She was cute. Her bond with Kai was so messed up yet so pure. They acted crazy all the time in school. But their chemistry in private was like a goal other couples would love to achieve. Kai was a good mate. He was outdoing himself. "Daisy," Aria called for her with her heart settling down in distress as she thought about her own mate. "What would you have done if Kai was a heartless mate?" "Heartless mate?" Daisy turned back to Aria, the redness of her cheeks gone. "I mean to say.. What would have been between you two if he was selfish?" "Can you elaborate a little more? You know I am a slow learner.""Okay, so what I mean to say is that if your mate was bad to you, always hurt you, never believed you even if the truth was clear in front of him, dated another girl, had sex with her all the time without caring about how you'd feel, and if he never came to your help when you were in need of a rescue... What would you've done then? How would you have dealt wit
69. Preparing for the date The following day arrived and passed by like a ride in a ferris wheel. Too short to do a thing. Aria sighed at the clock and then at her dress that was nearly placed on the bed with her sandals and jewelry she was going to wear with it."Uff, Aria, you're still not ready?" Daisy walked in her room with wide eyes."I've been preparing all day but still..." Aria forwarded her wet painted nails. "I am still not ready.""Well I can see that. It's twenty-five to nine, Aria! You need to hurry." Daisy set her side bag aside and rushed out of Aria's room. She returned with a bowl of water, "Here, dip your nails in the water.""But they're wet!" "I know, silly. This is cold water. It'll help set your polish faster without ruining it. And you don't have to sit under the fan to dry it." Aria didn't protest. She quickly put her hands in the water and bit her lips. It was cold. She can feel the tips of her fingers getting numb. But it was worth it if it saved her tim
119Aria'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
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
114. No more friends from now on! Aria tried to rein in her breaths after coming to the sports ground. She held onto the railing around the sitting area and pressed her lips together. Her body wasn't helping her. She sat down in the stand and buried her face in her hands. 'Aria, you are making it more difficult for us. Do you know that?' Melody whispered in a heavy voice. As a wolf, things were already messed up for her. Her mate didn't want her. He was dating and making out with another she-wolf in the name of punishing Aria and her. There was Jake to care for them and help them get back at the fucker. But right now he was also mourning for betrayal Aria never meant to commit. It wasn't entirely a betrayal. She was forced to kiss. There were no sparks and most importantly it disgusted them both. "I can't put their words in the back of my mind, Melody. My heart is squeezing. I don't know what to feel." Aria breathed ruggedly. The sky was a deep, foreboding gray, with clouds that
113. He's hurt Aria appraised them closely. Their dresses caught the light in the library, specifying they've never been off the racks of their wardrobes before this. Their hair done flawlessly in parlours and their nails painted and shaped in different ways.One of the three girls, dressed in a yellow dress, scoffed and rolled her eyes, "Aria's finally getting exposed for the trash she is. That photo of her kissing Noah had left me motionless for long minutes. How could she do that?""You're right. I was in the middle of getting my eyebrows done when that photo came. Ugh, that girl's a disgusting, manipulative liar. She thinks she's so perfect with her fake smile and her 'oh, I'm so in love with Jake' act." The second girl on the table who had the longest and pointed nails spoke with contempt. Aria moved back into the shadows behind the shelves after hearing that. She felt a jab of pain in her heart for being called a manipulative liar too. 'Don't, Aria. You just promised me that
112. Craving for Jake Aria was clueless. Her mind was a maze covered with fog and her heart running wildly like an out of control stallion in her chest. She blinked her lashes to clean the mist of tears, except the burn remained. It made the back of her eyes throb while her throat became thick.She was unable to breath, her skin growing hotter and hotter, the rush of adrenaline becoming intense. She tried not to hyperventilate but the event that just transpired, the pushes she tolerated, the malice she detected in her one and only best friend's eyes along with the condemnation she saw in Kai's expressions, it was difficult not to.Aria walked on light feet, too afraid to make a noise. Her heart throbbed everywhere in her body. Her fingers twitched and her toes curled in her shoes. She took small and unnoticeable steps towards the library while she attempted to walk by the wall to avoid curious eyes. She was majorly on the receiving end of hostility at the moment. But her luck gave h
111. Go away, Aria! "K-kai," Aria blinked her teary eyes as relief washed over her.Kai was Jake's best friend. As much as he was faithful to Jake, he respected her. Aria had this feeling that Kai would hold her trembling frame— like the nice guy and good friend that he was— and wipe her tears.Unfortunately, the moment she rushed towards him on her shivery legs, he bared his canines for her to see as his warning."K-kai?" Aria experienced a brief moment of cardiac arrest, watching Kai give her that look.He sized her up with eyes clouded with anger and drawled grimly, "I am ashamed of myself for liking you, Aria. How could you do this?"Aria fought to breathe. Dragging in a series of sharp, gasping breaths as she struggled to maintain eye contact. The world around her has turned to a blank space. She saw nothing. She noticed nothing. She could hear nothing except for Kai's angry heartbeats and his breaths coming out heavily as he struggled to keep his fury in control. "Jake loved y
110. Go back to dirt Aria came back home. She realized that she was all sweaty and jittery the minute she sat down on the couch in the living room. Her face was scorching from Noah's touch, her lips bleeding from too much biting.To say he was her mate, but nothing about the kiss made her stomach drop. It only distressed her. It felt like hot, hot boiling water was poured on her.Getting up, she quickly darted inside the restroom and removed her clothes. She stood under the cold water and put her hands on the wall of tiles as she slumped her head, breathing ruggedly.She felt disgusted. Her lips felt violated. Tremors billowed up her spine as Aria vigorously rubbed her lips to wash the touch of Noah's lips.It felt like she cheated on Jake, and the feeling pressed down on her.Aria came out and put on Jake's tee that he happily gave to her. Like those girlfriends who relished wearing their boyfriend's t-shirts as night dress in novels, Aria wanted to recreate it. Thus she requested