Aria"I said no!" Aria whispered, yelling at General Caldwell. "Why are you in the palace? Didn't Prince Zane tell you not to come to the palace again until he calls for you?" Aria asks the unreasonable man in front of her.Her mate was making her angry, he wanted to ruin her life against her wishes. General Caldwell had sent Radford to call Aria so that they could meet each other in secret. Aria at first didn't want to come but decided to because she knew how stubborn General Caldwell could be. Aria was expecting another confession of love from him, along with words that spoke of how much he missed her. Aria didn't expect that General Caldwell was going to ask her to run away with him so that they could be together. "Don't you love me, lady Aria?" 'no.' Aria thought firmly. spending so much time with him preaching about how much he loved her and wanted to be with her was starting to help Aria get anything that had to do with him out of her system. She could control her wolf desire

AriaAria struggled to set herself free from the rope General Caldwell tied her with, her little strength wasn't working. The rope wasn't made of silver or wolfband but Aria kept struggling against something that used to be easy for her. All her werewolf strength had been locked away by Elqenna's pendant. Aria was now starting to wish that the pendant was strong enough to go against her mate bond, that way, her wolf would also be locked away, and then she could fully hate General Caldwell without holding back because he was her mate."If you don't let me go, someone is going to notice that I'm missing." "Do you think that I don't know that lady Aria?" General Caldwell snaps at her. Even though Aria didn't want to feel hurt by his actions, she couldn't stop herself from feeling that way, her wolf was already feeling betrayed."I'm sorry." Caldwell gently brushes a strand of Aria hairs away from her eyes, she tries to push him away with her head. "Don't lie to me, if you are truly so

Aria"Aren't we going to Lady Brunhilda lessons today?" Aria asks dully. She didn't care about the lessons and didn't want to go. But she didn't want Erika to know her true feelings."No. We are staying in the room, all day today." Erika arranges the bed. "Why?" Aria asks, "Was it Prince Zane's orders?" His name brought a bitter taste to her mouth as she thought of the way he killed her mate the other night in front of her. "No, it was me. Prince Zane isn't aware that I want you to stay in the room today, but we can go out on a stroll if you want." Erika changed the bedsheets, and for a second she stopped and smiled warmly at Aria, "Don't tell me that you are not okay with it, unless he knows. I thought of telling Prince Zane about my idea, but I didn't because I knew he would say yes to it anyway." Aria sat down on the chair in the room, from her seat, she could see the throne-like chair Prince Zane liked to sit on whenever he wanted to intimidate her. She glared at the seat as th

Aria"What did you plan to do if General Caldwell had successfully freed you from those ropes?" Prince Zane asks Aria. Aria wiped the tears that were running down her eyes with her hand."Would you have told him the same secret you shared with me after taking off your necklace? I'm sure you wanted him to accept you so that you could run away with him just like he wanted." Aria stared at Prince Zane's back, his back was still facing her. General Caldwell was dead, no one was planning to run away anymore, and yet Prince Zane sounded like he was jealous and angry. Aria thought of his questions, a part of her wanted General Caldwell to know the truth, perhaps she would have been able to like him for real if he was able to accept her, maybe she would have willingly run away with him. "I don't know." Aria lied."Remember the question I asked you months ago about your mate?" Prince Zane asks, "Are all werewolves like you? Full of lies and always go against their words?"Aria couldn't mus

AriaPrince Zane had picked a day to burn General Caldwell's body without even letting his father say a last goodbye to his son. Aria could still feel her ghostly past with General Caldwell, even though her life was supposed to feel normal. The feelings she had in her heart for her mate's murderer weren't normal, Aria wanted to get rid of it but it was hard. She had never felt this way for anyone before and Aria couldn't understand why she had feelings for Prince Zane. She had thought to herself countless times, but still couldn't think of any reason why she would have any sort of romantic feelings for Prince Zane. He was a blind handsome man, with beautiful silver eyes that were able to draw her in. His mind along with his heart were corrupt with evil. So what was it about him did she fell for? His sinister smile? No that wasn't good enough. Was it his attitude of treating everyone like his toy?Aria shook her head in frustration, she had got to be sick in the head if she fell for h