CORDELIA'S POV:I crept through the forest, keeping my steps low and silent as I trailed behind Aria. There's no doubt about it, she's really the weakest of the weak wolves. Any normal wolf would have been able to sense my presence a long time ago. "How adorable," I muttered to myself, covering my mouth as I giggled. "So adorable, I wish a wild animal would emerge and tear her to pieces."I'd been keeping an eye on her ever since her entire show of "creeping" out of the pack. Did she really think I would let her go after all she had done?!I grit my teeth, doing my best to control my anger but failing at it. My life was perfect! I had everything! Until this bitch showed up!All she ever did was steal my shine, my man, and my plan to be Luna. After all, I had planned. I had to have patience to see if Anthony would look at me like a man should look at a woman. He never did!But when this weakling showed up, he changed. The way he looks at her, his eyes. He had never looked at me that w

ARIA'S POV:How frustrating, how utterly and completely frustrating. Annoying! I couldn't stop myself from pacing around my room. I had gone, out and asked some of the pack members and some of the other elders I had met at the festival, and I got the same answer from everyone. "Sorry, there's no one like that in this pack.""Are you certain you saw well? There's no one like that.""I'm sorry, but no one fits that description."I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Every single time! So, are they trying to tell me that I saw a ghost, or that I was just making things up?This is insane! My mind was a battlefield of thoughts. Why did he tell me to forget about my search when I had not even discovered anything?My head was spinning. It felt like I had been turning and running in circles without getting anywhere. Everything just led to a dead end. Every single time,.Should I just get information from my uncle? I could just ask him. He must know, mustn't he? No!! What am I thinking? I can't

ARIA'S POV:Slamming the door behind me, I stormed up to the bed and threw myself over it. I hit my pillow off of my bed. He knew! He knew about the secret war! Why wouldn't he tell me? What's so bad that he won't tell me?!Why would he tell me to forget about it? Why was mom telling me to forget about it? Why was that mysterious elder telling me to forget it? Why! Why!Sitting up in bed, I inhaled to calm myself down a little bit. Something is really off here in this pack. I could feel it, but I just couldn't place what it was.What if I just go to Nightfang and ask the elders, or perhaps the council, about it? For two seconds, it seems like the best idea. But then I quickly shut it down. What a stupid idea that would be. I couldn't risk my life for that.Everything was just... so overwhelming. I reached out to take my pillow and remembered I had thrown it off the bed. Standing up to get it, I stubbed my toe in the corner of my bed's frame.The pain went straight to my brain, causin

ARIA'S POVClosing the study behind me, the diary clutched tightly to my chest, I walked as fast as I could back to my room. Once I got to my room, I shut the door behind me, making sure to bolt it. I walked over to the bed and sat on it, bringing the diary up to my eye level and staring at it. It seemed like this was my mom's main dairy, based on its appearance. She must have been looking for it, which made her write in the other one I found in her room. At least that was what I deducted. But why was it in Uncle Jeremiah's study and not in her room? Didn't she hide it properly?This diary was a mighty one, big and heavy. The cover was lilac, decorated with drawings of hearts and sparkles. The spine had been cracked over and over again, and the pages were unable to lay flat because of how many times they had been written inside. But it was mostly still intact. It was so big that I wondered when I would even complete the reading, it surely won't be today.Opening the first two page

ARIA'S POV:After a long time, the tears stopped flowing. I stood up from the bench and left the garden for my room. I walked back to my room pulling my legs with me as if there were a heavy burden. The weight in my heart had spread round my body and I felt very heavy.As I walked through the hallway, my mind was not with me, it was deep down in the pain and agony of my heart.Walking through the hallway, I heard greetings of servants and guards directed at me but it all sounded like it was far away from me. I was lost in my head, lost in my heart. I didn't know the next step to take, all I could think about was that my younger sister was pregnant for my husband or rather, my ex-husband and it hurt me so much. I couldn't even explain how it felt. I just felt like I was being strangled. My heart felt like it was being embraced by a thousand and one daggers. The pain was so much that I had to force my lungs to receive the air that I was breathing.The feeling was painful yet numb. It