Sharp Breaks

ARIA'S POV.

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I coughed up blood again, and felt weakened, like I couldn't hold on anymore. Back then, thinking of meeting my mother had actually done something awful to me. It made me wonder if death could really take me to her.

It wasn't like I didn't want to hold on, I was just tired. The pain in my stomach was too much, and so much blood had run up my nose that it stung, and my throat felt sore.

When the dead bodies left me, my senses had returned, but my eyesight was dimming.

And I wondered… Am I dying? Would just a single trick from the forest kill me just like that?

I had attacked with all my might, not knowing I was fighting with the one I could never overpower.

Aiden, seeing me as a monster, would have attacked fiercely. My screams must have been roars to him, and my gasps of pain, snarls.

“Aria… stop.” Lucien suddenly said, and I realized my own eyes had been closing without me knowing it. “Hang in there. Don't close those eyes.” He ordered, laying me against the tree, as