ARIA'S POV:The letter read:"Alpha Logan, how have you been? How is Nightfang? I trust you are taking care of it as you should, considering that you are a very powerful Alpha.Inasmuch as being the alpha of a pack as great as Nightfang is burdensome, you shouldn't have left your wife for so long, even if she insisted it was just to rest. She's lonely without you, she misses you.So I am writing this letter to ask when you would come visiting the Zilam pack. Your wife wants to see you and it's been a long time since Zilam last set its eyes on you."Yours trulyAlpha Jeremiah, alpha of Zilam pack.(Your wife's uncle)"How could Uncle Jeremiah write this without confirming with me? Right in front of Aunty Lilian's confused face, I folded the paper and ripped it to shreds."Why... Why did you rip the letter?" She asked, completely confused. Her eyes, wide with shock as she stared at the pieces falling to the ground."Tell Uncle Jeremiah that if anyone has to send a letter to Logan, it's
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:By the time I had recovered from the shock of finding the mysterious elder's picture in my mom's diary, it was already six a.m. No matter how much I tried to force myself to sleep, I just couldn't. So I just laid in bed, doing nothing but staring at the ceiling. My mind was a battlefield. The thoughts in my head just kept ramming into each other.A knock at the door brought me back to my senses."Come in." I said. Auntie Lilian walked in, surprised to see me in bed looking at the ceiling."Good morning, Aunty Lillian." I greeted, not taking my eyes off ceiling."Morning too, Aria." She said, looking at me with confused eyes.She left for the bathroom to fix me a bath. When she was done, she went to my wardrobe to bring out my clothes for the morning and for breakfast."The bath is ready, Aria." She said.I was too engrossed in my thoughts to even hear her. Her voice just felt like background noise to me. It was there, but just in the background."Your bath is ready, Aria
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
ARIA'S POV:The Crescent Pack men were here! I gasped. How much worse could my day get?What did they want? What does Dane want this time? I asked myself. How did he even find me?Turning to me, uncle Jeremiah said in a warning tone."You stay here Aria, no matter what comes up, no matter what happens, do not come out. Is that understood?" He said.Without waiting for my response, he left with his beta to go and investigate what going on outside.After he had left, I followed him knowing that if there was any reason why Dane is here, then he was here for only one reason and I was the reason.But if I was the reason, who had given him Intel on where I was?I trailed behind my uncle and his beta in such a way that they wouldn't notice that I was following them.Keeping a safe distance from them, I watched as they walked outside with guards on each of their sides.Then I saw him, my worst nightmare, Dane. There he stood in the middle of the village with his men as if he owned the place.
42ANTHONY'S POV:For the past twenty five minutes I had been sitting at the breakfast table, I had not taken a bite of the food in front of me.I was unaware of my surroundings, and all I could think of was that it had been weeks now and still, no sign of Aria. Where could she have gone? I asked my thoughts.I had sent out the first group of people under the guidance of Elijah to find her, they had found nothing. A few days ago, I sent out another group to find her.I had been waiting for Elijah's reply for days, but I hadn't seen him or returned. As I sat there looking at the food in front of me, I lost appetite.Unable to continue eating, I rose from the seat and left for my study. Finally, in my study, I found it difficult to relax. My thoughts were all over the place. Not too long into my time at the study, I began to pace.Pacing around in my study, I couldn't feel at ease. Why did she have to leave? Was it because I was too harsh with her about the purging? Was she tired of my
ARIA'S POV:Blinking, I could hear voices and laughter. It took a while for my eyes to adjust to the light, as well as for my mind to register that I was no longer in the Zilam pack.I was in the Crescent Pack! Again!Looking around, I realized that I was on the floor of the dungeon. I tried to rise, but I could not. My entire body was full of aches. It felt like I had fallen from the fifteenth floor of a building, and then been hit and beaten to pulp.With every move I made, pain was the outcome. Moving my leg was like moving a very heavy sack of bricks that weighed a ton.My head itself felt too heavy to carry. Trying to rise the first time, I fell. The second time, I could only manage to get up on one leg, and then, with a thump, I fell back down.After many attempts, I just decided to lay back on the floor until I was sure that I could rise without much issue.Footsteps were approaching the cell I stayed in. Outside the cell bars, a pair of feet stopped in front of me. "We meet a
ARIA'S POV:The dungeon returned to normal after the show I had put on. Guards continued carrying out their duties.Sitting on the floor with my back against the wall, I felt weak and hopeless. I stared at the dungeon's bars with a blank mind.For what seemed like hours, I sat there, unmoving. Until there seemed to be a grave silence all over the dungeon,. From the cell I was in, I could hear echoes of "my lord" resonating from all angles of the dungeon, followed by footsteps directed towards my cell.As the footsteps drew closer, flashbacks of the last time I had been here began to come to me.My breathing began to come in short, interrupted breaths. I could feel my heart wanting to jump out. My heartbeat accelerated, and all I could hear was the sound of the footsteps coming in my direction.Mustering up all the courage I had, I looked up just in time, and the owner of the footsteps stopped in front of me.Dane Seymour.The perpetuator of evil, the devil himself. The alpha of the C