Ariana's POVI looked at all of them around the table one by one until my eyes landed on the face of the last person. That was Diana and she was the one still holding my hand. My eyes trailed down her face to her chin and then to my hand in her hand. After a while of looking around like that, I spoke."So you are ready to tell me what I want to hear, right?" I asked and I wasn't just referring to Diana alone. I was referring to all of them. At this point, other people in the dining hall were looking toward our table and they were fixated on the scene going on before them especially since it involved Diana and her group of friends. They all looked at each other, a type of silent communication passing through them and they nodded to Diana one after the other. She nodded back to them and turned her gaze back to me before she nodded. "Yes," she said. "We are ready. We are ready to tell you about it.""Okay then," I replied. "Thank you."Since my hand was still in hers, she stood up, tur

Ariana's POVHenry and Claire used to be in a relationship? How and when? It was hard to imagine them being together because their personalities were so different. While Henry was was nice, friendly and charming, Claire on the other hand was sarcastic, a bit mean and quite unfriendly when she set her mind to it. After all, it had taken a private encounter with her to get her to accept me as a friend. If I hadn't gone to the infirmiry that day, I knew that we would never have become close because she wouldn't have given me a chance. That was how she was. So the main point I was trying to make here was that Claire and Henry were polar opposites. I disregarded that shit that people always said: opposites attract. While it might have been true for other aspects of life, it couldn't be true for relationships. Sure the two people in a relationship couldn't be the same to a T, but at least, they were supposed to have many similarities. They were supposed to have things in common so that the

Ariana's POV"You met Claire at the infirmiry? When did that happen?" Diana asked me. "Yes, I did. We met about a week ago.""But just this morning, you told me you and Claire hadn't met outside the dining hall. You should have just told me. You know it is not a big deal, right?""Yeah, I do, and I know that I have not been completely honest with you. Just know that I am sorry about that. I want to tell you everything now. I want to tell you everything that I have been hiding from you.""Since you are ready now, I am all ears. Go on," Diana said.Then I started. "On the day that I decided to start attending culinary classes with the permission of the Alpha, I discovered something. I was on my way to the wing where the culinary school was when I heard a deeply harrowing sound. It made me curious and I was determined to find out the cause so I decided to trace the sourse of the sound. I followed it until I discovered that what I was hearing was a man's scream. That still didn't stop me

Ariana's POVHe what? Diana had asked. She was looking at me now with shock displayed clearly on her face. "Calm down, Diana. I can explain," I told her, trying to get her to calm down."I am calm," she said. "But wait a minute. You said you and Henry were in here. How is that possible? Alpha Derek never sends Henry in here, talk more of you. What is going on?" There was a look of incredulity across her face now as she spoke, her eyes darting around my face, trying to look for something, probably answers inside my eyes.I placed a hand on her shoulders. "Look, Diana. Don't get it wrong. I will explain everything to you and I will start from the beginning so that you can understand," I said."Okay. Go on," she said, leaning back into her chair and preparing herself to listen to the story I wanted to tell her."Well, it started in this way. As I have already told you before, I was walking to the Alpha's office when Henry called out to me and asked me to stop. Then when he got to me, we

Ariana's POVAs I lowered my head and gazed at the massive frame of Alpha Derek, I almost gasped out in shock. I was already trembling slightly, thinking of what would go down now that he had seen me and his sister coming out of his private library when he hadn't authorized us to enter into it in the first place. I raised my head up slowly and I saw that Alpha Derek was gazing at us with neither a look of anger nor delight. His face didn't reflect any of that. In fact, no other emotion showed on his handsome and perfectly sculpted face. He was just looking at us indifferently. And then I wondered why I was even thinking about his face and I realized that thoughts of his face entered into my mind more often that I would have liked to admit."Good day, Alpha," Diana greeted as if Alpha Derek wasn't her brother. So this was how they related? Wow! I never knew that.After Diana's greeting, a ghost of a smile came over Alpha Derek's face and I almost fell to the floor because of shock. Wa