CORDELIA'S POV"There is nothing to be restless about.""I told you! Didn't I?!" I yelled at Dane, anger and frustration written all over me. "I told you that Anthony wouldn't let that bitch that was here go! I told you that he would come looking for her!" I was pacing around his study, anger fuming through my bones. "You told me that he wouldn't find her here, that he couldn't!""That's why you are bothered." Dane said not feeling the least bit of what I was feeling. Instead, he wore that stupid face of fake calmness he always had. "I see.""What is wrong with you!?" I screamed, clawing at his study table, tearing books while causing some to fall off the table. "Don't you get my point?" I asked, strolling to where he sat. "She was rescued by the one person you told me would not come looking for her. And now, she's out there, safe and sound, while we are here doing what?!""Planning a next step." He said, putting his leg on the table I had clawed at."A next step?" I couldn't believe w

ARIA'S POV"Long time no see, damsel." Cordelia said to me, stopping just a few inches ahead.All the fear that I had felt before, when Claire came running to me, dissipated. Only two things were certain about Cordelia's appearance here at the Lycan Pack.One, she had been tracking me to know when Anthony and Elijah were absent for her to invade the pack, and two, she was here for me."Indeed, it sure has been a long time." I responded to her 'heartfelt' greeting. "How have you been?" I asked her, placing Claire down and resting her unconscious body on the wall.Cordelia scoffed at my question. "How have I been?""I thought we were exchanging pleasantries?" I asked, standing straight up after I had placed Claire against the wall. "Are we not?" I asked Cordelia."What does it look like here?" She inquired, staring at me with murderous eyes."It looks like you are not doing fine." I said maintaining my ground.She angrily charged at me with her claws, which I dodged without breaking a s

86 head high, my love.ANTHONY'S POVI could have just snapped his neck the instant he had told me everything! Why did I hesitate? Why?I was fuming when I came out of the meeting room. "Let's go!" I said to Elijah when we were finally outside.Aria, Aria... I couldn't imagine the look on her face when she hears what I have to tell her. But first, I needed to calm myself down so that I could also calm her down when she receives the news.The ride back to my pack seemed like an eternity. Time went by so slow while my thoughts went here and there. When we got to Nightfang, I was relieved that the journey had come to an end.The pack seemed different compared to when I had left this morning. The greetings from the servants, maids, guards as well as other pack members seemed to have an undertone in them.Elijah and I both looked at each other sensing the difference in the pack."Do you feel what I'm feeling?" Elijah whispered to me."I have to find out." I said to Elijah walking up to on