Mag-log inAria's POVThe silence stretched so long that I could hear my own breathing, every face in the room was turned toward me. Every pair of eyes waited not for the truth, but for my explanation. My gaze remained fixed on the tablet resting on the table, my own voice still echoing inside my head."If Dam
Aria’s POVThe silence after Kade’s mother spoke didn’t break immediately. It settled instead, thick and suffocating, like the room itself had decided it was finished listening to me.My hands were still hovering over the table when the voice note began to play and at first, it sounded like static,
Aria’s POVThe air in the sitting room felt wrong the moment I stepped inside, it wasn’t just the silence, it was the kind of silence that carried weight, like everyone inside had already agreed on a version of events I hadn’t even been told yet. My hand was still on the door handle when I noticed
The door opened before I realized I had stopped moving entirely.Thorne stepped aside without speaking. “She’s here,” he said quietly.I looked up to see Aria standing in the doorway.Real. Present. Unaware of what had already been decided in the room she was about to step into and for the first tim
Damon’s POVThe first sign that something was wrong was the silence that settled over the Packhouse, the kind that felt deliberate rather than natural, as though the building itself was holding its breath. Thorne entered my office without his usual confidence, placing a sealed file on my desk but re
Aria's POVThe waiting was worse than the test itself and I had imagined the bloodline spell would somehow give me answers immediately, that the healers would wave glowing hands over a crystal and tell me whether the child growing inside me belonged to Damon or Kade.Instead, I had spent nearly an h
Aria’s POVI couldn't stop shaking, not because of the blood, not because of Lex and not even because every time I closed my eyes I still saw the knife flashing toward Damon. It was because everyone was looking at me differently. The arena had been cleared hours ago, but the memory lingered and the
The bond exploded to life and I felt a violent surge of heat rush through my chest so suddenly my knees nearly buckled. Power raced through every nerve in my body, connecting us with terrifying intensity.Damon felt it too.I saw the exact moment it happened.The exhaustion vanished from his face, t
Aria’s POVThe first thing I noticed when I woke up was that Damon was gone. For a moment, I stayed curled beneath the blankets, staring at the empty space beside me as the haze of sleep slowly lifted. His scent still lingered on the pillow… pine and spice, familiar and comforting then reality hit.
Aria’s POVThe corridor outside the eastern training hall smelled faintly of iron and polished stone, the kind of sterile scent that always clung to places where warriors passed through too often. I had just stepped out with a stack of sealed archive reports in my arms when I felt the shift in air p







