Aria pov
"How long have you been here?""An hour and some few minutes."I ignored him and went back to sleep. But with Bryant here, it was hard to sleep, even faking it was hard. He needed to stop doing things like this. Actions like this send me mix signals about his feelings for me.Ever since the day I caught him and his mate I have successfully drove him away from his room that use to be our room, he now sleep in the room next door. We hardly see each other, whenever I got up in the morning I was eager to leave the house, because I didn't want to see him."Aria why have you been ignoring me." He breath out, heavy breath. Calling himself stupid under his breath. He was right about that, he really was stupid. "I meant to say, please stop ignoring me, I missed talking to you. I really don't like it when we fight.""Do you call her love too?""Aria I'm not here to talk about my mate. I'm here to talk about us. I don't want us to drift away from each other because of this. I missed you Aria, please let's stopped fighting."I wanted things to be normal between us too. It was the only reason I was still in the pack even after finding out the truth about Bryant. But there was a difference between both of our normal, his normal involved us just being like friends, like we never went out on dates or had any night together. How can I be around him and forget that he was my first for everything. The same way I was his, how could he forgets and suggest normal with me."Bryant." I called his name without looking at him, my back face him, my eyes was on the other side of the bed. His bed still scented so much like him. Most times I still pretended that he was laying down next to me on the bed. "I don't think things can ever be normal for us ever again. There is no longer just alpha Bryant now, it is alpha Bryant and his new found mate.""That's not true. I'm still me, the Bryant you know." He tried holding the palms of my hands but I pull it away from him."Have you gone around your own pack? Do you have any idea about what people are know saying about me because you found your mate.""What are you talking about? The only ones that knows about Jenny are Kaiser, beta Brian, and I. I didn't tell anyone else."From Bryant voice, he was being honest who would have told some of the pack members the truth about Bryant mate?"If you think I'm lying you can go and ask beta Brian. He was with me when three of your pack members spoke about your true mate.""I never said that you were lying. I believe you, I know you so well I can tell when you are lying remember?"His words brought a little smile to my face, even though I didn't want to smile or laugh at anything he says.I turned towards him, he tried again to hold my hands and I let him. Our hands together was perfect, if only he love me instead of her."Let's be friends again." He smiled softly at me.It impossible, why can't he see that, there was no way I could ever be friends with him. It been years since we quit being just friends. Years we decided to be more than that. I was happy then. There was no way I could ever be satisfied with being just friends with him. If he would no longer ask me for more, I would always want more from him."We can't be best friends anymore.""Why?" His voice was sad about my decision. "I know it would be difficult for you, but I believe that we could still make it work.""We can't Bryant, everything between us is over. It would be best if I move back to my pack but I'm still gathering myself for that. Don't worry I will tell you good bye before I leave.""Don't say this, if you leave without us settling, your Dad and your brother are never going to allow me to ever visit you again."I pulled my hands away from him and wrapped it around his neck, bringing my face close to his, as I eyes his lips. I could feel his breath against my skin as I brought my lips closer to his.Bryant pulled himself away from me when my lips slightly brush against his.I was hurt by his actions, he knew that. I could tell from the way he gave me those sorry looks in his eyes. Before he could open his mouth inorder to try and comfort me with one of his lies, I spoke before him. "This is the reason we can't be friends. Because no matter what I will always try to kiss you, if you were sleeping, or even if you were in front of your mate. And I'm sure that you don't want to hurt her. So it is best you stay away." With that I lay down back to the bed, turning my face away from him. He should really stop. I was trying so hard not to cry right now.I wouldn't let myself be the same way I was that night, crying in front of him, making him feel like he needed to comfort me."Is there really no way for us? I really don't want to hurt you. If you I give you what you want, you would get hurt because of Jenny, I still can't reject her."Bryant was still not man enough to tell me the truth. The only reason he can't kiss me anymore was because there was no longer any reason to keep anything a secret. He didn't want to hurt me? I feel like laughing. More like he didn't want to hurt his precious mate. Have he mark her already? Or he going to wait until after the ceremony before he mark her."Do whatever you want Bryant." I am starting to get tired of all this."Even if you don't want to believe that us remaining friends can work, I still believe."After that I heard the door to the room being shut close. He was gone. For the first time in a while I had him in my hands again, the only difference was that he was no longer mine.Aria povI laughed hard at beta Brian lamed jokes. we were both outside together again, it wasn't like we planned it. It just happened. Although I felt like he was the one using a lot of free time in his schedule to make sure that i was alright. Like he could see that I wanted nothing more than to be away from people but he's not letting that happened because the truth was that I needed someone by my side right now. Someone who was ready to listen and tell me that I was right even though I was wrong. Not like Brian was doing a great job at it, he was too honest for his own good. But still, small things like this made me happy. I still had a friend who was still standing by me even though I clawed his face."With the way you are smiling and no longer glaring at me these days, is it safe for me to say that I have been forgiven?" Brian ask, he was cautious with his words. Like what he did was such a big deal and I had planned to hate him for the rest of my life. I nodded my head as we b
Aria povA soft knock came to the door."come in" I shouted. "There you go." Beta Brian said as he drop off a few clothes and an underwear for me."Thank you." I said as I smiled at him and took the little bag of clothes, I'm sure he must have felt weird while taking all this things from the pack house but he still did it and I was grateful. Looking inside the bag, I frown as I look at the clothes that was inside. I just needed a pair of clothes to stay in Brian house for today, then maybe later in the evening I would go back to the pack house. Still haven't fully decided on what I wanted yet. I really didn't want to see my ex and his mate together again."Is something wrong?" Brian asked. I pulled out the shirt from inside the bag as I frown at it. The shirt was for Bryant, one of his few clothes that I stoled from him. I was sure I threw away all his clothes that was with me, so what the heck was this doing here? And together with that short. Only Bryant knew that I like wearing th
Aria pov"Aria, what sort of question is are you asking? you are my best friend and I care about you. I know that right now you don't like seeing Jenny at the pack house but one day she is going to live here. You know that, it is something that have to happened eventually, there's no point hiding her away, people around the pack have started noticing that she's my mate." I was no longer shock by alpha Bryant hurtful words anymore. It just pissed me off that he makes himself go and comes whenever he wanted to in my life. And when he was in front of me with his stupid apologies, they were nothing more but an insult to my face. He say he cares again and again but he still couldn't fake his emotions for me anymore now that his secret was out in the open."It's okay Bryant." I said with disdain all over my face. "I'm okay with everything that's happening, you don't have to be here, you don't have to explain yourself to me either.""Aria." His gazes hold my eyes to his. The way he called m
Aria povThis was so annoying. Just when I finally decided to out into the city for while, this had to happened."Did you find any mechanic?" I asked, hearing Brian footsteps behind me. After a minute I decided to turn around when he wasn't answering me. I thought it was weird that he wasn't saying anything. Jenny was standing behind me, her eyes going between me and my bike. Turning around, I ignored her like she wasn't there. Maybe if I don't say anything to her, she might take a hint and go away. "You know, I have been meaning to ask but are you going out with Beta Brian?" Her voice sounded so annoying, what made her think she could come in here, at the garage and talk to me. "You would love it if I was, wouldn't you?" Jenny gave out a short chuckle. "It not like I came here to look for trouble, it just that I have been around the pack and most pack members are aware of the fact that Alpha Bryant have found his mate."Of course she was here to cause trouble."You can tell me
Aria povMindlessly I flip through the different channels in the TV. My favorite show wasn't on, Even if it was, I wasn't going to watch it anymore. Usually I watch it with Bryant by my side. If only Brian wasn't busy with his beta duties today, we could be training together right now. "Stop it, we both know Aria, she isn't capable of doing something like that." Maybe it was because I was thinking about Brian I was starting to hear his voice. "What are trying to say that Jenny is lying?" I was also hearing Bryant voice. "Wait a minute." I got up from my relax position on the couch and look at the direction both voices were coming from.Bryant opened the door, immediately his eyes found mine. I have never seen him look at me like that before. He looks completely enraged."Bryant you can't do this. You are going to hurt Aria again if you do this." Brian tries his best in convincing Bryant.Hurt me?"But she hurt Jenny, you are just saying this because she isn't your mate. If only y
Aria povI could hear them all clearly, they weren't even going to pretend as if I wasn't there. none of them cared, I still remember the time they all wanted to be close to me because I was alpha Bryant girlfriend, now with the sudden turn of events they gossip me without caring, there was no escape for me in Dreamstake pack. The pack house was suffocating, the pack itself with the pack members were no difference. I can't stand this place anymore, I don't want to, the person I was fighting for didn't even know that I'm only staying here because I was fighting for him. I know right now that for others, this was the perfect reason for me to just pack my bags and go without caring about Bryant anymore. But I couldn't do that, I felt exactly the opposite of what I was supposed to feel, to me this gave me more reason why I needed to stay. If I didn't, who would save Bryant from his lying mate that wanted to destroy his life.I headed back the pack house, nothing in this pack could take my
Aria povThings didn't get better for me in anyway. Jenny was still at the house, she hadn't left ever since the day she came in. To protect her, Kaiser stayed with her. Alpha Bryant didn't care about my feelings anymore, he was serious when he said that he wanted me out of the house, if he had in any way cared about my feelings he wouldn't have brought Jenny into the pack house. The forest soil was dark brown, almost blackish. I pick up a lonely stone from the ground and throw it away, watching as it flew across me into a little pool of water. I felt no different from the stone, I threw away in boredom, we were both alone, abandoned and throw away when the whole world thought that we weren't needed anymore.Jenny wounds was taking forever to heal, she was a really weak wolf, my guess was that, either because of what was done to her before or she was the one who keeps the wound on her body, as a reason to remind Bryant every blessed day of how much of a threat I was to her and how ev
Aria povWith this place I was going to teach alpha Bryant a lesson. He was going to regret ever making a fool out of me and my feelings for him. I will use my satisfaction for his pains to replace my feelings for him.It was time I had revenge on alpha Bryant, I hate his mate, but I hate him more for allowing every thing his mate did to me. Hurting him was going to be the same thing as hurting her, because they are mate, she was going to feel every single pain alpha Bryant feels after he had fallen for my trap. If I couldn't hurt alpha Bryant emotionally because he felt nothing for me. Then I am going to hurt him the way my father taught me how to hurt a man, good old physical pain. I saw Jenny mate mark. She couldn't wait to flaunt it out to me, to show me that she and alpha Bryant have bounded. Bryant couldn't even wait for a mating ceremony were he could make an official announcement that she was his mate before he mated with her, that bastard went straight ahead without caring a