LOGINAria's POV“Isn't he so cute?” Kristina—a lady from the cheerleading team—screamed as Trenton skated expertly and effortlessly towards the goal post, so fast that even the BlueMoon wolves stood no chance against him.“Yes, he is,” Bella agreed, pressing a hand to her chest. “My heart is racing so fast. How can one person be so perfect? I wish he was mine. Goddess… I'd worship the ground he steps on.”Their words shouldn't have gotten to me, but then… they did.I had all his love once, and the chance to make him mine, but I threw it away. If it were before, he wouldn't stop stealing glances at me right from the rink, but now… he barely spared me a glance.I stared down, my chest heaving as pain lodged itself there.“Goal!” Cheers erupted throughout the arena.I snapped my head up to see everyone jubilating, with Trenton skating freely and throwing his fists into the air.“No one does it like Trenton!” The cheerleading team chorused the specially crafted song, waving their pom-poms in t
Aria's POV“I don't think I can do it,” I finally confessed to Tristan after avoiding him for three whole days.After critically thinking about Trenton's absolute disgust for me and the events at the clubhouse, I had come to realize that there was no way I was ever going to get through to him. No way at all. In fact... it seemed like a wider bridge was being built between us each day.Things had become so messy and beyond repair, and if I kept trying so hard to get close to him, he might start sensing my desperation as something else.I already knew Tristan was going to express his utter disappointment in me, and being mentally drained, I knew seeing him wasn't the best thing for me at the moment. He had sent me several messages which I had ignored until he said he was going to come to wherever I was and say whatever he had to say to me in front of everyone if I didn't show up at the locker room within five minutes.The moment I read the message, my chest slammed against my ribs becau
Aria's POVI tried to sleep, but I couldn't. The moment I closed my eyes, Trenton's words and his expression, which was filled with disgust and disdain, would flash through my mind again. I kept rolling from one side of the bed to the other, restless and regretting all the choices I had ever made over and over again... until I couldn't take it anymore.I stood and walked quietly so as not to wake my light-sleeping roommate and another friend—Laila. But I wasn't as close to her as I was to Maya.I made my way toward my reading table and lowered myself onto the chair. I sighed, pressing a hand to my face before opening my laptop.Once I logged into one of the online novel-reading apps where I published my erotica books, notifications began to beep. They were comments from my readers. Over a hundred of them, which I had expected because I hadn't uploaded anything in the past three days since everything started.I began reading them one after the other. Christine_Atelier: When will you u
Aria's POVTrenton pulled me back behind him and his fist connected with Ryker's nose.Ryker tried to lunge at him, but Lucien quickly stepped between them, holding him back. He yanked himself away from Lucien and paced around furiously.“What the heck?” Ryker cursed out angrily, his eyes blazing as he gripped his broken nose, blood spilling through his fingers. “How dare you hit me, Trenton?”The music died instantly and the people on the stage pulled back from one another, staring at the scene with wide eyes. Some were whispering behind cupped lips, while others were already holding up their phones to record the scene.“I will hit you over and over again, you demented bastard!” Trenton growled, pointing a warning finger at him. “You don't touch a girl without her consent. Are you so stupid that you don't know basic manners?”Ryker's jaw tightened. “But she started straddling me first!” he protested. “So, she doesn't mind me touching her, does she, Aria?”I couldn't respond. I just p
Aria's POVOne minute, he looked completely smitten by me, and the next, his eyes had turned so dark that he was barely recognizable.I parted my lips to speak.“Trenton...” My voice was barely audible.But he walked right past me.Like he never knew me.Like he never saw me.Like I was just a stranger, another girl who swooned over him...My chest cracked with pain, tears burning my eyes as I heard him exchanging pleasantries with his teammates.How did we even get here?The way he used to stare at me like I was his entire world, the way he used to try so hard to talk to me, the way he would always tell me to dress better because I was always cold... all of that was gone.I still couldn't believe it.I stood there for a while, not knowing whether I should leave or stay.Eventually, I turned back and walked toward the table.I refused to be pushed aside like I didn't matter.I would chase him to the end of the world if I had to.I don't know whether it was the alcohol or the pain mess
Trenton’s POVI stood by the window of my dorm room, replaying the scene of everything that happened yesterday over and over again... how hard Aria pleaded, how desperate she was to know what had happened between us exactly, and the way she wouldn't accept my rejection.Every feeling she displayed—her sadness, her pain, her anger when I spoke those heart-wrenching words to her... they all tugged at me in ways that I did not expect. In ways I did not understand.When I pushed her away and she stumbled to the floor, Monster growled painfully, and even my chest clenched tightly as though I had made the worst mistake of my entire life, as though I had hurt her when I wasn't supposed to. I had barely held myself back from reaching out and helping her to her feet.Throughout the day, I had tried to justify my actions. I convinced myself that she deserved it for someone who had been planning to kill me. I convinced myself that the rejection was necessary, that the Goddess must have wanted it
Aria“Not today, Tristan,” I muttered once I stepped out of the locker room. “Your brother will not die in my hands again.”Looking around to make sure that the coast was clear, I reached for the poison inside my bra, twisted the lid open, and stared at the dark liquid. The sharp smell of herbs—bur
AriaThe first thing I noticed once I stepped inside the locker room wasn't his fake smile or his scheming eyes that hinted that he thought he had me wrapped around his tiny fingers.No.The first thing I noticed… was the mate bond between us. It was no longer as strong as it used to be.In my prev
Aria.“You… poisoned me…” I whispered, feeling a coil wrapping around me tightly, suffocating me.I slumped on the floor, blood already dripping down my mouth and nose.“Of course.” He laughed coldly, staring down at me like I was something unworthy. “You really believed that I was going to have so
Aria.“Trenton Lockwood!!!”The cheers of the students and the cheerleading squad echoed through Winterridge University’s hockey arena, pom-poms waving in the air.Trenton Lockwood, the golden son of Alpha Liam Lockwood, the future pack leader, my stepbrother, skated through the ice, every stride p







