Chapter three

Ariella's POV

“Ah. I see you remembered. Guess with your ability, it was only a matter of time.” A husky voice rang out from behind me and I jumped in fright when I met those intense Violet eyes staring at me through the mirror.

I swiveled to face him, my heart pounding in my chest.

When did he get here? Why didn't I hear him cross the room?

He tilted his head to the side at my reaction, his brow furrowed as emotions I couldn't place appeared in his eyes.

Wait! That's not what I should be worried about. He just mentioned something about remembering.

Ah! How could I forget? He was there. He was in the woods.

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I had blanked out totally, sinking into my grief and negative emotions. It was like I wasn't in my own body as I passively watched Raymond make his way with me.

I couldn't fight back.

No. It was more like my body just wouldn't fight back as my mind had shut down.

I could barely register Raymond's sleazy hand roaming my body and touching me in places…. Fuck.

Just when he was about to remove my underwear from beneath my skirt, a voice appeared in my head. A voice that was so familiar but because it was so damn long since I heard it, sounded unfamiliar too.

My father's voice.

He called out to me and told me to fight. Told me that the daughter of the Dominion wolf should not give up. Not to the likes of Raymond.

After that, it was like my whole body was electrified awake.

It was a feeling I had never felt in my life. It was exhilarating and scary at the same time.

Well the euphoria soon faded when I accidentally killed Raymond.

Yeah. I killed Raymond, an Alpha who had bullied me for years. With just a shove, I had watched his body fly across the space, only stopping when he collided back first with a tree.

I could still see his body bent into an odd shape, blood pouring from all his orfices, his eyes opened wide in disbelief. I guess he couldn't believe how he died.

I also couldn't and so did Raymond's lackeys as they began screaming in terror, the more weak-willed ones puking their guys out after falling to the floor. They all pointed at me and called me a monster.

I stared down at my trembling hands in horror, my heart strumming on overdrive in my veins.

Just then, I heard a twig snap and I immediately looked up only to see that weren't alone.

Right then, I was beyond scared. A part of my brain that was still working registered the severe consequences of what had happened.

Forgetting the fact that I might be dissected because of my sudden uncanny strength, the fact that I had killed a student - bully or not - was enough to get me beheaded by the alliance council, a body made up of different pack elders tasked to keep the balance.

There was no exceptions. Anyone who killed a student at the academy would die. This was one of the reasons Raymond never dared to do anything to drastic to me all these years as he also feared retribution.

Now, Raymond was dead and there were witnesses to prove that I killed him.

I shivered when this man first stepped out of the shadows. His intense Violet eyes, a color that was very unnatural, had pinned me down as my body reacted to him and identified him as my mate.

I was still in a trance like state when I watched him talk to Raymond's lackeys. It was enthralling and scary at the same time because it seemed that any word that came out of his mouth had them nodding in agreement.

He ordered them to carry Raymond's body to someplace I couldn't quite catch but from how it was in the opposite side of the academy, I didn't want to know.

Instead, I was scared of what would happen to me after.

I didn't need to be worried for long as this man had approached me. I stepped back in panic but I only ended up tripping on a branch and landing on my butt.

It was embarrassing but I couldn't be bothered as I tried to scramble away from him.

This man screamed danger and now even the mate bond pulsing between us could make me feel less apprehensive and scared.

I couldn't go far as my back hit a tree.

The man crouched before me and then raised a hand. I flinched but he didn't halt his actions. His hand swept the hair on my cheek to the back of my ear, and despite his eyes being frighteningly cold as he did this, I couldn't help but lean into his touch.

There was something. Something made my body want to get closer to him despite my heart beating rapidly in fear.

“Ariella.” His voice was cold and husky yet mesmerizing.

He started and my eyes widened when I noted that he knew my name.

“No need to be suprised. There's only so much I don't know. All that doesn't matter…” his hand moved to cup my chin and he raised it till I was looking straight into his eyes. “because you'll forget everything.”

With those words, I felt an intense heaviness in my head and it felt like something was trying to burrow in my head. My vision grew blurry and my lid became heavy as I fought to stay awake.

“I'm Ethan by the way.” That was the last thing I heard before I lost consciousness.

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I gasped and curled into myself while staring warily at the man I now recognized to be Ethan - that's if that was even his real name. With trembling hands, I remembered to pick the notepad and pen that fell as I began scribbling furiously on it.

“It was you. You made me forget.”

His eyes glanced over my chicken's scrawl on the paper and he raised a brow. “I did.” Suspecting was one thing but getting his confirmation made my heart drop.

“Why? Who are you? What the hell is going on?” I wrote furiously on the paper, my hand shaking from my nerves.

“Who am I?” He asked after reading my words, looking like he was considering it seriously as his eyes wandered around the room

“Well, on paper, I'm a councilor of the academy.”

I blinked furiously as I stared at him in suprise. To think that he truly was a staff at the academy.

He continued, this time “But to you…” his lips curved into a small almo

st non-existent smirk but his eyes remained cold and blank. “I'm your mate and well, your guide.”