INICIAR SESIÓNLiam’s POV Aria has been missing. Those four words were enough to make my stomach twist every time I remembered it. I already knew. That was the worst part. While Nathan was probably tearing the entire city apart looking for his wife, I was sitting in my bedroom pretending everything was normal. I couldn’t even remember the last time I had felt this guilty. Aria trusted me. She called me when she was angry, when she was happy, when she needed someone to complain to, and even when she just wanted to talk shit about Nathan. She had no idea that I was keeping things from her, things that could completely change the way she looked at me. And now she was gone. Taken. I dragged a hand down my face and looked across the room at Hailey. She wasn’t there. I frowned. A few seconds later, I heard the bathroom door open, and Hailey quietly stepped out with her phone pressed against her ear. She immediately looked toward me. Then she turned away. That caught my a
Aria’s POV When I opened my eyes again, the first thing I felt was the pain in my head. It was throbbing so badly that I squeezed my eyes shut again, trying to remember what the hell had happened, but the moment I moved my hands, the ropes around my wrists reminded me exactly where I was. I was still here. Still trapped. Still tied up. My breathing immediately became uneven as I looked around, but there was barely anything to see because the room was almost completely dark, the only light coming from somewhere underneath the door, and even that was so faint that it barely helped. I swallowed hard. “Nathan?” Nothing. I tried again, louder. “Nathan!” My voice echoed around the room and disappeared into the darkness. Nobody answered. I pulled against the ropes, my wrists already sore from struggling earlier, but I didn’t care about the pain anymore, I just wanted to get out of here, I wanted someone to hear me, I wanted anyone to know where I was. “Help!” I screamed as lo
Aria’s POV When I opened my eyes, I couldn’t see anything. Nothing. It was so fucking dark that for a few seconds I genuinely couldn’t tell if my eyes were open or closed, and I just lay there staring into the darkness, trying to understand where the hell I was, my head still pounding from whatever had happened in the garden. I tried to move and immediately felt the rough surface underneath me, cold against my skin, and the moment I shifted my hands, I realized my wrists were still tied. My heart started beating faster. “Nathan?” My voice came out small and shaky, and the silence that followed made everything worse. “Nathan?” Nothing. I swallowed hard and tried again, louder this time. “Is anyone there?” Still nothing. I could barely hear myself breathing, and that scared me more than anything because the room felt completely sealed off, like whoever had brought me here had made sure there wasn’t a single sound from the outside that could reach me. I pulled at the ropes
Liam’s POV I knew something was wrong the second Hailey walked through my front door. She didn’t even say hello, she just stood there staring at me with tears already running down her face, her chest rising and falling like she’d been running, and for a few seconds I honestly thought something had happened to her because I’d never seen her look that scared before. “Hailey?” She opened her mouth, but nothing came out. I immediately got up from the couch and walked toward her, “Baby, what happened?” She shook her head, wiping her cheeks with the back of her hand, but more tears immediately replaced the ones she’d wiped away. “Where’s Aria?” The question hit me strangely. “What about Aria?” Hailey looked at me, and the second our eyes met, I knew whatever she was about to say was going to be bad. “She’s been taken.” I stared at her. “What?” “Aria…” Her voice broke, and she covered her mouth as she started crying again. “Someone took Aria.” For a second, I couldn’t move. M
Nathan’s POV I knew something was wrong the moment I walked through the front door and Aria wasn’t there. It wasn’t unusual for her to disappear into the garden when she wanted some fresh air, especially after spending most of the day inside, but normally she would tell someone where she was going, or I’d get some stupid little text from her saying she was bored and needed to escape before she started annoying me on purpose, and when I asked one of the guards where she was, the man looked at me like he’d been waiting for that question. “She went to the garden, sir.” I glanced toward the hallway, then back at him, “How long ago?” “About twenty minutes.” Twenty minutes. Something about the way he said it made my stomach twist, although I couldn’t explain why, so I pulled out my phone and called her. Once. Nothing. I called again. Still nothing. “Where’s her phone?” I asked. The guard hesitated, “I don’t know, sir.” I stared at him. “What the fuck do you mean you don’t kno
Aria’s POV I had no idea how long I had been walking around the garden, I just knew I needed some air because the house had suddenly started feeling too quiet, and after everything that had been happening lately, I had gotten into the habit of checking my phone every few minutes like the next call from the person who claimed to know where Alexa was could come at any second. The evening breeze felt nice against my skin as I walked slowly along the garden path, my hands tucked into the pockets of my hoodie while I looked at the flowers Nathan’s mother had complimented the last time she visited, and for the first time all day, my mind wasn’t completely filled with questions about Alexa, Nathan’s secrets, Sophia, Liam, or every other damn thing that had been making my life feel like some kind of badly written mystery. I smiled to myself when I remembered Nathan earlier, because the man had spent almost ten minutes arguing with me about stealing his hoodie when I had literally told him






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