All Chapters of ARIA: The Rise Of The Half Wolf Phoenix : Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

Aria’s povThe next day feels exactly the same.Empty.The hole in my chest is not shrinking. It’s growing, spreading and stretching wider every time I breathe. I keep seeing darkness no matter where I look. Even when I close my eyes, it’s there. I try going back to the beautiful spring on the cliff that keeps appearing in my imagination. I try to imagine Kael standing beside me, his presence solid and grounding like before. I picture the water, the sound, the way the air is always lighter there.But the vision just refuses to be constant.Death is coming for me. I feel it in my bones. It’s not fear anymore but a certainty.At knitting class, I sit with the yarn tangled around my fingers, my gaze fixed on nothing. My mind drifts far away, slipping into that dark place again. I do not even feel it when the needle pierces my finger.I just stare as the Warmth spreads and the red drops hit the fabric.“Evans.”I do not react.“Evans.”Still nothing.“ARIA EVANS!.”I flinch, looking up.

Kael’s povI wake up, looking down at the beautiful face laying on top of me.Aria is warm and soft, her cheek pressed to my chest, her breath slow and steady as she sleeps. Her lips part with every quiet exhale, and every now and then a small sound leaves her, a soft little moan that tugs at something right in my chest. Her hands are twisted in my shirt like she is afraid I might vanish if she lets go. She has not released me once all night.Neither have I.My arm is locked around her back, my palm spread over her spine, holding her there as if the world might try to steal her away if I loosen my grip. I don’t know how she did it. But I and Ghosy were down and so close to breaking, all my sins and nightmare had started playing in front of me like a horror movie. I had felt pain in my head, my skull cracking as the pain flooded in. I was sure that was it. Then Aria appeared.One moment I was drowning in nightmare, and the next I was sitting at the spring, my favorite place in the wh

Kael’s pov“You almost marked her.”I look away from the phone I’m waiting to ring towards Dante, who is sitting as far away from me as possible in the lounge area. I don’t blame him.He almost lost his head in my hands……again.“Sorry,” I say, even though the word feels thin. “Ghost is territorial.”But I know It wasn't just Ghost in that hallway. It was me. I was the one who leaned in. I was the one who wanted to mark her and then remove her towel and sink into her too.And she had been willing.Very willing.Even now, I hear her upstairs. My little human pacing her room. Every sound pulls at me and It takes everything in me not to go up there and finish what I started.“Is it always going to be like this?” Dante asks. Is Ghost going to turn into a raging beast every time she is near? Hell yeah. Am I going to? Probably.“Probably. I guess I will have to learn more about this,” I say instead.Maybe the librarian can help me again. There has never been a human mate. Not in any recor

Kael's povI stand right in the center of my yard cracking my neck and taking a deep breath at the same time, trying to determine the position of each of the vampires in the woods. It didn’t matter that my boundary doesn't extend to the woods around my house, Ghost marked it and they all knew that. The dark forest created by the council occupies most of the spaces on the other side, so there is only a small space where a wolf can run and be free.I close my eyes, opening up my senses. One….two….three….four…..five.Wait…..six. The scent of the last one is one I know too well.Even though they're already retreating, I'm not backing down. I'm looking forward to it actually, Ghost hasn’t had a good hunt in a while.And I didn’t just come out of isolation to let them walk over me.I open my eyes…….lets do this.Let’s fucking kill them all Ghost stirs inside me. Don't be ridiculous, I tell him.I lifted my hand to look at the item I had slip out with, letting the faint silver glow kiss

Kael's pov I escort Aria to the first year building and watch as she enters inside before turning back to Dante and Jaxon. They are both staring at me with questions on their faces. “What?” “Are you sure this is a good idea?” Dante asks. “It’s one thing she is living with us but being seen in public with her? That will just be putting a target on her back.” “Not to say you will put her on our pack's radar and we don’t know who your father’s spies are yet,” Jaxon adds. “She is mine.” “Yeah yeah we know that, we witnessed the bond,” Dante says. “I’m just saying maybe it will be best to hold back with the whole territorial thing in public till we have a plan. A solid plan” I frown and we start walking towards our building. Aria had always had a target at her back but at least this way no one will dare bully her anymore. Even if I don’t have a plan yet, this is the least I could do. I stop walking when I see Adrian come out of his car. I and Ghost watch as he looks arou