Sold To The Demon Alpha
Chapter 84

Roma’s POV

“I know that it’s probably too soon to say this, but I think I’m falling in love with you, Aria Ajello.” I whispered and watched as her brown eyes widened in surprise as if she thought it was impossible to love her.

It was impossible to not love someone like Aria Ajello.

And after everything that had just happened between us at my penthouse, I realized that it was nothing but the truth.

I was in love with her. She was the light to my dark and bleak existence. She was the reason why I could look at myself in the mirror and see a man, and not a monster.

My last moments with Selene had wounded me gravely because she had looked at me like I was a monster moments before she took her last breath and I had carried that with me for years, knowing that when women looked at me and said they loved me, it was because they had not seen the monster beneath the man.

The demon behind the handsome face.

I had tried to push Aria away today. I knew that and even though it was stupid, considering that I had sworn to her that we belonged together, as I had watched her sleep, a voice in my head had wanted me to scare her away.

Make her leave me before she decided to do it on her own. Because I didn’t think I deserved her. Because I knew she deserved better than a man who could not even sleep beside her but was too selfish to let her go.

I hadn’t meant to tell her all of my deepest darkest secrets but they had spilled out of me like they were waiting on the tip of my tongue all this while.

And when she had held me close rather than push me away, when she had hugged me tight, knowing that beneath the rage, beneath the guilt lay a sorrow that was so deep, it was heart wrenching, I had cried in her arms.

I had only ever cried in Scian’s arms and it was when I was a teenager. I had never met my mother and neither had Carlos. All we had grown up with was our menace of a father. Carlos hadn’t even grown up here, for the most part and yet he had been impacted by my father’s cruelty, same as I had been.

One day my father had brought him home and announced that he was his other son.

Maybe that was why when he walked towards Aria and I, I took an offensive stance automatically, my subconscious expecting nothing but cruelty and dubiousness. We were indeed cut from the same cloth.

The only difference was that now, I had Aria, the sweetest creature in the world to steady me.

His eyes, a dark obsidian looked between me and Amelia, before he looked at her neck and then at my empty one where the necklace once was and he smirked.

“Going really fast, aren’t you, brother?” I knew he was talking about our family heirloom that I had

Pinning him with an uninterested look, I waited for him to say more.

Aria’s hand tightened around mine and I realized that she was trying her best to not look afraid even though I could smell her fear as clear as day. And I knew from Carlos’ smirk, he could too.

“What do you want, brother?” I asked Carlos and he shrugged.

“I heard that you were back and wanted to speak to you about some issues concerning the pack. But I will return later. You are busy with your new lamb.”

I didn’t realize that I had growled until Aria’s fear increased but it did the job in shutting Carlos up.

Rubbing Aria’s arm, I pinned my brother with a glare.

“If it is urgent, you may speak with Raphael. If not, then we will see later in the day.”

And without waiting for his response, I led Aria away from him and into the mansion.

“He gives me the hives” Aria whispered and I nodded. Her fear had peaked when he showed up.

“Don’t worry, sweetheart. He won’t do anything to you.”

I was going to make sure of that, even if it meant that I was going to break his legs.

Aria’s POV

It had been two weeks since Roma had told me that he was falling in love with me.

And since then, there hadn’t been a right time to say it back to him.

Sophia had told me that it didn’t have to be a special moment but all of the two times that I had wanted to say it, something had interrupted us. And I had taken it as a sign to make it a very special occasion.

That was going to be tonight.

My heart still hammered in my chest everytime I thought about that moment when he had said those words and even though, he hadn’t said it again after that, I knew he did.

He spent more and more time in bed with me and I knew the sacrifice that he was making, staying awake to cuddle me while I slept because I wanted us to share a bed to prove to him that he wouldn’t hurt me.

Last night had been another turning point for us.

It had been a full moon and I had finally witnessed why he had to use all of those chains in his bedroom. I’d cried so hard all night as I watched him shift into the beast, chained to the walls of his bedroom and I had laid beside him on the ground when he had completed his transformation, speaking to the Beast as it watched me with curious eyes, further cementing my belief that for some special reason, it didn’t want to hurt me.

It was all I needed to be certain that whether he turned into a ghost, I would probably still be in love with him.

Everything in my bedroom was set for tonight.

I had, with Sophia’s help decorated my room with scented candles and arranged dinner on the table beside the bed.

And then I had texted Roma to tell him to come when he texted me that he was about to quickly step out with Raphael for a meeting in town and would be back in a hour.

Hoping that dinner was not too cold by the time he came but knowing that I would probably have to use the microwave, Sophia helped me into the scandalous lingerie that she had bought for me and a robe, wriggling her eyebrows before she left the room.

There was a knock on the door minutes after Sophia left and I rushed to the door, opening it.

“Did you forget something?” I said as I opened it and the smile on my face faded when I saw who was behind the door.

It was the one person in the entire pack that gave me the hives. That made me truly worried about the fact that I was a human living with werewolves.

“Well, hello to you too” Carlos said with a sardonic smile and pushed his way inside.