Sold To The Demon Alpha
Chapter 86

Aria’s POV

Everytime that I closed my eyes, I could see him climbing on top of me. I could see his eyes open with glee that he had me at his mercy. I could see him smirk at me because he knew that help was not coming.

And everytime I tried to fight him off, I could feel him win.

And I always woke up screaming.

“It’s okay, sweetheart. It’s okay. I’ve got you” A feminine voice whispered as she hugged me to herself as I tried to remain calm

As I tried to stop screaming.

As I tried to remember that it had been thwarted. that what was happening was only a nightmare.

“Please make it stop.” I begged Scian as she held me, tears running down my face and even though she tried to reassure me, I knew that it would come back again tonight.

It always would.

There was no way around it.

There felt like there was no escaping it.

It had been over a week since Carlos tried to rape me. Since Roma threw me against a wall in blind rage. And even though I knew he didn’t mean to, I had watched him become something that even I could not recognize.

The monster that he warned me about.

I’d thought that the Beast he changed into was the only creature that I had to fear or be worried about.

But seeing him hurt Carlos and the crazed smile on his face like something had snapped in him made it difficult t believe that he was my Roma.

And that was why even today, he could only stand outside the door to my room in the infirmary and speak to me.

And everytime he did, I sat behind the door and listened.

Everytime he came by without fail.

But the same way he didn’t have the guts to face me, I didn’t have the guts to open the door and let him in.

We were both scared shitless. Perhaps because we both wondered if this was the end of the road for us.

I loved him beyond life, but perhaps he was right. And he would only bring me pain and misfortune. Perhaps he was right about fate repeating itself again. Perhaps fate was to blame.

There was a knock on the door today and when Scott walked in, I couldn’t hide the flinch in my body. I knew Scott was not like Carlos and yet being alone in the room with him triggered a part inside me that horrified me.

The part that Carlos had preyed on and won.

Scott noticed and quickly left the door wide open, standing beside it.

“I’m sorry. Sophia will be here soon” He said with a small smile and I nodded, sure that the apology was written all over my face.

Our conversations since the night where he had let me go had been awkward at best, especially after Roma had announced that I was his woman to the entire pack. And werewolves seemed to take relationships even more seriously than humans did, so Scott had almost been going out of his way to avoid me.

Sophia on the other hand couldn’t visit me without crying everytime because she blamed herself for leaving me alone even when we both knew that she could not have been there while I was waiting for Roma or it would ruin the surprise.

“How are you?” He asked and when I shrugged, he nodded as if that was answer enough.

“I know that this is bad timing but I got into med school. And my flight leaves tonight. I just wanted to see you one last time before I leave. Although I hoped that it would be under much different circumstances.”

A small smile finally made its way to my face. I was genuinely happy for Scott because I knew that he had done everything in his power to go to med school.

“I’m happy for you” I answered and he smiled, still standing there awkwardly.

So I stood and walked up to him, stretching out a hand because I was not sure that a hug would not terrify me.

“Where did you get in to?”

“UCLA” He answered and I nodded. Of course he would want to remain in California, close to the pack.

“That means I’ll see you around then.”

His smile widened and the awkwardness in the room dampened.

I realized that we were going to be okay. Maybe not immediately but we could be friends in the future.

When he left, I turned around and headed to my bed and the door opened again.

I thought it was Sophia so I turned around to warn her not to burst into tears again.

But my mouth remained open, words refusing to leave because it was not Sophia.

Standing in front of me was the only man that had ever made my body and heart sing like a canary.

He closed the door behind him but didn’t take a step further, his eyes filler with pain and it surprised me how it was easy to read him these days when for the better part of our relationship as creditor and debtor, it was almost impossible to tell what he was thinking.

“I’m here because even though I know that I don’t deserve to see you or even k**s the ground you walk on, that even though nothing can right what happened and how I acted, completely ignoring your pain to focus on my own, I can at least do one thing right. I can let you go.”

It felt like there was a knife in my chest and even though I had suspected this was coming, even though I had figured that this was what he would do, it still hit me like a fist to the chest.

And even though every cell in my body was screaming at me to tell him to fight for me, to tell him to wait for me to come around even though I didn’t know when that would be, even though I wanted to tell him that I loved him more than the agony that I was feeling right now, I said nothing.

I decided to also be a coward.

I decided to let things die.

I decided to run away, the same way he was choosing to run away from this.

And the truth was that I could not blame him.

Maybe we were too different.

Maybe something was truly wrong with the two of us.

Maybe it was doomed from the start.

The first tear slipped down my face and I knew he couldn’t help himself because he was in front of me, his hand reaching out to touch my face until he realized what he was doing and stopped halfway.

More tears trickled down my cheeks.

“All the debt your father owes me has already been paid into your account. And your fees too at the music school, should you wish to continue. If you need anything, Raphael and Sophia are always one call away.”

“And you?” I finally whispered.

“I’m always going to be there, Aria. Always. Even when it feels like knives all over my body when you finally replace someone that can treat you right.”

When he cupped my face, I closed my eyes and inhaled.

“I love you, Aria Ajello. And I always will.”

By the time I opened my eyes, he was gone.