Aria's POV
Lately I've been a smiling like a hopeless romantic, like a young teenager out of a romance novel. Alera reassurance about Lucien love and care for me is starting to dawn on me. For all I know now, I believe her now. Maybe he did care about us? Maybe he was just holding back for us.
I want to believe the thought spiraling in my head, I want to believe that for a fact Lucien do want me, the same way I wanted him. The same way I crave him and dreamt he'd be mine. I really want to, no, I desperately want him.
"Aria." I feel a slight nudge on my arm, my instinct falls back to reality. My gaze catches to Chloe, chest rising and falling, while her breathing starting to get impaired with some fleeting microseconds.
"Chloe." I say, adjusting myself to take the her sudden change i
