Chapter 48: A Gift
(Dominic's POV)
Aria sat cross-legged on the silk-covered chaise in my private den, her silver-white hair cascading over her shoulder as she wrote something in her leather-bound journal.
The moonlight streaming through the floor-to-ceiling windows behind her lit up the subtle lavender undertones in her hair.
For a moment, I simply watched her, the calm elegance ingrained in her every movement stirring something primal in my wolf.
It had taken Beta Cole weeks to retrieve what I now held in my hand. A gift—a powerful one—one I hadn’t entirely planned on giving her, yet here I was. Something about Aria had always drawn the unexpected out of me.
Perhaps it was her ability to remain poised and unreadable even under relentless speculation. Or maybe it was the way s
