Ariela's P. O. V •The present • •♤•♤•♤• •♧•♧•♧ Before I got to Fallen Crest I always thought that running is the easiest solution and is an act of self- love. I never thought that sometimes cowardice is the greatest enemy of freedom. I thought that I could just run, run as far away from my problems as possible and start on a clean slate. After that visit to Alpha Landon's office I was not the same again. There were countless moments when I was lying in a strange place thinking that I was going to die but I survived. I don't even know how I made it out of the Devil Alpha's office but I woke up in my bed, not completely healed but not in a lot of pain either. I could not stand having to be in the same house with the man who had put me through such barbaric torture, vilified me and

