Aria
“And look who it is, it’s the supposed Queen of the kingdom.” A snarky voice said behind me. I looked back to see Aurora coming behind me. She was with her minions and they were all glaring really hard at me.
I’ve really tried to avoid her, I’ve even been avoiding her since I got here yesterday. I just really knew that since she’s still here, she’d want to cause troubles for me.
“I see that your dressing sense has upgraded with your new status now.” She said, looking at me from my head to my toe. I was forced to dress this way by my personal maid, she has been the only friendly person around here since.
I’ve not set my eyes on Lysander since yesterday, he left the palace after that little confrontation. I honestly don’t think I want to face him him too for now. I just really want to be left alone till he does something about this forced bond between us.
At the thought of the bond being annulled, that spot in my neck suddenly tingled painfully.
“What do you want, Aurora?” I asked her, sounding exasperated.
She let out a very loud gasp, using her hand to cover her mouth with how shocked she was.
“Did you both hear that? She just called me by my name! What the f*ck is that?!” She was so shocked and angry at the same time. She sounded as though I just committed the biggest crime ever.
“What even gave you the effrontery to call me by my name? Oh, you think you’re now very big because you’ve been marked by my own man?” She asked, moving very close to me.
Almost immediately, my guard came to stand before me. I also woke up to see that the guard Lysander was talking about had started work immediately.
“Leave her, I’m fine.” I told him, stepping out from behind him.
Aurora glared really hard at me, but I was even more mad at the moment. How dare she call Lysander here? I don’t know if I’m going crazy, but I’m reall mad because of that.
“Who do you think you are, Aurora? You’re not above me, and as long as I bare this mark, you’ll forever be beneath me.” I said with so much authority and anger rolling of me.
She lifted up her hands in a bid to strike my face, and I really anticipated that, because I was more than ready to give it back to her if she really did hit me.
But just as she was about to do that, she suddenly threw herself on me and started crying.
“I didn’t even do anything to you, Aria, why did you have to hit me that way?” She started wailing, making me so shocked.
Then I felt it, a very warm feeling coursed through my body then the tingles came again. I didn’t even have to look back to see him, I knew he was there, and he has been there since. I didn’t just notice or feel him because my mind was too preoccupied.
“Lysander, look. Aria has been taking so rudely at me, she even hit me right before you came in.” Aurora cried, finally moving away from me.
I was too stunned to move or say anything. She sounds and looks so real, I didn’t know anyone can be so fake and still look so real.
I felt Lysander move forward, getting really close to me. My mouth suddenly went dry and my palms got sweaty, his presence made me really nervous.
“Aria, come with me.” His thick voice came next, i turned around to see him looking right into my eyes. His dark eyes on mine made my heart skip a beat.
His eyes left my eyes and looked at me from my head to my toes, his eyes stayed longer on my body and I suddenly felt really small. I cleared my throat in a bid to make him stop looking at me like I’m a meal.
“Lysander, won’t you at least say something? She abused me!” Aurora yelled, breaking the staredown between Lydander and I.
“Let’s go.” Lysander said with a rough edge in his tone, the next thing he did was to grab my hands, taking my hands in his. My entire body was covered in tingles. My mind was so fuzzy that I didn’t have anything else in it, it was just blank.
It was when Lysander got us into a room that I came back to reality. My eyes widener when be backed me into a wall, his eyes were pitch black and his pupils fully dilated.
“What are you doing to me, Aria?” His voice was so rough and hard, it sounded nothing like the normal Lysander at all, this one is way worse and more animalistic.
“Lys-” The words were cut off when he suddenly latched his tongue onto my neck, on the same spot he marked. My legs were so weak that I’d have fallen down if he didn’t wrap his arms around my waist to stabilize me.
His wet tongue lapped at the mark, my head went into overdrive that I didn’t even have any knowledge of my surroundings at all.
“You smell so good, too good.” His rough voice said once more. That definitely wasn’t Lysander. Is there someone else living in him? This is really confusing.
“I’ve been dying to meet you too, you look so good.” He said again, his voice had gotten even darker now.
That definitely isn’t Lysander, I’m so confused at the point. Even though his touch on me made tingles sprout out on my body, I had to come back to reality. I moved back a bit, looking into his eyes.
My heart missed a bit as soon as I did that, his eyes were glowing! Like it was really glowing that I had to look away with how bright it was. I had to move back away from him fully, fear gripping my entire form.
“Who are you?” I asked fearfully.
“I’m Nox. It’s nice to finally meet you, love.”