Sold To The Demon Alpha – Chapter 28

Roma’s POV:

The hours that I sat alone in that hallway, after sending Raphael away felt like a lifetime as I watched the door that Scian had entered and waited for news.

Sleep was far from me and agony was my companion as I imagined what would happen if Scian came out of that room and could not save her.

d be my fault.

monster. I destroyed

d of hiding away in a room like I always did whenever I felt like I was out of control.

r body from where the ferals has slashed her.

her.

She must have thought she was going to die. She must have felt so scared and alone.

innocent smile she had given, her eyes filled with childlike wonder as she looke

t her go. Not yet at least. I had her father’s debt still keeping her here and until she was done pa

d marry a human who could give her a good life rather than a werewolf who had a demon living inside him who could snap her neck or rip her heart out with one single attack. A demon possessed man who would kill her if he dared to mark her as his.

a Ajello?

Was that what

ngs for her?

they still saw that I was covered in blood but bowing before they left.

s where I had risen to my f

nodded.

n my infirmary and scaring my staff?”

the truth since Scian already knew who Aria was to me, I sighed.

could not leave without knowing how she was doing. How is she?”

.

because she was in the rain. So one of the healers will clean her with a wet cloth from time to time until her fever breaks. But she lives, Roma. She’s alive.”

t I was holding my breath until I released it and Scian’s smile was filled with sym

that you do not want that.”

ded.

r?”

ooking like that, you

t awake, right? I’ll just see

ere, I am in charge and I will not have you going to see my patient looking like that. Change and

of me and I had barely recovered from the last one but I knew that it wou

e infirmary, Scian was waiting with some tablets and a glass of water and her eyebrows raised as if daring me to not take them and see if she would not throw me out of the inf

ed of everything, I would have laughed.

inally entered the room where Aria was sleeping, her chest rising and falling, the only indication that she truly lived.

r stomach. On her right leg.

nd yet

as Scian dropped the bowl of water and towel she had brought in on the table, I fisted my hands

he wouldn’t have been hurt like this if she hadn’t met

r.”

put her in harm’s way.”

face her and shook her head.

you’re just goi

erly.

ven be alive to say anything if I did.”

rself before you could hurt her.”

I shrugged

ight just be luck. The Beast kille

something to it. Now, I would like to lower her temp

t from her hand gently.

s widene

sure?”

Aria and touched her neck softly with the wet cloth, my eyes zeroing in on the freckles that dusted

ing to be near Aria Ajello because she was human to actually liking her. To wanting her around. To missing the way she smiled and h

her. I had to cut her off, if I wanted her to live.

nly mean her death.