Sold To The Demon Alpha
Chapter 31

Aria’s POV

He looked every inch like an angry god, his hands in his pockets and hair packed this time with a ribbon.

The only thing that was probably light about him was his beautiful blue eyes, but the rest of him, it exuded the dark energy of someone that was used to telling people what to do.

Handsome in a way that I had never believed a man should be, but not pretty. Pretty was the wrong word to use. His beauty was savage, a wild thing that could not and would never be tamed.

I wondered what mood he was in today. The gentle and caring Roma or the brooding stoic Roma.

“Alpha.” I said as politely as I could and tried to sit up but he shook his head and I remained where I was laying on the bed.

I waited for him to move away from the door but he did not, just stared at me in that intense way of his and when he folded his arms, I decided that I was not going to participate in this silent contest with him tonight.

What was the worst he could do if I broke the silence?

As I thought about it, I quickly retracted the statement when I remembered the man he had killed in the most brutal way.

The fact that the man was evil and deserved to die after murdering a mother and her children for the crime of being werewolves didn’t change the fact that he was capable of such cruelty.

He had never hidden it from me either, but seeing him that way, I didn’t know what to make of it.

But somehow, even though I was afraid of him, it didn’t quell the foolish butterflies in my stomach that seemed to flutter every time he was in the room or everytime he touched my forehead when he thought I was asleep. Or when he looked at me just like he did now, even though his lips were turned down in a frown.

“Raphael came to visit. He told me about Carmen and the twins. I’m so sorry.”

He raised his eyebrows, hi lips tilting up in a smirk.

“Thank you.” His deep velvety voice filled the room and I fought the urge to get carried away by it.

I swallowed nervously,forcing myself to sit up because it felt awkward asking any questions when I was lying down.

“So, I heard that she was killed by a werewolf hunter. By that man that you…” I trailed off, unable to say what he had done without feeling the urge to vomit when I remembered it.

It didn’t help that I had nightmares about it and sometimes I imagined that instead of that man, I was the one in that chair, with Roma ripping my heart out and holding it in his hands with a cruel smile.

“The man that I ripped out his heart from his chest? You can say it, Ajello. Or do you plan on running away again after talking about it?”

I shook my head immediately. Technically, I didn’t even have anywhere to go. It was a terrible idea because even if I did run home, my father would beat me until I was black and blue right before sending me back to Roma to pay off his debts.

And if I didn’t go home and somehow managed to leave town, Roma would go after my father. And now that I had seen first hand what he could do, his promise to kill my father back when he had saved me from him did not seem impossible.

He was more than capable of doing it.

“No, of course not. That was foolish.”

“Which part? Waltzing into the West wing when you knew that you had almost died the last time you entered there without permission? Running away in the middle of the night and not even bothering to think of a plan? Or heading straight into the forbidden forest and serving yourself up as food for the ferals?”

My face turned red in embarrassment and I shrugged.

“All of it? To be fair, it’s all forest! How come there is no sign that says, hey this is the forbidden forest, do not go in? Right?” I replied with a smile and he looked at me like I had gone crazy.

Perhaps it was too early to joke about running away from my father’s creditor, especially one that could probably turn into a werewolf and swallow me for being a brat.

Speaking of werewolf…

“I saw something in the woods. Before I fainted. Not the ferals. An actual wolf. But I’m not even sure. It looked a lot bigger? And scarier? With big red eyes? Kind of like the way your eyes were that day….” I trailed off when I saw that his face had hardened and his gaze had darkened.

Okay, maybe I needed to stop talking now. It didn’t look like it would be a good idea to ask any more questions. The wolf beast creature could not have been him right?

“Well, what I’m saying is that I thought I was going to die when I saw that wolf. But I didn’t. Because you saved me. And brought me back and have treated me. K guess, what I’m trying to say is thank you. Thank you for saving me.”

His face turned cold.

“I didn’t do it for you. Why would I let someone that owed me that much do something as foolish as getting herself killed when she was yet to pay off what her father owed me?”

My eyes widened in shock and his answer felt like a bucket of cold water had been poured on me.

It felt like I had been slapped.

Why did I think that he had come for me because of any other reason?

And why was I expecting him to have smiled and said he could not lose me?

Was it because of the way he had been nice to me these few weeks that I was in the infirmary?

Sophia was right. I was naive. Worse, I was stupid.

“Of course. I forgot that I am nothing but collateral and that you hold my father’s life in your hands. I am sorry for causing you any inconveniences. I promise to be well behaved from now on.” I answered, my voice shallow and quick because I was afraid that I would start crying like a pathetic little girl in front of him.

“When you get better, we will talk about your punishment and the rules again, since you seem to flout them without blinking and have no regard for your life. You are my property until you pay the last cent of what your father owes me and as such I except you to begin to behave responsibly. Is that clear?”

I nodded, my eyes welling up with tears and bit my l*p, afraid that I was going to cry if I spoke.

And then as if he could not bear to look at me anymore, he walked out of the room and slammed the door.

And all the tears that I had been holding trickled down my cheeks. Heartbroken. I was heartbroken and I had no one to blame but myself.