Sold To The Demon Alpha
Chapter 67

Roma’s POV

“You look like you’d rather be swallowing knives than sitting here in the office with me.” Scian said and when I frowned, she raised her eyebrows in question.

“What’s wrong, son?”

“Nothing. Just a nightmare.” I answered and looked towards the window.

Right after I had sent Aria away like the f*****g stupid i***t that I was with no explanations whatsoever, I had hidden in the shower and then headed straight to my study to work because I knew that sleep was going to be far from me.

Especially after I knew that Aria would be hurt by my response after everything that had happened.

But I could not have stayed back right after watching her c*m. Not because I could not bare to see her o****m from just touching herself but because I knew that I was going to be unable to stop myself from taking her.

I knew that all that had stood between me and her last night was my sheer force of will. And I knew that I could never put myself in that position again because it was pure luck that I had been able to restrain myself after watching her loving her body shyly at first and then with reckless abandon as she locked eyes with me.

As if my guilt was not enough, I had fallen asleep in my study and been gripped by a night terror.

Before, all my nightmares were the same. It was the night that I had lost Selene and the child in her belly. I was so young and incapable. So naive and trusting and that had been my undoing. Because as I found her dead body, I knew that it was too late to save either of them. That it was too late to save the both of them.

And that was what forced me awake before last night. Last night was different.

And in that nightmare, I could only watch helplessly as the beast tore her apart. As it ripped her skin to shreds. As it looked into her eyes with no single sign of recognition and as she looked back at him in surprise.

I had woken up covered in sweat and shaking as if the room’s temperature was very low and that was what had brought me to Scian today because she was the only one that knew about my nightmares in depth.

Was my subconscious trying to warn me about Aria? Was I in way over my head and going to hurt her?”

Just being a werewolf, was only going to add the list of many reasons why I knew that staying away from Aria who was and would always be human

“Do you want to tell me about your nightmares, Roma?” She asked gently, her face filled with concern and I wanted to decline again, which I knew would get a raised brow at my stubbornness when her phone rang and when she looked up at me after seeing the phone ring, she answered.

“Hello, Scott. How are you sweetheart?”

Knowing that it didn’t matter if she held the phone to her ear because I would still hear the conversation, she put it on speaker, smirking at my feigned nonchalance.

“I’m fine. So I’m kind of going into town with Aria, do you need me to get anything for you?”

My brows raised because I had seen Scott with her that night at the ball. And I already knew how he felt about her. But did she know?

“I’d send a list.”

“Ask him where he’s going?” I mouthed to Scian who grinned and made me stew for seconds which felt like hours before she asked.

“Where are you guys headed?”

“Uh, we are going to a park and then to the movies. Like a date. I’m excited. Wish me luck” He answered and I could literally feel the smile

Scian’s lips widened in a smile and she nodded even though Aria could not see her.

“Alright darling. I’ll send you the text. Have fun.” She hung up and the entire room was quiet save for the growl that erupted from my chest and when I locked eyes with Scian, she gave me a serious look.

“You don’t get to be angry with anyone but yourself, Roma if you’re not going to claim her and someone else wants to. You understand that, right?”

“He’s a werewolf. It can’t work out.”

“Well, unlike someone, he is willing to try. And that says a lot, doesn’t it? Sometimes, trying might be the key to fantastic results.”

Aria’s POV

“Oh,you’re going.” Sophia said as she dragged me into her room and I rolled my eyes at her, but it was better than sobbing into her chest and confessing all of the things that I was desperate to share with her but was too scared to.

“I’m not going.”

She looked at me like I was out of my mind and when I raised my eyebrows, and sat on her bed beside me.

“Okay, give me one reason why going on this date with Scott is a bad idea when it’s essentially to get to know each other.”

I opened my mouth to tell her the truth. That just the thought of pretending to be happy today when my heart was bleeding out to the floor did not feel doable.

But the fact that my heart was bleeding was no one’s fault but mine.

Roma had never made me any promises. He was a complicated man who had another woman in his heart. A dead woman but a woman all the same. And Scott, even if he didn’t make my heart want to jump out of my mouth when he was in the room, I liked him. I liked his company and he did not make me so confused.

When he had approached me this morning to ask me out on the date, Sophia had been there with me and I had agreed already so backing out now would be rude. Plus Sophia was right, it was just to get to know each other right?

Maybe if I learned more about Scott, it would be all that I needed to realize that being in love with Roma Ruggiero was bad for me.

“I have none.” I answered and she grinned, pulling me into a hug.

“I know it’s because of the Alpha, isn’t it? You’ve not gotten over your crush on him, have you?”

When my eyes widened in surprise, she gave me a knowing smile.

“You’re not exactly subtle, Aria. I saw the way you looked at him at the ball. I see the way you’re always searching for him first whenever we enter a room. And then, there’s that light in your eyes whenever you’re speaking about him. But I also know a thing or two about unrequited love. Especially because of Raphael and you’ll never be satisfied with loving from afar. And it’s going to eat at you when you watch them move on with their lives. So you have to move on first. I’m not ready to take my own advice yet, but I’ll take it soon.” She said the last part with a laugh and I chuckled, pulling her in for a hug.

“You’ll be alright, Aria. We will be.” She whispered and I decided to believe her.