It’s been days, and the longer I stay with Noah, the more of a hold he has on me. Being underneath his influence is like being slowly drained of every ounce of energy in your body. It’s intoxicating and ALL CONSUMING. I fear that if I don’t get away from him my virginity will just be a concept.
Minutes at the mercy of Noah Archer are enough to do any girl in, let along days. When he’s not mending he’s all over me until I reach the point of exhaustion and have to mend just to keep up with him.
His mother brings us food once a day and his little sister Rexa has officially adopted me into their family.
I have to get out of here…I have to go back.
Slowly I wriggle myself out of Noah’s arms and grab my clothes, which have been ready for days now. I sit in a chair beside his bed and watch Noah mend.
Alpha, why did you make him so fucking perfect? It’s not fair…it’s not fair to arm him with everything he needs to disarm me in less than a second…you could have at least given me iron will. My team is going to kill me. Speaking of…
I search around for my phone but I can’t find it anywhere. I decide to use Noah’s phone to call my phone but the moment I dig it out of his pocket he firmly grabs my wrist, startling me. “What the fuck are you doing?” Noah snaps at me. Both the harshness in his voice and the anger in his eyes catch me off guard.
“I-I just wanted to call my phone. I can’t find it.” I explain.
He reaches up and clenches his hand around my neck. “Don’t fucking lie to me Aria.” He glares at me. “Did Thien tell you to spy on me?”
“What?” I sulk. Flabbergasted. He tightens his grip and I quickly realize he isn’t kidding. “Noah you’re hurting me.”
“Aria-”
“You’re hurting me! Let me go!” I shout at him.
Noah searches my eyes for deception and once he realizes I’m telling the truth, he releases me. “I’m sorry, I thought…”
“I know what you thought.”
He unlocks his phone and dials my number. Rexa answers and we both laugh as he convinces her to bring my phone back. Minutes later she sheepishly walks through his bedroom door and hands me my phone. I have over a hundred missed calls. Most of them are from Thien and Willow, but the last few are from my father.
“We have to go back.” I sigh. “I am so dead.”
“I was thinking maybe we could stay here.” He proposes.
“I won’t abandon my team and neither should you.”
“Anything to get back to Thien, right?” He accuses.
“This has nothing to do with him.”
“It doesn’t?” He scoffs, eyeing me skeptically. “You were all but willing to sleep with Thien the night he dry-humped you to three orgasms, but me…you make me wait. Why?”
“You scare me. I’m not myself with you and I don’t trust my judgment when it comes to you.”
“But you trust him.” He points out.
“I’m not about to have this discussion with you.” I turn away from him.
“Fine. Then we’ll sit here until you decide to make the time.”
“Noah we have to go back. My father has called me four times already…he could already be at the house waiting for me to show up. If we don’t go back he’ll come for me and he’ll try to keep us away from each other.”
Noah sinks deep into thought but he doesn’t give in. “I’m sorry, is that your way of saying you’re ready to talk?” He asks.
“What do you want from me Noah?”
“YOUR FUCKING HEART!” He shouts angrily.
“You have it…and then some.” I soften my voice and pull him over to me. “If you didn’t I wouldn’t be second guessing myself with you. I don’t trust myself with you because my heart is too far deep into this…in us to think clearly.”
“You better not be lying to me.” His hand clenches my throat for a second time.
He rests his head against mine and clenches his eyes shut. This time I don’t try to pull his hand away. I lift his thumb to my mouth and suck on it. “I’m not lying to you.” I whisper to him.
Noah catches his breath and softens his expression. Our eyes meet and he kisses me passionately. Both our phones go off and he holds my eye contact as he answers. It’s Qi. I can hear her through the phone.
“Whatever you’re doing, you need to get your ass back here NOW. Thien’s on the warpath. He thinks you’ve done something to Bliss.” Qi informs him. “He’s stripped our entire team of our powers and locked us in one bedroom. Last night he beat the shit out of Harm trying to find out where you are and if you’re not here in five minutes he’s going to beat the shit out of every last one of us until you bring his precious Princess back.”
“I’m on my way.” Noah hung up the phone.
We grabbed our things and then he opened a vortex in his bedroom that took us into the foyer of the house. Holdings hands, we rushed to every room until we found the room where Noah’s team was being held captive.
Relief washed over Thien’s face when he finally sees me standing there, but it’s quickly replaced with anger.
“Where the fuck have you been?” Thien yells at me.
“Watch how you talk to her.” Noah’s tone is cold and calculating.
“Screw you, this is between me and my second in command. Aria, get your ass upstairs! That’s a DIRECT ORDER.” Thien pulls rank.
I obey him and turn to head upstairs when Noah gently pulls me back over to him. “She may be your first in command, but she’s my girlfriend. Whatever you have to say to her you can say to me. I took her away from here…this wasn’t her fault.” Noah stands up to Thien.
“Oh, make no mistake about it. I definitely blame you. How on earth can I explain her being on Kaalen, and killing a slew of demons inside a night club, including the demon Desmond, to her father.”
Shit!
If Thien knows what’s happened, my father does to. It’s only a matter of time before he comes for us. A lightening bolt strikes down in the middle of the room emitting a bright light. It engulfs us all and seconds later we’re in the throne room of the Royal House of Bliss. Noah’s team slowly start to die in my father’s presence until Noah’s father Mal waves his hand in front of them and their powers return to them.
“Aria and Thien, come with me.” My father commands. He glares at Noah whose father takes him in the opposite direction.
Once in my fathers study he begins to pace back and forth. He composes himself to give me the scolding of my life and I brace for impact.
“Please tell me you aren’t sleeping with that boy.” My father says in as calm a voice as he can muster up. “You haven’t given him your Yin have you?”
“I’m still a virgin if that’s what you’re asking, and NO.”
“Thank Alpha.” My father sighs with relief. “Aria…butterfly, I don’t know what he’s said to you or what he’s done to you, but Noah Archer will never be welcomed here, ever again.”
“Why not?” I ask. “I mean yes, he’s a demon now, but he hasn’t always been one. We grew up together and we love each other.”
“Oh sweetheart.” My father laughs hysterically. “Noah Archer doesn’t know how to love. I’d be surprised if he could even spell the word without bursting into flames. Listen to me…He’s not good for you. He ruins everything he touches and you won’t be any different.”
“You’re wrong.” I protest. “He’s in love with me.”
“See! I told you he’s inside her head. There’s no reasoning with her!” Thien shouts, angrily.
My father, one of the most powerful men in the Legion kneels down before me, humbly, and takes my hand into his. “Butterfly, I know you think you’re in love but I cannot allow that love to take shape. A union between the Bliss and the Archers CANNOT happen. You’d be handing them way too much power and they’d use it to get back at us for exiling them. I’m sorry butterfly, but in light of your developing relationship with Noah you leave me no choice but to do what’s best for this family.” My father averts his eyes from me.
“What are you going to do?” I ask, panic gripping my heart.
I watch in slow motion as my father answers my question by rendering me motionless and placing his hand against my heart. His hand emanates a light and an object appears in his hands.
IT’S MY YIN!
I’m frozen in place and I can’t scream audibly, but inside I’m yelling to Alpha himself.
He can’t make me do this! He can’t!
My father motions over to Thien who places his hand over his heart, releasing his Yang. He motions over to my father who takes Thien’s Yang and places it in my heart, while he does the same with my Yin. Powerless, that’s how I feel right now.
Against my will, my fate is sealed. I am forever bound to Thien Youngblood uniting our Royal Houses. There was a point in time where I would’ve given anything to be his, but now…all I can think about is how they’ve forced me to do the one thing I promised Noah I wouldn’t do. I’ve betrayed him.
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