Chapter 125. There Will Be Vengeance

The walk back to the throne room felt long, longer than it should have been. Silence stretched as snow crunched under their boots, but the silence wasn’t empty, it was full of thought.

Aria walked closer to Lucien, letting the warmth of his side lessen the turmoil in her chest. The events of the morning looped through her mind, from Damien’s savagery to his death and even to the way his eyes screamed rage as he lunged at her.

She had not hesitated when she killed him and she did not regret it.

If she could somehow go back to the morning, she knew she would do it again. Damien had tried to kill a child because he suspected the boy was a thief. She had seen his eyes and there was no remorse in his soul. He had wanted to do it not because he wanted whatever he thought was stolen from him, but because he believed he would.

She knew she had every right to do what she did, she was the Luna of the pack after all. But ever since she had become Luna, she had begun to