Chapter 52. Awakening!!!

Aria didn’t walk, she ran.

Long branches lashed at her face, thorns pierced through the soles of her feet as she moved, her body ached, and her breath came in rough ragged gasps. She couldn’t stop, she wouldn’t.

Not when her instincts kept telling her that Lucien was about to die.

She didn’t even remember when she rushed out of the grotto. Her cloak was already torn into shreds, her hair was tangled, but she didn’t stop.

Absolutely nothing could stop her. She couldn’t care less about monsters or terrifying creatures in Whitevale.

The pull from the grotto had completely disappeared; it was now replaced by a more demanding one, primal, intense and desperate.

Aria couldn’t remember how she found him. One moment, she was running wildly through the forest; The next, she rushed into the grove and, for a brief moment, her world shattered.

It was as if her heart knew the way better than she did. By the time she reached him, her entire vision was con