Chapter 34. Consumed by You (1)

[2019, December 8th]

Bart and Aria ran into each other during the morning sparring session. He gave her a warm smile and she returned it. She looked better than she had in the corridor yesterday. He was happy to see her in such good spirits.

“Are we doing this or what?”

“You and I both know I don’t have a chance against you on my own,” she grinned.

“Excuses,” he said, charging at her, wrapping his arms around her waist and picking her up the way Ethan used to.

“This doesn’t exactly seem like a fight to the death,” she laughed.

“It’s been a minute. I wanted to check in on you,” he said, looking up at her, his eyes softening.

“Do it with your eyes then and stop being so hands on,” Aaron snapped, walking up to them. “You two look like you’re screwing.”

Anger was coming off of Aaron in waves. He’d been going crazy all night wondering what happened last night between Troy and Aria after they left the fountain, dripping wet and laughing like