Betrothed To The Cursed Prince Of Esterial

Aria pov.

I was still in Bryant arms when I woke up. He was still sleeping but I snuggle myself closer to him. No one was as perfect as Bryant to me. He was so handsome and luckily for me, he was mine. I am never going to let him go. We were both destiny to be together. I didn't care if the whole world knew that or not. All that matters to me was that we have both accepted it and he loves me as much as I love him. Alpha Bryant was my only weakness in this life. And I'm happy that I was his too.

As my hands brush his dark wavy hair, he groan in his sleep. We have been together for so many years now. Me and this big teddy bear of mine both attended the same school. Because of us both of our parents were friends. I was the only daughter of alpha Draven Grayson of the moonlight pack and he was the only child of alpha Ben Wilder. I had an elder brother Axel Grayson. He was a ladies man. Bryant dislike him. But to be honest they both dislike each other. Sometimes i wonder if it was because of me. Bryant and I remain friends for many years even though we both knew that we had feelings for each other. Still, we couldn't admit it because we were not mate. It got to a point that alpha Bryant confessed his feelings me, he was able to convince me that the world was program wrongly for us to not be mate, when he couldn't get me out of his head. He was losing it.

"Why aren't you sleeping?" Bryant said, his voice was rough and seductive. "Please tell me I'm the only one you are thinking about if not I'm going to get jealous and angry." He smiled at me.

I chuckle softly as I smiled up at him. "What if I told you I was thinking about my dad?"

He rolled his eyes as he brought me closer to him. His actions made my heart skips a beat. I was hoping that he didn't hear it but with the way he was smirking at me I knew he did. Ever since he became more mature with his wolf. Bryant became strong. His senses was stronger and of course his charm was more irresistible. It amazes me how he thinks I can ever think of another guy when I was with him. It was just impossible.

"Come on, go back to sleep love. We both know how grumpy you can be if you don't sleep well."

"I thought you said that I was cute whenever I'm grumpy."

"You are also scary." He purposely whisper really fast in a loud voice.

"That's it. You can sleep alone tonight." I pretended like I was going to leave the bed. Only because I wanted him to hold me tighten. I love how important he made me feel.

"I'm sorry love." He kiss my hair.

One little kiss was all it took to make me melt like jelly in his arms. Yeah. I was that easy and simple when it came to Bryant. If I ever told anyone with pride that he was the one who chase after me and beg me to go out with him. No one would ever believe me. Because of how much of a fool I was with him.

"Bryant?" I called out to him.

"Hmmm." He answered, his eyes were close. He was trying to sleep but there was something strange about him today. The expression he had when he meant with me early today was coming back to his face.

Something was bothering him and he didn't want to talk about it. I wouldn't ask him. I would give him enough time for him to tell me. I was patient with him.

"I have been thinking." Perhaps maybe it wasn't a good idea to tell him, but if I don't tell him now, I don't think I would ever be able to.

"About?" He asked, still looking slightly distracted.

"Our future together." That got him to open his eyes. "When are we both going to tell both of our pack about what we are?" I didn't want to rush him but we were both of age. It been such a long time since we started dating, it was only right that we made it really official or maybe more than that.

"What do you mean by that?" Bryant ask. "Everyone already knows that we are dating."

The fact that he wasn't thinking the same thing that I was, hurt me.

"Stop it with that sad look on your face Love. You are making me feel like I have been a bad person who have kept his girlfriend hidden from the world."

"I know that the whole pack knows that we are dating but I want an official announcement on our relationship. One that state that I'm your Luna. And if possible... I want a ceremony." I said it. Atlas I told him my dreams to be married to him and be his completely.

"That. That..." He became quiet in deep thoughts. That same worried look on his face again. "That is not something that can be easily done." Noticing how much his words broke me. He spoke again out loud in a rush. "It's not like I don't want you to be by side, it is just that I don't know what your Dad would say about this. I think your dad doesn't like me."

Him wanting me to be by his side was comforting. It was not the first time he had told me this. But for some weird reason, this time around his words felt empty. But I'm sure it's just me overthinking things. I'm just getting too emotional.

"Remember your Dad wants you to back home, since you have been here for way too long."

"But it only feels like few minutes with you." I hugged him, it been a month now since I have been with him. Told my dad I would be back after a week but that was just a lie. Bryant was right about me going back home. But still a part of my heart feels like he really wants me to go back home instead of staying here with him. "My Dad wouldn't stop you if you want to make an official announcement about us."

"Yes, I know, still I will like to ask for his permission beforehand. Things like that Aria was really not as simple as you think." His voice sounded sad.

But as usual his smile hide away his emotions and block away my senses from thinking that anything was wrong.

Aria pov

I miss him already. What sort of pack meeting was he having that I couldn't come. I wish there was something I could do in the pack when him and the guys wasn't around. They were the only ones I could freely chat with. Because I was alpha Draven daughter. No one except for those that really knew me would be willing to chat with me freely. I was strong but just because I was didn't mean that I look down at the strength of others, I wasn't that kind of wolf.

I stood up from the couch I was laying on and mindlessly walk around the house. The Tv I was watching before was boring. I rather go out for a run and be one with my wolf than to sit down on a couch like a lazy bump. Beta Brian was standing outside talking to one of the men under him. It either an errand or he was assigned to strengthen security around the pack. I watch him through the window while waiting for him to walk into the pack house. I hardly see him around the pack lately. It was either because he was busy or because the only one I could ever truly see was my Bryant. I was completely captivated by him when he was around me.

"Ma" beta Brian greeted me with a little bow as he came into the pack house. A small smile was playing at his lip as I glared at him. There was no reason for him to do that. He knows that, he was not like the others, both of us were not strangers him, Kaiser, alpha Bryant and I were all childhood friends.

"I have told you so many times to stop calling me that." My black high boots made loud noise in the wooden floor of the pack house as I step towards beta Brian with my hands folded. I was putting on one of Bryant sweat shirt. His clothes was not so big to the point that it could swallow me up. It wasn't like Bryant wasn't tall. He was, it was just that I wasn't short and anyway, he was tall but not that tall. He was just few inches taller than me.

"Alright what shall I call you then, little pudding?"

My glare deepen as I remember the horrible nick name that was given to me in grade school. Back then I use to be short and chubby. Really chubby. I wasn't exactly the hotest girl in town when I was young. I look horrible at that time. But Bryant, Brian, and Kaiser, thought I was cute and adorable then. Am happy my looks got better as I grew up.

"Just please call me by name." I genuinely begged him. My past self was a memory I would like to forget. It wasn't easy growing up like that. I was happy that I had friends and that I was the alpha daughter, if not I was going to be bully. The friends I had always reminded me that I wasn't lonely. Especially Bryant, he was always by my side at that time. "Have you seen Bryant?" I asked. Remembering that Bryant had always been by my side make me really want him to be by my side right now.

"Alpha Bryant is with Jenny." A scared look came across his face as he look directly into my eyes while I roses an eyebrow at him. Who was Jenny? this was the first time I was hearing that name.

"I meant to say that he isn't around. He went out of the pack for a special meeting."

Beta Brian was lying. His story of Bryant whereabouts was different from the one that Bryant told me. I'm sure that there was something Brian knows but he doesn't want me to know about it.

"I know alpha Bryant is still in the pack." I said with more authority in my voice. I may not be the alpha daughter of this pack but still beta Brian was beneath me in rank. My wolf was stronger than his.

His mouth was shut. Brian couldn't say a word. This wasn't a good time for him to lie to me right now. If he can't talk right now, that means that his wolf must have swore to alpha Bryant. Beta Brian didn't have any other choices than to be loyal to his alpha.

"It's okay if you can't talk. Take me there." I ordered him, stepping out of the door. Beta Brian was after my heels. Soon he was in front of me leading me to a side of the pack I have never seen before.

It looks like the wolf here were really poor. What would Bryant be doing in a place like this? Was this really his hiding place or am I being decieve by beta Brian.

"I swear if this is all a trick, I'm going to make you pay!" I shouted at him. I didn't want to treat him like this because we were friends. But I felt uneasy about the name he called. My wolf was getting angry about the situation.

Beta Brian didn't say anything. He pointed to a small house that was around other house that looks similar to it. The house was very old. The color of the house looks as gloomy as the others. The place gave me goosebumps. What sort of place was this? Why was it so different from the others.

Stepping closer to the door of the house I could hear Bryant voice, along with an unfamiliar female voice.

"You left me, I know you were with her. I thought you promise me that you would break up with her." She cried.

My hand froze on the doorknob as I stood still, listening to their conversation.

"I know. But you don't understand, my relationship with Aria is special. She's my best friend. I don't know how to tell her the truth right now."

Best friend? Was that all I was to him.

"You can't have the both of us. Each time you are with her I feel it. My wolf feels it, all you are doing is causing us both pain. It is either you reject me or you reject her and accept me, Bryant. I'm your mate not her!" She shouted.

The door broke as my feet kick hard against it. With my werewolf speed I ran straight to Bryant and grab the collars of his shirt in anger. Before the girl who I heard speaking to Bryant could open her mouth. I use my other hand to push her far away, her body hit hard against the wall as she fell unconscious.

I could see the anger in Bryant eyes as his wolf was fighting hard to take over because of her. Because I hurt her. As I watch him trying so hard to control his wolf I realized the hot tears that was pouring down my cheeks.

"Why?" A single word was all I could choke out of me. He betrayed me.

Aria pov

"Aria!" Bryant shouted as he knocked at the door. I continue to ignore him as i lay down on the bed.

I locked myself in Bryant room. It been three days now. And it was now that Bryant was coming to see me. The day was almost over and people at the pack house was trying to sleep but here he was making so much noises. His pleading wasn't going to make me open the door even if the room belongs to him. The man on the other side of the door was not the Bryant i know. The Bryant i know would come and get me Immediately, he wouldn't wait this long to apologize for his mistake.

I guess he must have been with her, that's why he didn't come to me. It was all because of her. How long have he kept her a secret? All this while I was in his arms hoping to have a proper ceremony, for things to be official between us. I must have sounded so much like a fool to him when I suggested that, his wolf must have mock me and rejected me.

"Aria please open up, I'm sorry that I didn't tell you the truth."

That was the only thing he had been apologizing for since he got here. He didn't apologize for cheating on me. He didn't say that he would never see her again. He wasn't sorry that he had found his mate and kept her a secret from me. Atleast now I understood why he wanted me to go back to my pack in the pretences of my Dad wanting me back home. I felt angry and sad.

Bryant curse under his breath and broke down his door. I was with the key, I made sure to collect all the spare keys to his room, so that he wouldn't be able to come in whenever he gets back from the dirty places he was coming from.

As I watch how easy it was for him to break through his room door. I regretted the fact that I didn't lock him outside his house instead. Let him break every door and tear down the whole building if he had to. I would have destroyed his things myself out of rage but a part of me was still desperately hoping that the Bryant I know would come back to me.

"Why didn't you tell me you found your mate." I said not looking at him. I couldn't meet his eyes, I thought I would be okay whenever I met him again but I was not. I could feel tears coming to my eyes once again. Why was he here? Couldn't he at least respected the fact that I didn't want to see him.

"I didn't want to hurt you." He said softly as he approach me with little step.

"If you touch me you are dead." I could see him reaching out to me from the side of my eyes, my threat was empty we both knew that. Still I'm trying really hard not to love him right now. Him wiping away my tears with his hands while he look at me like that wasn't helping. I want to hate him but why can't I? Why was Bryant making things so difficult for me.

"I'm sorry for all of this Aria. I'm sorry." He place my head in his chest and I gave into him. I didn't push him away or punch him hard in the face like I told myself I would if I saw his annoying face again.

"How long have you know her. Just tell me the truth Bryant!" I cried hard in his chest all my defence let down. I didn't want to appear weak, crying in front of him. But my heart wasn't listening to me. It kept breaking.

"It..." His words were heavy. He didn't know how to say it. "It been..." His voice was lace with regret. "I'm sorry it been over a year now."

"What?!" I remove my face from his chest in shock. He had been lying to me for a year.

"At first I ignored the mate bond, I pretended like there was nothing between me and Jenny" there was so much affection in his voice as he called her name. He had never called my name like that before. "I really tried to ignored it. But it was like no matter what I did I always found myself going back to her, worrying about her if she was okay. I couldn't stop myself from thinking so much about her. My wolf likes her and he really wants her. It's not something I can control Aria."

Gazing directly to his eyes "this wasn't what you promise me." We both made a promise after we started dating that we would break our matebond regardless of how painful it was. Bryant said to me that he didn't care if his pack accepted me or not, I was the only one he care for, so he was going to reject his mate. "Remember we both promise that who ever found their mate first would reject he or her."

"Aria it is not that simple." He cast his head down.

"I don't understand why isn't simple. You promise me Bryant, own up to your word."

"Didn't you hear me? I can't control it, my wolf wants her, I can't reject her!"

"Your wolf wants her? or is it that you are the one who wants her." The truth was on his face, I was right.

Laughing and crying at the same time I looked at Bryant as he stares at me. "I can't believe it. I must have been so stupid. How could I have believe you when you said that you would reject your mate for me. How could I have thought that I meant anything to you."

"Aria, you are special to me."

"Don't you dare touch me!" I shouted out loud to him as he tried hugging me again. I don't need him or his pity. "It is either you leave or I leave." I turned my face away from him.

"I will leave." He got up from the bed and walk towards the door but stop. "I will be back tomorrow." With that he left.

I cried harder when he wasn't here to hold me or comfort me with lies of how much he cared for me. My tears couldn't stop as I regretted the fact that I chase him away. Now he was probably going to spend the night with her. At her place.

"I want my Bryant back."