Chase’s POV
I tried to imagine Arya making her way to my study. Is she as remorseful as she claims? Well I have to see about that. While I stood in front of my window as I watched the rain beat down my window, I was lost in my thoughts. Her letters and the pictures I was shown when I came back were like two parallel lines that wouldn’t meet no matter, how you try.
The little feet and the slow breath and the sweet strawberry perfume told me she was in already in my room.
“Lock the door behind you” I said without sparing her a glance. She did just that and came to stand behind me.
We stood there in silence. No one uttering a word. I enjoyed that moment. Just before voices went high on octaves. And when I said high, I meant mine because I was going to be the one doing the screaming and not her.
“Chase I -”
“It’s your highness” I retorted sharply. I turned immediately or see the shock on her face. “Did you not call me a beast?”
Her face fell like a pack of cards. I struggled to hide the smirk that was appearing on my face.
“What do you want?” I asked and turned back to the window. Arya sighed. I had expected her to say something but she went quiet. That caused me to turn around.
“You said you were sorry but now you are I front of me, you can’t seem to talk” I said. She raised her head. Her eyes bore pain and sadness. Just like the way they were when we first met. Watching her there, made it obvious. I he\d really missed her.
Arya still had not said a word. I was slowly losing my patience.
“I am still waiting “I said.
She opened her mouth and closed it, I was about to turn around in anger.
“I am really sorry for what I had said to you the other day” she said looking at her hands.
“Really?” I asked. She nodded.
She should be.
“Did you not read my letters?” she asked as her eyes flashed to my table where I had staked the 17 letters she had written. I sighed and turned back, facing the windows.
“The letters are not enough?”
“What?”
“You heard me.” I said slowly turning, “you can’t fix everything with just a sorry” I said.
“What can I do to make it up to you?” Arya asked. I stared at her. The pictures I had seen of her all happy and cozy with Jake ran through my mind and I was filled with pain and bitterness. She had called me a beast but there she was dinning wait a snake.
I shook my head. “Isn’t that a bit too late”
She opened her mouth in surprise. I had expected her to say something but nothing came out of her mouth. I stared at her and all I could see was her yelling at me while at her house. To think I have been hurt before by my parent’s death and other stuff like being called a beast, to think I had grown a tough skin against pain, only to be hurt Arya’s words. Her words deeper than a knife. It’s going to take more than a million sorries to rectify.
I loved her way too much, maybe that’s why her words hurt so much.
I resumed watching the rain cascade down the windowpane. She should leave. All she does is cause me pain and more pain. With her words. I couldn’t tell what was going on in my head. Anger. Pain. Jealousy. I had never seen Arya that close to me like the way she was with Jake. Anger erupted in my head and I swiftly turned to her. “What have you been doing since I left?” I asked.
She was about to leave but stopped. “Huh?”
I stared at her with deadpanned eyes and that redden her cheeks.
“Oh” she said. “Nothing actually your highness” she said the last part in a small voice. Yeah she should get used to the beastly part of me.
“Going to the movies didn’t seem like nothing to me” I replied sharply. How dare she try to downplay what had happened?
“Have you been watching me?”
I stared at her like she was stupid. I made sure to let that sink in. “you are in my pack. I am the alpha. I should be well-informed going on in my pack, no matter where I go, and you are not the exception” I snapped at her.
“Oh” she said.
I wanted not to talk about it but I had to. In a carefully controlled voice I walked up to her. “why are you spending that much time with Jake?”
Arya frowned. “Excuse me, since you are the alpha, doesn’t make you the lord over me” she glared at me.
“Oh really?”
“Yes really” she said in clenched teeth.
I nodded. “That’s good”
“And I’m telling you for the last time, stop meddling in my business with Jake.” She barked. ‘He is a way better man than you will ever be!”
I stared at her and the anger in me burst through my mouth.
“Are you going back to him?”
“Yes!” my eyes widened
“Yes I have gone back to Jake” Arya screamed at the top of her lungs. “And there will be nothing you can do about it. I love him”
My heart shattered in that moment. I glared at her. “Aren’t those in your writing? I pointed to the letter. “Didn’t you say you will distance yourself from Jake?”
She crossed my arms. “Yes I did”
“So what happened?” I barked.
Arya didn’t say a word as she looked away. There she goes again with her silence.
“Fine! You can go with him. Date him even!”
“I am rally in love with him!” she snapped. “what can you do about that?” huh?”
I stared at her. Disgust filled me up and it threatened to eject my dinner.
“Get out!” I spat.
Arya stomped out of my study and slammed the door behind her.