Sold To The Demon Alpha
Chapter 79

Aria’s POV

“Wake up, Roma!” I screamed as hands tightened around my neck.

“Wake up, Roma. Please” I shouted again even though this time my vision blurred.

“WAKE UP!”

“Can you hear me Aria?” A voice pulled me out of the trance I was in and I jolted awake, realizing that I had dozed off while helping Sophia fold clothes.

Looking around, my hand absentmindedly went to my neck as I remembered how Roma had looked horrified at having to wake up by my side after being roused from a nightmare that had left him looking like he had seen a ghost.

I wondered what he was dreaming about.

Was it about his mate?

Was it about how he became a Demon Alpha?

There were so many things that could be responsible for his night terror and I realized that I knew absolutely nothing about any of them. It made my heart hurt that yet again, I was faced with a brick wall.

I knew that he thought that I was crazy for not being scared that he had nearly choked all of the oxygen out of me but it had not been intentional.

We both knew that he would have never done it if he was conscious. So the fact that he didn’t believe that I would be able to understand that and the wall that he had suddenly put up after the wonderful night that we had hurt.

But I understood. Because if I had woken up and seen that I tried to kill him, no amount of explanation would be enough to make me not feel guilty.

Rubbing gently at my neck, I turned around to look at Sophia and saw a look of concern and puzzlement on her face.

“Is that a hickey on your shoulder, sweetheart?” She asked and my eyes widened as I looked at her in shock and readjusted my shirt.

“What do you mean, a hickey?” I said even though I vaguely remembered how Roma had kissed me everywhere, particularly my throat, my neck and shoulders.

I didn’t even know how I had not been frightened when his fangs had grazed my skin countless.

Crazy. Sophia would tell me that I was out of mind if she heard the kind of thoughts that I was having now.

She would probably applaud me being the crazy one out of the two of us for losing my virginity.

Bringing out her phone, she pulled me closer, snapped the hickey when I was about to protest and showed it to me, her lips curving up in a smirk.

“Oh my God, you little vixen, you’ve done a lot of bad stuff, haven’t you?” She squealed as we finished off the last batch of clothes and as we headed out of the laundry room into the hallway, I fought the urge to smile and failed, breaking out into a full grin.

“Do you want to talk about it?” She asked and when I nodded, her smile widened and she linked her hand through my arm.

Our journey to her bedroom came to a halt because Raphael stopped us on the way, calling out my name.

Turning around, I swallowed nervously as he approached us, wondering what he was about to tell me now.

Did Roma want to see me? Had something serious come up?

Was he ready to speak to me now?

Why did I have a bad feeling like he was going to put up walls between us the next time I saw him?

Sophia smiled almost immediately Raphael reached where we were standing and I grinned, her usual enthusiasm at seeing Raphael momentarily took my mind away from my agitation.

“Hello, Beta” Sophia said, packing on the flirting and Raphael grinned, his tongue sliding over his fangs in a way that even I could appreciate because he was incredibly handsome.

“Hello, Sophia.” He said right back and I looked between the two of them, wondering what I had missed between the two of them.

Was something going on between them that I didn’t know about?

Before I could think about it further, Raphael looked at me.

“Roma would like to see you. In his study.” He said, confirming what I already suspected.

When I nodded, he looked at Sophia and smirked.

“You are coming with me. I have an announcement to make and I’ll need your help to gather everyone in the mansion.”

There was that spark between the two of them again that I didn’t understand but I waved at my friend who blew me a k**s and a wink, before walking away beside Raphael.

I swallowed nervously as I stood in front of Roma’s office, dreading whatever he was going to say as I knocked once and entered.

Sitting behind his desk, his pose meant to intimidate even though I was sure that he didn’t know he was doing it, he looked like the perfect Alpha male.

Not a black strand out of place, he looked every bit frightening and attractive and as both our eyes moved to the table, I fought the urge to squeeze my legs as I remembered how he had spread me out on that wood and eaten me like a man that was starving.

When our eyes met again, his lips tilted up in a smirk as if he knew what I was thinking about and he rose and walks around the table to close the distance between us.

I didn’t expect him to pull me close and k**s me like he hadn’t seen me in over a year but I didn’t pull away either, relieved that he was not pushing me away.

I m****d into the k**s when he picked me up and placed me on the desk, wrapping my legs around him as he got rid of any space between us.

I loved him.

I didn’t think it was possible to feel this way until I met Roma Ruggiero.

And I feared that it might be my undoing.

Resting his forehead against mine, his hands moved up to touch my neck gently and I grabbed his hand and pulled back to look at him.

“I’m fine.”

“I’m sorry”

“As long as this is not a goodbye k**s where you wax poetic about how you have to let me go because of what happened this morning them I’m good. Apology accepted.” I interjected before he could continue.

He raised his eyebrows and nodded.

“Alright then. Then you’re going to like what is about to happen next.” He said and it was my turn to be confused because what was he talking about?

“As from today, Aria, you’re no longer a maid. You are no longer working as a maid in this mansion.”

I raised my brows, even more confused.

“Have I completed my father’s debts? Are you sending me back home?”

I could literally feel myself begin to panic but his smile made me feel like I was not getting the point.

“I mean that as from today, in this pack, you are no longer going to be identified as a maid. You’re going to be identified as my woman, Aria.”

My eyes widened and my mouth fell open in shock.