Beyond Revenge

"Alaric," Aria said with a firm calmness, "once I decided, I never thought about changing it."

That was not the answer Alaric had expected.

He had asked her twice before, and both times she rejected him without hesitation.

When she said yes this time, he assumed she had spoken too quickly, that she would eventually regret it once her emotions cooled.

But now she stood here telling him she had neve