The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter novel Chapter 177

Chapter 177: SACRIFICE

Aria hugged herself at the corner of her room, she blanched as she recalled the fact that Emma had died because of the strange illness that she suffered.

"No... that’s not me. It was not because of me..." She kept repeating the same thing over and over again, as she hugged herself. Her whole body was trembling violently. She couldn’t think straight.

Aria had to use a lot of effort to rein in her guilty feelings, so no one would be suspicious of her, because they must know that the death of a child that she wasn’t even fond of wouldn’t be able to affect her like this.

When Dalia entered the room after she heard what happened in the orphanage, Aria raised her head and immediately rushed toward her. She couldn’t stop shaking, her fear turned into anger.

"What ACTUALLY HAPPENED! HE SAID NOTHING ABOUT THE CHILDREN DYING!" Aria roared and this made Dalia hastily try to calm her down.

"Lower your voice, Mistress, lower your voice, we can’t let anyone know about this!" She said in panic, as she kept staring at the door, afraid that it would burst open all of a sudden and they would find out what they had done. "Calm down first."

Dalia held her hand and sat the furious Aria down on the sofa, as she huddled her body again. She hugged herself and her eyes were not focused.

"The child is dead," Aria repeated the words. "The sorcerer said no one will die, those three children are to be sacrificed, but he needs only their souls, but they will not die..."

Out of jealousy, when Cane went to the Moon Dew pack with Iris, Aria and Dalia went to the Riverside pack to meet with a sorcerer. The man claimed that he could sever the mate bond between mates, but said some kind of sacrifice had to be offered.

The sorcerer only said about sacrificing their souls, whatever that meant, not their lives! But one of them died now!

"What if Cane dies...?" Aria couldn’t even bear that idea. If something bad indeed happened to Cane and he ended up losing his life, what would she do? How could she live with the fact that she had killed the only person that mattered to her?!

"Mistress..." Dalia tried to urge her to stop panicking, because if someone saw her like this, she would be implicated as well. The punishment would be severe if they were found colluded with the dark magic users, even the royals would get involved in this matter, since dark magic was banned in this continent.

Heavens knew what would happen to them if the people from the palace got involved in this matter.

"Prepare a horse! Quick! I need to go to the Riverside pack!" Aria sprang to her feet.

"Mistress!" Dalia cried out. "If you go now, they will know there is something wrong and if they become suspicious, it will be the end of you! Please consider!" Dalia was so scared.

"Enough!" Aria roared angrily. "Cane can die at any moment!" This reason alone was enough to silence Dalia, she looked aggrieved. She didn’t want the Alpha to die either.

"But, the sorcerer said that he will be like this, right?"