Damon POV

The walls of my office felt tighter than they had ever been. I paced from the shelf to the table, from the table to the window, like a caged wolf barely holding his sanity. My mind wasn’t even here, it was running circles around one name.

Aria.

The audacity she had… the boldness… the guts to stand in front of me and reject me. Reject me, her Alpha, her mate. The pride should have angered me enough to forget her entirely, but instead it sat in my chest like a burning coal. Not ...