Aria POV
What's more exciting than knowing that my life has changed in less than 24 hours?
To be honest, I'm intrigued. Funny. Feels so unreal I can't even wait to tell my mom or Emma and Aria.
I've been seething silently since Maverick #mymate and Sebastian left #hisbeta, and this fool here, #Gamma or whatever it is, Caleb, has been laughing like my misery is a joke to him.
Not that it's his fault. I can't block him from reading my thoughts, and he can't just ignore them and go look for Instagram reels to watch instead.
I've missed my classes today. I still haven't gotten my phone back, even after I agreed to stay.
That didn't seem to make a difference. I was just told to eat and do nothing.
"Where the hell is my fucking phone!"
I screamed, rising from the chair where I'd forced myself to swallow a few bites of Jollof rice.
Not because it wasn't good, but because I couldn't get my senses to focus on anything except fear.
As if I'd just made the funniest joke in the world, Caleb burst out laughing even louder, like the psychopath he is.
I guess me breaking down is a show he paid to watch.
Four heartbeats passed, and I just stood there glaring at the dickhead, like a devil straight out of my nightmares.
He said nothing. Just kept laughing, barely controlled.
Tired, annoyed, and frustrated, I ran my hands through my braids, which now felt unbearably uncomfortable.
I felt like ripping them off my head and using the strands to strangle the dickhead grinning in front of me.
In my entire life, I have never felt this angry.
Retreating, I walked toward the bed and sat down, making sure not even a glimmer of light crossed my face. I'd just wait until the two reasonable/unreasonable men came back.
Yeah, unreasonable, because how the hell do you kidnap someone and then not even bother kidnapping them properly. This fucking nonsense. Mate and Luna shit.
I let out the loudest, most annoyed hiss of my life.
***
After what felt like forever, the door finally burst open. I jerked up immediately and headed for it, thinking it was the two wise men again.
But to my dismay, it was just another man in a neat suit, same as the other two.
And of course, this dickhead who'd been babysitting me was only in normal clothes, but somehow still managed to look neatly dressed. I hate to admit it.
"What?" Caleb barked at the man in the suit, probably annoyed at the interruption to his comedy show.
Me.
"His Majesty said to make sure she's eaten and doesn't go anywhere. And that you should be ready to be buried for blocking your communication link,"
the man in the suit said.
"Oh fuck!" Caleb cursed.
As I turned to ask the man about what Maverick had said concerning my phone, he shut the door in my face.
Turning to Caleb
"You have got to be kidding me."
But Caleb was like in a trance. His eyes were open, but it was as if he wasn't really in the room, still somehow looking at me angrily, as though I'd done something wrong.
Which is not my business.
These people are kidnappers, and I need to call the police.
Fuck, why haven't I thought of this yet?
I need to call the fucking police and tell them
I've been kidnapped.