#Chapter 108: A Face From The Past

Lucian’s POV While I didn’t agree with Sheila that Aria should be totally forgotten, I could acknowledge, at least to myself, that my clinging onto the past wasn’t healthy. So, after installing a lock on Aria’s old bedroom door, I resolved to keep it locked and not visit it again. Every time I had stepped inside, I had forced myself to face the mistakes of my past. It had been a necessary penance, I’d thought, yet, I felt no closer to forgiving myself for the acts I’d committed against Aria, mainly through ignorance or negligence. Aria was lost to me. No amount of penance was going to change that fact. She had moved on with Jasper or someone else. Soon she would move out of the pack. Clinging to the past, no matter how much I missed her and wanted to change things, was foolhardy. I’d only continue to hurt myself. For my own future, for my kingdom’s future, I had to maintain focus, and that meant leaving Aria in the past. As much as I could anyway. Already I felt the weight