#Chapter 153: Rekindled

Aria’s POV Silas’s words haunted me long after the phone conversation, and that, combined with my discussion with Cathy and Piper convinced me to at least hear Lucian out. Because of this, when he called me to talk, and asked me to go out on a date with him, I decided to say yes. Now, after dressing in a cute but modest silver dress, I met Alaric outside of one of the more fancy restaurants in the heart of downtown. As soon as he saw me, he did a double take. I wasn’t dressed particularly stylishly, I thought, yet he looked at me like I was a supermodel. I couldn’t help but flaunt it a little, adding a bit more hip to my walk. The way he looked at me made me feel sexy in a way I hadn’t in a long time. “Aria,” he said as I came closer, his voice a bit breathless. It felt as if, since his confession the other night, as his question asking me to stay here and start over with him, that something fundamentally had changed between us. The sparks that had been crackling between us