로그인~Axel’s POV~“I am sorry, Axel, but there is nothing I can do about it. As long as an Edgewood signature was made, it is done.”The words King Roland had just spoken made the irritation that had been prickling at me since my father’s message flare hotter, sharper. Especially for the fact that he had pulled my own move, slamming the mental door between us after dropping that bomb.After those utterly aggravating words.How. Dare. He?“I see you might have that in common with my daughter.”King Roland’s voice broke through the anger, and my eyes snapped to him. He was leaning back in his chair, a smile playing on his face despite the documents spread across his desk between us.“The inability to control your aura when you are angry.” His smile widened slightly. “You are suffocating me, son.”The last word rang out in my head.Being called that from anyone else would have made me bristle even from my own father, who had never once in his life called me that.But I had known King Roland
~Amber’s POV~The kitchen went dead silent.Not the kind of silence from before, cautious, uncertain, waiting.This was the kind of silence that came after a bomb went off and mouth opened then closed then opened again but no word came out.And for a second, I actually thought I had misheard her.Because there was no way—absolutely NO way—an Omega just called what I said bullshit.To my face.In front of everyone."What did you just say to me?" My voice came out low and dangerous with Roxanne growl laced in the world having lost all form of clearly misplaced likeness that she had deemed Jameson deserving of. But she didn't flinch. Instead she turned back to her cutting board I hadn’t even noticed before, picked up the knife, and resumed chopping vegetables like she hadn't just committed what could technically be considered treason."I said," she repeated, her tone still that infuriating monotone, "that you just spent four minutes talking and it was all bullshit."Thud. Thud. Thu
~Amber’s POV~Sugar.Spice.And everything nice.Those were the chosen ingredients put together to make this…I paused and stared at it again, tilted my head because maybe it was just the angle I was looking at it from then tilted my head to the other side.But it was the same from every single angle.The cake—if it could even be called that—sat lopsided on the counter, one side caved in like someone had punched it, the other side puffed up and cracked down the middle like dried earth. The frosting I had on the attempted had melted into a sad, grayish puddle that was slowly oozing toward the edge of the pan.It looked like something that had died.Badly.“Do you think we should offer help?” A whispered voice came from the side of the kitchen, immediately followed by a sharper, scolding tone.“We are not supposed to speak to her unless she speaks to us first or allows it.”“But that looks absolutely awful.” The first person snapped back.A round of gasps rippled through the space.An
~Axel’s POV~“What could you possibly be smiling about? A few more minutes and you would have been playing chess in the afterlife with your ancestors.”I looked away from what I had been staring at, my eyes cutting to Zane standing in the doorway.One of my brows raised. “Is this your way of fishing for a thank you? You will have to wait another year like you did the last time I needed you to save my life.”Zane raised his phone, and I frowned. The frown deepened when he played something back, my own voice from right now. “I needed you to save my life.”Then he grinned, that shit-eating expression I had seen a thousand times since we were children. “No, no. I don’t need a thank you. This is more than enough to last me a lifetime.” His grin faded slightly, concern bleeding through. “Shouldn’t you still be resting?”I glared at him, ignoring his last words and my ribs ached with the effort of sitting upright too fast. “What do you want, Zane?”The smile fell from his face entirely, and
~Amber’s POV~Seventeen times.I had no idea why I had kept count, but that was the number of times my father had gotten angry enough at me to deliver a proper scolding.People mostly remember their first of everything, so it was easy to recall the disappointed look in his eyes that first time.“You are a Princess, Amber. It is not proper for you to roll in the mud, no matter how fun it might have been. People expect more from you. I expect more from you, and I always will. Do you understand me?”My little voice had come out small, my head bowed. “Yes, Dad. I’m so sorryWhat followed was him losing the disappointment, pulling me toward him in a hug that smelled like safety.“Don’t ever do it again, okay?”Some of the times after that ended with that same pacifying tone, his anger melting into forgiveness. Others like the seventeenth time that had just happened, he stayed angry, leaving me feeling horrible for days.But as I stood here now, staring at him sitting across from me on the
~Amber’s POV~Shit. Shit. Shit.Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.That was a lot of cursing going through my head but it was all my brain could work up as I tried to turn Axel Edgewood over.Axel Edgewood who had just slumped to the ground with the growing chaos sounding outside that sounded like it was getting louder by the moment.‘Please goddess I know I wanted to kill him but let him not be dead.’I turned him using my werewolf strength which was so necessary with how big he was and my hand went to his neck to check his pulse.His chest was rising and falling, shallow, but there. He was still breathing.Thank goddess. My head snapped to Timothy who was covered in blood that I hoped was not his own and his eyes dimmed of the usual light I had always known him for, but that didn’t stop me from snapping.“We are in this mess because of you, Tim. Stop standing there and find a way to use your magic to heal him or something, he was shot with a silver bullet.”That seemed to snap him out of it and he
~Axel’s POV~Rest assured, everything will be fine.Those were the exact words King Roland would say, and my expectations were met exactly five seconds after the threat had literally hung in the air.“Rest assured, everything is under control.”Not my exact words, but close enough to the lie I expe
~Amber’s POV~Death has never really been something I thought about.Unconsciously, it was always something that existed in the background accompanied by a picture of me with graying hair and a smile on my face, happy to be taking my last breath.Unfortunately, from the looks of it or rather, the
~Amber’s POV~Damn that man.Damn him to hell, have him dragged back, and then damn him again.There has never been a point in my life when I had been this angry.No. Angry was understating it.I was absolutely livid.Because that… that asshole had stood there after his ex-lover or still present l
~Amber’s POV~“NO!”The word came out with so much force I realized it had left my lips before I could think it through. But it worked for two reasons.One. No, because it had to be in my head. There was no way in hell Ian could recognize me.Amber was so distinct from the Omega version of me I ha







