로그인~Amber’s POV~All I knew was that I had to move and that was exactly what I was doing, but which specific person my brain was moving toward, it had not caught up to yet.My father, who by some miracle had woken up from his coma only to immediately shift and attack Axel.Or Axel, who had been attacked while holding our three week old son.Damn it.Why was I not with my child every second of the day? If I had been there, Axel would still have been attacked, but my heart would not be doing what it was doing right now because what had happened to Asher was not included in the information I had already started moving past before the healer could finish her sentence.And when had the Palace become this endless that I still had not—The rest of that thought cut off the moment I turned the corner and my eyes landed on them.Axel was on the other side of the hallway, Asher against his chest, his free hand braced against the wall. His skin was knitting itself back together, the wounds closing i
~Axel’s POV~I had no idea what I was doing here.Absolutely no idea. But I couldn’t bring myself to leave and so maybe it was better to just admit it to myself, as much as it wasn’t something I would have ever imagined doing, that I had come here to talk to someone who couldn’t hear a single word I was saying.That was what I had come to do.And since I was still here, I sucked in a breath and went ahead with it.“I don’t know if she has introduced you to him yet.” I turned Asher’s small sleeping body toward King Roland’s equally still one even though unconscious was the more accurate word, though sleeping was kinder. “But this is Asher.”I didn’t know what I was expecting. I felt slightly ridiculous, standing there in his room with my son against my chest talking to a man who couldn’t respond, but the feeling passed quickly because it turned out that once you started, it was not as difficult as it should have been.“I know you wouldn’t be happy with me for what I did. For walking a
~Amber’s POV~This one was a note for the girlies out there, if they ever found themselves in a state of emergency where they needed to sober up. Like in an instant.Just let the man that you pined over for three years because you were in love with him walk in on the man that you now love coming all over your face.No. Please don't do that.Drink a lot of water and maybe some coffee too, because this was not a situation anyone would want to find themselves in. And yet here I was, still frozen, still on my knees, my widened eyes locked on Ian's angry face staring back at me.Wait. Was he angry? When he was the one that walked in here?And he did it without knocking when I had been trying to reach him for days to get him to talk to me?That snapped me out of it."What the hell?" I shot to my feet, my legs wobbling beneath me, and I almost went down, would have face-planted right there in my compromising position but firm hands shot forward, steadying me by the waist. My head snapped
~Axel’s POV~If someone had told me from the first day I met her that I would end up here, right in this moment, with my heart hammering against my ribs and my control hanging by a thread, I would have called them a liar.That she would be the only one who could completely make me lose control in so many ways I didn't even know were possible. That I would be capable of wanting her this much, this desperately, with a hunger that felt like it was consuming me from the inside out. Or that I would want to do things I had never done to anyone, have things I had put personal boundaries on done to me.I blinked, realizing she was still waiting, and her face was getting even more flushed with each second that passed, pink spreading across her cheeks, down her throat, her eyes darting away with sudden insecurity."I'm sorry," she said, her voice small, before I could find my words.She tried to pull her hand away from my trousers, embarrassment rolling off her in waves, but I grabbed her wr
~Amber’s POV~Note to self: Don't breathe near alcohol ever again.Second note to self: If we did survive this and have easier, better, normal times, practice more ambushing Axel Edgewood by making the first move to initiate sex, because his expression was just to die for.That split second of naked hunger before the mask slammed back down, the way his pupils blew wide and his jaw tightened like he was physically restraining himself from devouring me whole."Now is not the time." He said it rough, trying to remove my hand from where it had slid down to the front of his trousers.I knew exactly that. I knew this was the last thing I should be doing or thinking about but I was going to blame it on the alcohol for getting me all emotionally worked up, and then suddenly, desperately horny from his scent wrapping around me.And everything aside, I was tired. Goddess, I was so tired of having to be on a freaking timeline, like I couldn't have sex with the man I loved just because there ha
~Axel’s POV~This felt like a déjà vu of Amber being kidnapped.Except this time it was every resource I had amounting to nothing, and I had never encountered anything like it before, nothing that gave me even the smallest lead to work with.So in the culmination of everything, I truly had nothing.Nothing that could help her.Though this was not only about her anymore. If this was not stopped, whatever was responsible would keep moving from pack to pack until there was nothing left of any of us.In conclusion: not good at all.The worst part was how completely out of my depth I felt about what to do next, which was the reason I was currently standing outside her door, contemplating what I was going to say. I had to reassure her or offer something that made this easier right? Since we were now together.“You do know I have werewolf hearing, right?” Her voice came through the door. “And even if I didn’t, you are not exactly being light on your feet right now.”I let out a breath. Ash
~Axel’s POV~ ‘She put her at the bottom of the ocean! Not metaphorically like I had thought, at the freaking bottom of the ocean.’I was already feeling the effects of having to take another flight back out when I had barely landed an hour ago and Amber Moon’s extremely livid voice through our psy
~Axel’s POV~ Clicking.“Axel, I don’t—”Harder clicking.“It all just happened. I don’t know what—”My fingers ran through the keys of the laptop with even harder intensity, trying to drown out the rest of his words like I had been doing for the past five minutes, but this time my hand went right
~Axel POV~ It was simple.I was bored, I knew sleep wasn’t coming, and the very well-documented asshole part of me that I had never particularly tried to hide had decided to take the wheel.And I might have taken the outrageous expression that had shot across her face after I asked the question a
~Axel’s POV~ I knew she was going to throw it at me.And she was lucky that the cost of the bottle translated directly into the quality of the glass, which meant I knew it wouldn’t break. Otherwise I genuinely would have made her replace it, regardless of the sharp little gasp of shock that she h







