LOGIN~Axel’s POV~The pieces were falling into place, and even without the full picture, I understood enough of what I had already seen to know exactly how it had started but what I still didn’t have was the rest of it, the part that would let me fully understand why the same thing was happening to me now.Or why Aurelia and Amber shared the exact same face. Why they were, as far as I could tell, entirely the same person wearing two different names across two different times from what I could see. I had been so lost inside my own head trying to untangle it that I hadn’t even noticed I was standing alone.Everyone was gone. Kyran included, though he had been right there seconds ago, bowed to along with everyone else in that room. All that remained was a single door, and the longer I stood there, the more certain I became that I had to walk through it. So I did, without hesitating, and the second I crossed the threshold, dread slammed into me with a force I had no chance to brace against.I
~Axel’s POV~“Why are you on the floor, Kyran?”The soft voice followed right on the heels of two necks snapping, and curiosity over who it belonged to, alongside the sheer need to understand when exactly this woman had entered the room pushed me past the pain long enough to turn my head, only to realize the pain itself was already gone. I didn’t feel a single bit of the impact from the hits that had just landed, and when my eyes finally caught who was standing there, everything in me paused completely.Amber?“Did it happen again?” She moved forward, walking right through me, through my body lying on the ground like I was nothing more than air, like I didn’t exist to her at all, and I managed to shake myself out of whatever tangle of feelings seeing her had thrown me into just in time to follow her, watching her kneel down in front of someone else entirely.“Come on.” She said it gently, helping him up, and the second he rose, I saw his face.It froze me all over again. Staring at
~Amber’s POV~Pain came first. All of it, everywhere at once, like my body had waited until this exact moment to send every signal it had been holding back through the crash.I was conscious. That much I could confirm. There was blood in my mouth, warm and metallic, and I coughed it out weakly, tasting more of it settle in behind. I tried to move, tried to push myself up, tried to reach for anything that would get me closer to Asher but my body simply refused, some deep, essential connection between thought and motion severed somewhere in the wreckage. I fought to stay conscious, fought against the dragging pull toward black that kept threatening to take me under, and I couldn’t even tell anymore if I was upside down or if the entire world had simply flipped itself over instead.Through the fight to hold onto consciousness, I felt my body being dragged.I wanted to scream. Nothing came out.Then I was being carried. Or maybe I wasn’t. Everything kept sliding in and out of focus, sou
~Amber’s POV~The wolves lunged at us immediately, and a powerful growl cut through everything before the could reach us, deep, guttural, the kind of sound that vibrated somewhere behind my ribs instead of just my ears.For a second, my whole body forgot how to move.Axel.The thought slammed into me before I could stop it, before logic had any chance to catch up, some starved, desperate part of me already convinced just as a wolf tore into the space between us and the ones lunging for us and I watched him rip through the wolves surrounding, fast, brutal, unrelenting, bodies scattering with every strike he landed.I stood frozen, watching, my heart doing something stupid and painful in my chest, refusing to let go of the hope even as some quieter part of me was already cataloguing everything wrong with the picture in front of me.The wolf was the wrong color. Black but a much lighter shade, leaning towards Ash under the moonlight.Wrong size. Smaller, noticeably smaller than Axel’s wo
~Amber’s POV~“Take one more step, and it’s the last thing you ever—”I didn’t wait to hear the rest of it.My hand was already moving before the thought fully formed, closing around the blade I had grabbed from my vanity drawer on instinct, turned in one motion, threw, and the rest of his sentence died in his throat, quite literally, the blade lodging itself exactly where I had aimed.To hell with not coming to terms with killing.The warrior dropped without another sound.“Jesus Christ, Amber.” Aria’s voice came out somewhere between horrified and stunned. “Where did you even get a blade?”“I grabbed more than the carrier.” I was already moving past the body, refusing to let myself linger on it. “Come on. They are this way.”I turned toward the cell where my father had been left, unconscious under whatever spell the witches had used to keep him under and when I reached it, it was empty.“No. No, no, no.” The words tumbled out of me before I could stop them, dread coiling fast and co
~Amber’s POV~‘Amber, wake up.’A voice that sounded distant and close all at once cut through the fog, and I groaned, shoving it away, my hands finding something warm and comfortable to sink into instead.‘Amber Moon, wake up.’ It snapped again, closer this time, sharper but whatever my hands had found was still far too comfortable to leave.‘AMBER CRYSTABEL FUCKING MOON, WAKE THE FUCK UP.’It slammed straight through my skull that time, and my whole body jolted upright on instinct, every combative reflex I had firing at once, ready to lash out at whatever had just torn me out of the dark, right as another voice cut through it, close, clear, real.“Hey, hey. It’s me. It’s Aria.”I blinked, fighting to place myself fast enough as Aria’s worried face swam into focus, the pain still throbbing behind my eyes from where I had lunged at Melissa trying to knock the bullet loose, something I should have done the second I saw it glinting, instead of standing there absorbing the rest of her m
~Axel’s POV~“I do not care!” My growl exploded, rustling the leaves on the trees. “Find her or everyone will be wondering where you disappeared to.”The head of my security swallowed hard, taking a step backwards. The lividity was so blinding I couldn’t even recall his name.He bowed his head sli
~Amber’s POV~Men were irrevocably assholes.It was a fact that had been proven over and over again by what three years ago I would have tagged as sets of bitter females. But I knew better now.And it fed directly into the anger coursing through my veins as I turned away from that man, from his cr
~Amber’s POV~‘Mate.’Roxanne’s voice filled with that same purr slammed into me with such deafening impact that it completely overwhelmed the understanding of what was happening to me, the knowledge she’d just sent flooding into my head seconds ago.I blinked, trying to push myself up to see the p
~Amber’s POV~It is expected that I begin with something intriguing, right?Something absolutely gripping that captures attention from the very first line.Preferably something entertaining.Well it is unfortunate that I would have to disappoint, because there was nothing entertaining about the gas







