LOGIN~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~Know your friends well.And know your enemies better.Unfortunately for me—and admittedly I had made the mistake of truly placing Salvatore in the friend of little relevance category so I had no idea of a connection existing between Roland Moon and Antonio Russo.“Amber.” I said, rising already, having felt the shock that hit her that paralleled with my own surprise from his words. “We are leaving.”The door burst open at that and Ash rose to the surface, ready for my command on when he should be let out as my head snapped toward it, and two men with guns aimed directly at Amber stood in the doorway.“No one is going anywhere.” Salvatore’s icy voice followed, one he had never directed at me in all our previous associations.I opened the psych link between us back up. ‘Stay calm and let me handle this.’I expected her to follow up with an explosion of how I had brought her here, how this was my fault, how she was going to kill me herself if these men didn’t do it first.In
~Amber’s POV~You have got to be kidding me.The words were at the tip of my tongue despite the fact that Axel had asked me not to speak and I now understood firsthand why but before I could let them out, Axel spoke.“Done.”I thought my head had snapped toward him before from surprise, but now my head turned with such force I heard my neck crack. Before I could get a chance to speak, this time the words would be directed at him Salvatore laughed.It sounded as slimy as when he spoke. He reached out, tapped Axel’s shoulder, wrapped his hand around him in a position that looked awkward due to the height difference.“Very well, my friend. Come, come. Sit with me. Dine with me while my men have him brought out.”“Untouched.” Axel’s voice was curt. His eyes scanned the room.The smile tilted off Salvatore’s face slightly. “Unfortunately, it might be a little too late for that. You know how these things are when there is no hope of settling their debt.”Oh Goddess, what had they done to h
~Amber’s POV~If I had ever been told that the question I asked in a complete fit of rage with the intention to find my best friend would lead me here, I never would have believed it.“Try not to look so disgusted. It is just a building.”Axel Edgewood’s irritating voice made me look away from what I had been staring at and I fixed my glare on him, the one I should not have let leave my face in the first place.“I told you to only speak to me when necessary or I will complete what I intended to do after I kicked down your door. I will kick you where the sun doesn’t shine.”His blank eyes fixed on me and it pricked at me how unbothered he always managed to look. “You know, for someone who claims to hate me, you sure do think and talk about my dick a lot.”At the sound of that word, the image slammed into me, him thrusting into me brutally in that dream, how all-consuming it had been, how much I had enjoyed it and it took great effort not to let my expression shift or change.I leveled
~Axel’s POV~“I think you might just have to accept that she has truly disappeared from the—”“Do not finish that statement, Zane.” I cut him off, unconsciously wondering why I had even let him get that far.He narrowed his eyes at me, looked back at the spelled glass even though he knew no one cou
~Amber’s POV~I did see.Now all I wanted to do was unsee.Goddess help me, I wanted to unsee the pair of largest boobs that had just been practically shoved in my face.Axel Edgewood killing that witch had shocked me. This had most definitely traumatized me for life.And Timothy laughing heavily n
~Amber’s POV~I kept having this recurring dream. And it always started the exact same way.My father’s voice, strong and proud, echoing through the grand hall.“Lords and Ladies of the Realm, Alphas and Lunas, honored guests—it is my greatest privilege to present to you my daughter, heir to the th
~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







