PHOENIX
An angry voice has me jolting awake. With my heart pounding in my chest, I sit up, trying to blink away the sleep from my eyes. I look around the room, as confused as I was scared when I hear the voice again, still in that same high annoyed pitch.
“Get up this instant!” Now that I’m not half asleep, I know it is Lady Gloria yelling. Why am I not surprised by that? What is she doing here in the middle of the night? I need to wake up early for my—“You’re late!”
That single sentence makes the sleep disappear from my eyes and with wide eyes, I stare at her. It hits me like a slap on t
PHOENIXI walked out of Prince Zanders’ room without giving him a reply to his question. I feel like it doesn’t need a verbal response, or any kind of response even.Although I don’t waste my time with him, I’m still thinking about what he said, and it doesn’t matter how much I try to distract myself with other thoughts. It always comes back to that.There is no way I can leave Prince Ezra and go to work for his brother. With the obvious bad blood between them, I don’t want to cause any problems, or to be in the middle of any type of drama. I
PHOENIXA small gasp of surprise is the only sound I’m able to muster. I keep my head up even as Sibel wraps her hand around my throat and shoves me against the wall. Trapping me with her armored body.“What do you think?” Sibel spits with venom coating her tone. “That using the prince would frighten me?” she laughs but it holds no mirth. “Don’t be stupid,” her lips turn down in an ugly sneer. “Do. No. Ever. Use him. To. Try. And. Scare. Me. Again.” she stresses, putting emphasis on each word.I only give her a blank loo
PHOENIX“Phoenix, I asked if your face hurts.” I blink a few times to clear whatever haze appeared in my eyes. My cheeks instantly flame when I see the look in his eyes. It is like he can see that he can see the dirty thoughts I’m having on my face.He moves back, a deep laugh rumbling in his chest. It makes my insides quiver again and I feel my wolf stir, she is as confused about our reaction to him as I am which makes me feel a little better. I don’t like any funny business, especially when he is involved.
EZRAI can’t explain the anger I felt seeing that mark on my mate’s face, though she gave me an excuse that is somewhat believable, a part of me still thinks there is more to it than her just hitting her face.I mean, I am not dumb and the finger marks are very obvious. Someone hit her and they won’t like what I’ll do to them when I find out.“Hey man,” Nate says, stepping in line beside me. I haven’t seen him since he told me about what he learned from Phoenix’s parents. He even sat out on the meeting earlier, he is that tired.
PHOENIXMy sweet sleep is disturbed by the sound of a door opening, even then I reach for the pillow and place it over my head with the hopes of cutting off the sound. It doesn’t work.“What do you think you’re doing?!” something cold splashes on me and I scream before jumping off the bed, my eyes widen in shock as I take in the room, my now wet hair sticking to my forehead. “What is wrong with you?” Lady Gloria yells, coming into view, her usual scowl on her face and that death glare being sent my way.“I…I,” I blink, trying to get my bearings right. I’m still sleepy, my body is more than ready to shut off again due to exhaustion.“Are you going to talk or have you lost that ability too?” my wolf growls angrily, being as annoyed by this intrusion as I am. I block her out and focus on Lady Gloria, my eyes are more than open now. “It is past lunch time, and Prince Ezra has been waiting for you for the past two hours.”My eyes bulge out and I curse, running to the bathroom to fix myself
EZRAAfter waiting for Phoenix for more than fifteen minutes, I decided to go and find her myself. I tell myself it is because I’m worried she got lost or maybe someone stopped her, specifically Zanders. I’ve also planned how I was going to break all the bones in his body if that turned out to be the case.I didn’t find her anywhere, I even checked the kitchen. I think the last time I was there was when my mother was alive. She loved cooking and even though she didn’t have to ever touch anything in the name of working, she cooked when she needed to get her mind off something. There were a lot of things she wanted to get her off.Phoenix wasn’t there either, at this point, I started to panic, because where could she be? The palace is big but I don’t think she will go out and get lost on her way back. She doesn’t look like the type that intentionally goes looking for trouble.‘No, she is the type that trouble comes to find. It is an amazing trait.’ I block out my wolf before he has me s
PHOENIXI walk out of Prince Ezra’s chambers like someone is following me with a bat. The only thing that is following me is the risk of getting fired and that is worse than a bat. My wolf may have bad healing abilities but that didn’t mean she didn’t have any at all. I’ll survive a bat, getting fired? Not so much.I hold down the need to rejoice when I see the kitchen empty, I get to work immediately and prepare the only thing that comes to my mind, and also the fastest thing I can get ready.The time
EZRAA shiver of satisfaction goes through me and I have to go to great lengths, aka steeling my spine, to stop it from being obvious. Phoenix’s face adds more and more color by the second and to say I’m loving it will be an understatement.I ball my hands into fists and keep them by my side to stop from physically reaching for her, even without that, I know I’m leaning forward. It comes too naturally, I’m surprised she doesn’t feel as drawn to me as I am to her. There could be a million people near me but I know my attention will be on her, I know my eyes will find her.