AMBER’S POV When I woke up the following day I found myself being choked by the muscular man next to me, I remembered that sometime during the night I had fallen asleep after I gave up trying to get out of his chokehold. I looked at him and wondered how I had landed myself in this situation. I couldn’t stop cursing at Cain and Elder Marcus because they were the reason I was here. Why did I agree to this? I asked myself why I hadn't fought harder to get them to let me stay but then I remembered that I was told that I didn’t have a say in the matter. It was a decision that was made on my behalf by my self-appointed guardian.I tried once more to get out of his hold to avail and I sighed and looked at him in frustration, I considered waking him up but I just knew that waking him up was not going to do me any good. He was not going to let me go even if I asked. I wished he could just let me go so that I could go back home. As if the moon goddess (whom I still didn’t believe in) had heard
CHAD’S POV I had a very bad dream, in the dream, I had lost my mate and I was searching for her but I couldn’t find her. I searched for her everywhere I could think of but I just couldn’t find her. It was as if she had been taken from me by someone, someone that I had never seen before, someone who had no face. This particular person was no wolf and yet he seemed to think that he had some kind of claim over my mate. She seemed to want to go with him and although I fought for her as hard as I could I still lost her. It was like I had her one second and the next second she was gone. I woke up sweating and my eyes wide open as if I had just seen some kind of a monster. I was hoping that my dream wouldn’t become a reality as I woke up but I was greeted by an empty and cold side of the bed. I got off my bed and checked around the room hoping to see her but she wasn’t there. Where the hell could she have been? I had been holding on so tight to her the whole night and I couldn’t understand
AMBER’S POV Not only was the creep that was keeping me here my mate but he was also the king that I had been demanding to see. I can't even begin to explain how embarrassed I was when I discovered that he was the man that I had been demanding to see ever since I got here. the smirk on his face when he realized that I was shocked was disgusting to me and very infuriating. I didn’t even know what to do with the information that I had just received or how to react to it. On the one hand, I found myself feeling things that I knew that I had no business feeling for anyone and on the other hand I was on a mission, a mission that I couldn't afford to mess up because it was my chance to prove myself. I knew that if I didn’t complete this mission I would get in trouble back home. I was expected to be back with results and even though I had not been given a time frame and told how long I had to get these answers, I knew that I didn’t have much time. I was certain that there would be dire cons
AMBER’S POVMy celebration for the so-called king keeping his distance from me was short-lived because he was soon knocking on the door and demanding me to let him in. I tried to ignore him the first couple of times that he knocked on the door hoping that he would go away but he just persisted in knocking and wouldn't give up. My wolf reminded me that he probably had the spare key to the room and that he could break the door down if he wanted to but I refused to be bullied by my wolf and the king. My time here had been horrible so far but I tried to look on the bright side, which was the fact that despite the fact that Chad knew that I was an intruder he hadn't tried to interrogate me or even confine me to the room that I was in. I was in the room because I chose to stay on my own.If I was honest to myself I would have to admit the fact that I had gotten good treatment in the royal city, the treatment I received here was way better than what I h
CHAD’S POVThe honest truth was that I was deeply wounded by what my mate had said to me, I was hurt that she wasn’t even willing to give me a chance to prove to her that I wasn’t just any man I was her mate and I felt that had to count for something. I wanted her to see that I wasn’t like all the other man that she had met in her life. What she said to me where the words that I had never thought I would hear a woman say to me and for a split second I wanted to give up on her and allow her to leave. She was certain that she didn’t want me without even giving me a chance, she was sure that she wanted nothing to do with me but my heart and my wolf simply refused to accept that fact. I felt like if I simply gave up on her now I would be accepting defeat without even trying to fight for her. I hadn’t put in effort to convince her that I was a good an so now was not the time for me to give up. I was sure that there was something that I could do
AMBER’S POVI had gotten really bored in the room after Chad left and I thought that instead of wasting my time in his room, I had to go out and find out if there was any way I could escape the palace. Being around Chad was driving me crazy not only because he always seemed to be happy even after all the horrible things that I would say to him but also because of the feelings that were undeniable starting to develop for him. I knew that it was only a matter of time before the feelings took over and overwhelmed me and I had to get out before then. I had seen how wolves with mates behaved and I just didn’t want that to be me, I hated feeling vulnerable and I was willing to do anything to not feel this way. I refused to allow Chad to make me weak after I had worked so hard to leave my days of weakness behind me.After I bathed I went out of the room and took my time getting to know the palace, it seemed that Chad had told everyone who I was and eve
CHAD’S POVEverything seemed to be going well and Amber was giving into my advances without fighting me off like I had expected to. I couldn’t understand why she was angry with me since she claimed that she didn’t care about what I did. However, despite her anger towards me, she did allow me to kiss her and touch her just as I hungered to. I wanted her and I knew that I couldn’t forcefully take her, I didn’t want her to see me as a monster because I wasn’t, I may have been viewed as a monster by others but I didn’t want her to see me in the same way, I wanted her to know the most intimate parts about me just as I wanted to know hers. Our make-out session was suddenly cut short by none other than Amber herself when she finally realized that she didn’t want to do this with me.”What is wrong with you?” she asked me as she got off the bed where we had been lying and she shot up to her feet. She scratched her
AMBER’S POVI woke up in the middle of the night feeling cold only to realize that I was sleeping alone on the bed. Even though I had been fighting Chad and I had been insisting on him sleeping on his own I had gotten accustomed to him forcing his way into my blankets. It was him forcing his way into my space that I missed the most. I also missed the attention that he gave me of course those were things that I was not willing to admit to him but my wolf forced me to admit them to myself.I honestly don’t know what I was expecting when I woke up, but I definitely wasn't expecting to wake up to no one in the room with me. I was expecting Chad to at least be sleeping on the floor or even on the chair but words couldn’t even describe the disappointment I felt when I realized that neither of the two was the case. I was suddenly overwhelmed with a feeling of loneliness and I hated myself for it, I was allowing myself to be vulnerable and I was afraid