LOGINEMBER'S POV"there you are," Axel announced when he found me still on my hair, contemplating my life,"You were looking for me?""yeah. I said I'd come to watch you guys train. I stepped outside, but found the training ground empty, and wondered where you all went.""Well, we were there." I told hi
"good. Now come at me again, and this time around, use the element of surprise. I suppose we can make this lesson four."By noon, my body was different kinds of sore, and achy, and this time around, when Jean stretched out his hand toward me to help me up, I refused to take it, lest he make us go an
EMBER'S POV"Well now," I said and struggled against his hold."you're going to have to do better than that if you want to be free of me, Baby girl.""No fair, you had not even announced the beginning of the lesson." I wailed,"The same way that bear isn't always going to announce its attack. I'm s
And then I remembered and I groaned,“I forgot.” I sighed and rubbed at my eyes, before trying to sit up, “You can tell him to wait for me, I should be down soon.”I said and caught him looking at me uncertainly and I laughed,“You don’t believe that I’m up for real?”“I don’t believe you won’t go r
EMBER’s POV“They want you to wrestle a bear?” Jean asked looking just as shocked as I had felt when I heard the news and I nodded soberly,“They say it’s the only way for me to prove myself as being strong and worthy,” I said and took my seat on Jean’s couch.I had come to tell him what had befalle
EMBER's POV"wrestle a bear?" I asked in utter confusion, as I looked from my father to my brother and back to my father again, hoping one of them would tell me that it was all a joke. But they stayed looking so sober that I knew that this wasn't a joke of any sort.But they stayed, looking sober, a
PARIS's POV"A conversation with me?" Jean asked, looking somewhat bemused"Considering the fact that we don't like each other so much, I choose to believe this one could be important." he slowly rose, "alright then.""Excuse me for a moment?" he said, turning to Ember and she nodded"you go right a
While I waited for the headache to subside, I found myself wondering about Ember.Was she okay? Did Jean get her home safely? All of these were questions I just did not have the answer to and it irked me to no endMy phone soon began to ring, and I considered just letting it go to voicemail, however
JEAN's POVI carried Ember away from Paris, hoping to put as much distance between Ember and Paris. I was not kidding when I told him he had done enough. In truth, all he had ever caused Ember was unending pain. And now, she wouldn't wake up.I looked down at her sleeping form and felt a deep ache w
PARIS'S POV"Every time I think your behavior can't get any worse, every time I believe that you might become a better version of yourself, you make me realize how wrong I am. You give me a reason to question my sanity. What sort of a person are you?""the kind of person you've refused to be. Wise.







