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
Ember's Pov "and you and I are both done with all of the things that break you, are we not?" William asked, reaching for my hand. I smiled when he held me, but I could not bring myself to answer truthfully. I did want to be done with all of the things that broke my heart. But I wasn't sure those
Axel's pov "Do you mind being a little more elaborate on this one? How do you plan on using the mate bond? And whose mate bond? Paris?" "Of course, it's Paris's. his bond with Kate should work pretty fine." "Okay. Explain." "Well, here it is. One of the reasons Paris and Ember had a fallout was
~~~~ "Ember? What took you so long? Did something happen?" William exclaimed as he got up from the chair when I finally appeared, "I'm fine. Really, I am." I said, and chuckled, when he kept feeling for my temperature, "I simply got caught in a conversation, forgive them for that one. I know you w
Ember's Pov "Ember? Are you alright?" I knew William was talking. I heard him talk, but I couldn't bring myself to pay attention to what he was saying, or even respond, "I" I drew my brows and turned to the man that every part of me reacted to, and trembled when I found him looking at me with the







