Mag-log inEMBER'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
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
EMBER's POV"When we're done here, I think I want a big bowl of ice cream," I said in a small voice and Jean chuckled lightly,"I think I could make that happen.""And I think…" I said and turned so that I was looking up at his eyes, "I think I want to look at the stars tonight." I wasn't sure what
"I see you've been training, little wolf." the last man said, still grinning. I had the separate urge to wipe that stupid grin off his face. And I was going to,"And I see you've decided to be a lap dog. Life is evolving." I said and he sneered,"that smart mouth is about to get you into trouble.""
KATE'S povI stormed out of our room in anger, because I knew that if I spent one more moment in that space, I was going to do or say something that would trigger Paris and leave me in regret. But as for being rejected by him, or even daring to reject him, my decision still stood. None of it was hap







