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 PovI didn't flee from the bathroom, although, considering how I felt on the inside. I couldn't believe Paris's audacity.I couldn't believe myself as well.Why was it that after all of this time, he still had some power over me? Why was it that every time I thought I was done with him, thin
"they might be dead, Kate. But you and I both know what happened. You and I will always know what happened." he said quietly, and I froze, slowly turned to face him, and saw a smirk playing on his face,"What the hell are you saying to me?""Do you need me to spell out the details? You never know w
KATE'S POV"You sound like you're threatening me, uncle. Has anyone ever told you how much I hate to be threatened?" I asked in a very low voice. From the moment the man got out of jail. He's done nothing but make infinitesimal demands. He had done nothing but make me feel like if I didn't meet thos
"yeah," I said and reached for his hand, "yeah, I am."I tucked my hand into his and together we walked through the doors and I had to hand it to Luna Lara, it was a really beautiful space.Beautiful as it all was, I had no real plan to stay for long. I really just wanted Luna Lara to see me, rile h







