Ashina – After leaving Margarets suite, I headed over to Andor’s office, Once I had made it to his door, I knew he was there by the delicious scent he emits. I could feel myself weak in the knees. He must have scented me too, because he opened his door to let me in without me having to knock on the door. By the looks of Andor, without a shirt all sweaty in his gym shorts, I am guessing he just got back from working out or training. Either way I was frozen with my eyes glued to his dripping chest with sweat running down it. He glistened like I would imagine after having hot sex. My core was wet yearning for his touch. I suddenly got a hold of myself, and turned around and ran to our room. I needed to shower and change, or every male wolf would smell my arousal. Kiera – “Why don’t we ask our mate aka sex machine to shower with us” My wolf purrs. Ashina – “No, we need to get business done today; how will we ever get out of the shower with him in it?” My wolf laughs, "Why would we

Ashina –There is nothing worse than feeling tension in a room full of people who have been brought together for a common goal. In order to resolve all the rivalries and misconceptions about each other, I had to speak with everyone and express my concerns.We should let go of our animosities if we are to defeat a common enemy and work together as a cohesive team.As I stand far from my mate, I must think logically about strategies for entering the Royal Kingdoms pack relatively undetected and with the mate-bond relatively strong between Andor and myself. As a result of not completing the mating and marking process, our wolves are experiencing an insanity crisis. For an Alpha wolf, the negative part of this scenario is that I am not marked or have Andor's scent on me, and I am standing too close to Cadma, and I perceive Andor shooting daggers across the room towards him. As a point of clarification, it was my brother who was standing next to Cadma that caused me to be so close to him.

Cadma –As hot as the molten lava from an active volcano, my heart is filled with anger. We haven't had a chance to develop our love because Ashina hasn't given it a chance? Aside from the mate bond, what separates Andor from me? We might be able to make our love work if I could just free her from the mate bond. Irlas –'Seriously,' you ask? What kind of ignorant human are you! I wonder how the Gods allowed you to be my human. When you weren't humping every she-dragon in our clan, you were following Ashina like one of those mutts. Despite your attempt to make out with other females in front of Ashina, she didn't show any interest in you romantically. Isn't that obvious to you? Her romantic feelings for you are nonexistent; she has none!” Cadma –The fury within my soul burst forth, pounding against the walls of my suite. A hole the size of a grapefruit was visible in the next room as a result of my punching the wall so hard. Could it be that this stupid dragon does not understand

Cornelius - "You just wretched over my new shoes. Now I need to buy a new pair. This will come out of my cousin's Hyde. Calm Down “Calm down!" Ashina - Cousin? Who is his Cousin? He is not going to trick me; I will kill the blood-sucking Vampire! If he wasn't planning to sink his teeth into me, why is he not letting me go?! I could hear the rustling of leaves and laughter. Rector is growling, but who would be laughing? "Cornelius, could you let my mate go? No doubt she thinks you want to drink her blood as a snack. How are you, my cousin? More importantly, why are you in my territory without letting me know first?" In my anger, I could not recognize the pain caused by Cornelius dropping me like a sack of potatoes. My gaze turned to him, and I snapped and growled at him. As of yet, Kiera was not so sure he was not a danger. "Kiera, let Ashina take over. There are clothes behind some of the trees around." Kiera did as Andor instructed and headed behind some trees and got changed.

I was outside in the cool night air. The wind blew my ponytail across my face as if it were whiplash. I felt a pain in my head. I ended up wrapping my hair up in a bun and trying to wrap all my hair in a snug little pony holder. Thinking about today and this evening, something felt off. I couldn’t pinpoint it. First, the vampire was going to lend me some of his vampires to fight Malcolm. He explained that Malcolm was experimenting with humans, trying to change them into varied species and then mercilessly killing them. There seemed to be no end to Malcolm's treachery. What had prevented anyone from revolting against him for so many years? While I wasn't sure if I wanted to accept bloodsuckers into my crew, everyone convinced me that the vamps' ability to go invisible and make their way around Malcolm's territory while no one knew it was a good sale, plus they could hypnotize people by just looking at them. Now, hypnotizing doesn’t work in large groups. They had to look at a person on