All Chapters of Fated to my One Night Stand: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

~Axel’s POV~ What. The. Hell. In. The. Goddess. Name. Is. That. Sound?Ash surged to the surface in preparation to attack or defend against whatever it was that was causing the noise, but it didn’t sound like something borne of violence.With a begrudging protest from my entire body, I pushed myself off the bed that either I was just now realizing was the coziest bed ever or my body was just so extremely tired from not resting properly after the poisoning.The intensity of the sound increased and Ash growled against the surface just as I pushed the curtains open. Faint morning light crept in and through it, my eyes landed on Amber Moon, completely dressed, standing next to a man holding a freaking trumpet.What the hell was she doing?My hands reached to open the window and ask her exactly that when Zane appeared in my line of focus, right in front of her.I tugged at his psych immediately. ‘Zane, what is this?’His clearly still sleep-induced, irritated, and aggravated reply came ju

~Axel’s POV~Dislike, irritation, and anger were the three feelings I was most attuned to.Since I had met Amber Moon, they had become more dominant. Her. Everything that revolved around her. All of it triggered those three emotions in rapid succession.But right now, all three shot through me at once, burning past the irritation I had been feeling about her calm act, passed Amber and landed squarely on Cassandra standing at the entrance of my jet.And even though it would never happen again, I completely agreed with Amber’s assessment.“What the hell are you doing here, Cassandra?”She flinched backward, her narrowed eyes moving from Amber to me. When she spoke, her tone suggested I was an idiot for not seeing the obvious. “Going back home. What does it look like, Axel?”Amber’s head snapped toward me, her entire body going rigid. “It is bad enough that I have to be in here for six hours locked up with you. I will not with her.”Cassandra’s face twisted into a mocking smile. “‘I will

~Axel’s POV~ “They are going to murder each other,” Zane said as soon as we both stepped into the room.I was already well aware of that. More specifically, Amber would kill Cassandra because I had felt a ripple of her power earlier, sharp and uncontrolled. Even though Cassandra was powerful, most of it stemmed from her above-everyone attitude and sheer arrogance, not actual strength.“I see that is your intention.” Zane’s voice held a touch of humor. “Kill two birds literally with one stone.”My eyes moved away from the door I had been staring at and swept across the room instead. Faded floral wallpaper peeling at the corners. A bed that looked like it had seen better days decades ago. Carpet so worn the pattern was barely visible. A lamp on the nightstand with a shade that didn’t match.The level I had worked hard to place myself at kicked in unconsciously, my entire being recoiling at how beneath me this place was.But I had survived traveling through the woods for weeks before. I

~Axel’s POV~ I knew she was going to throw it at me.And she was lucky that the cost of the bottle translated directly into the quality of the glass, which meant I knew it wouldn’t break. Otherwise I genuinely would have made her replace it, regardless of the sharp little gasp of shock that she hadn’t realized her action that left her lips, all of that happening in the same second the lights went out.‘Zane.’ I reached through our psych link immediately, channeling my heightened senses at the same time to cut through the dark, fixing my eyes on Amber Moon where she stood frozen, looking like someone who had just fully registered what they had done.‘With the number of times you call my name,’ his reply came instantly, ‘I would be offended if you don’t name your firstborn son after me.’I ignored that. ‘What happened to the lights?’‘They went out.’‘I can see they went out,’ I snapped. ‘Why?’‘I don’t know, Axel,’ He shot back, and even through the link his tone had an edge to it,

~Axel POV~ It was simple.I was bored, I knew sleep wasn’t coming, and the very well-documented asshole part of me that I had never particularly tried to hide had decided to take the wheel.And I might have taken the outrageous expression that had shot across her face after I asked the question as a cue to stop but I was so thoroughly entertained that I pushed forward instead.“It wasn’t a rhetorical question, Prin—”The slap landed before I finished the word.The shock of it wiped everything else out for a full second — the sound, the sting spreading across my cheek, the sheer fact that she had done it and before I could snap back to myself her voice cut in, cold in a way that was completely different from her usual anger. Quieter. Harder.“Don’t you dare ever disrespect me like that again.”Then she was off the bed, across the room, and the door slammed behind her hard enough to rattle the frame.The room went very still.My cheek stung. Ash let out a low, disapproving growl some