Masuk~Amber’s POV~This one was a note for the girlies out there, if they ever found themselves in a state of emergency where they needed to sober up. Like in an instant.Just let the man that you pined over for three years because you were in love with him walk in on the man that you now love coming all over your face.No. Please don't do that.Drink a lot of water and maybe some coffee too, because this was not a situation anyone would want to find themselves in. And yet here I was, still frozen, still on my knees, my widened eyes locked on Ian's angry face staring back at me.Wait. Was he angry? When he was the one that walked in here?And he did it without knocking when I had been trying to reach him for days to get him to talk to me?That snapped me out of it."What the hell?" I shot to my feet, my legs wobbling beneath me, and I almost went down, would have face-planted right there in my compromising position but firm hands shot forward, steadying me by the waist. My head snapped
~Axel’s POV~If someone had told me from the first day I met her that I would end up here, right in this moment, with my heart hammering against my ribs and my control hanging by a thread, I would have called them a liar.That she would be the only one who could completely make me lose control in so many ways I didn't even know were possible. That I would be capable of wanting her this much, this desperately, with a hunger that felt like it was consuming me from the inside out. Or that I would want to do things I had never done to anyone, have things I had put personal boundaries on done to me.I blinked, realizing she was still waiting, and her face was getting even more flushed with each second that passed, pink spreading across her cheeks, down her throat, her eyes darting away with sudden insecurity."I'm sorry," she said, her voice small, before I could find my words.She tried to pull her hand away from my trousers, embarrassment rolling off her in waves, but I grabbed her wr
~Amber’s POV~Note to self: Don't breathe near alcohol ever again.Second note to self: If we did survive this and have easier, better, normal times, practice more ambushing Axel Edgewood by making the first move to initiate sex, because his expression was just to die for.That split second of naked hunger before the mask slammed back down, the way his pupils blew wide and his jaw tightened like he was physically restraining himself from devouring me whole."Now is not the time." He said it rough, trying to remove my hand from where it had slid down to the front of his trousers.I knew exactly that. I knew this was the last thing I should be doing or thinking about but I was going to blame it on the alcohol for getting me all emotionally worked up, and then suddenly, desperately horny from his scent wrapping around me.And everything aside, I was tired. Goddess, I was so tired of having to be on a freaking timeline, like I couldn't have sex with the man I loved just because there ha
~Axel’s POV~This felt like a déjà vu of Amber being kidnapped.Except this time it was every resource I had amounting to nothing, and I had never encountered anything like it before, nothing that gave me even the smallest lead to work with.So in the culmination of everything, I truly had nothing.Nothing that could help her.Though this was not only about her anymore. If this was not stopped, whatever was responsible would keep moving from pack to pack until there was nothing left of any of us.In conclusion: not good at all.The worst part was how completely out of my depth I felt about what to do next, which was the reason I was currently standing outside her door, contemplating what I was going to say. I had to reassure her or offer something that made this easier right? Since we were now together.“You do know I have werewolf hearing, right?” Her voice came through the door. “And even if I didn’t, you are not exactly being light on your feet right now.”I let out a breath. Ash
~Amber’s POV~“Something like this happened and you didn’t think it fit to inform the council?”“I—”“Are you aware of how catastrophic this is?”“I—”“If we had been informed of this, we would have—”“Have done what exactly?”I cut in before he had the chance to do the same to me for what I counted, and was not exaggerating, was the nineteenth time since he had arrived because another attack had happened. Another pack that had been hit from whatever monster was still on the loose.And this time every single one of them had died from the life being drained out of them. The worst of it was that Thomas and his scouts had not caught it fast enough, which was how the council had found out, alongside what I knew would be half the Realm by now.This was bad. This was genuinely, catastrophically bad and I knew that better than anyone. But being yelled at when I had done nothing wrong was not helping anyone so I pushed my Alpha aura out and let it fill the space between us.“I have taken y
~Amber’s POV~This was the part where I said something.When someone said “I am in love with you” especially when it was the person you knew deep down you had wanted to hear those words from because you felt that way yourself, you either said them back or you said something, any other freaking thing.So why was my mouth not moving?And why had my body locked up completely?And most importantly why was I sitting here staring at him with my mouth open like I had forgotten how faces worked?“Did you go into shock? Because I would really need to get a healer now.”That snapped me out of it and I glared at him. “What the hell is wrong with you? Why would you just say that?”“Say what?” His brows raised and a smile formed in his eyes that I had genuinely never seen before tonight. “That I love you.”“Stop saying it.”“Stop saying what? That I love you?”“Axel.” I groaned and then launched myself at him, fighting against the pain between my legs that made the whole thing considerably less
~Amber’s POV~Unfortunately… he was right.But more specifically, he was right because I looked worse than a beast. My hair was tangled into what could only be described as a bird’s nest on top of my head, mascara smudged under my eyes, and was that… dried spit at the corner of my mouth?I didn’t
~Amber’s POV~There wasn’t an ounce of recognition.He didn’t know I was his mate.I didn’t understand why and that exact perplexity was exactly how Roxanne felt. It was the only thing that registered as I made my way back to my room, found my things where I had left them, pulled them into the spac
~Amber’s POV~This bitch must really think I was playing around.“My wolf is growing agitated by each second I allow you to stay breathing and I am this close to seeing if killing you will end the spell.”I intended to follow through with the threat and the fear in her eyes got more obvious.“I am
~Amber’s POV~ List of things to do.Number one: Ignore Roxanne with much more emphasis so she knows I’m not falling for her ploy of her “not being with me much longer” because I refuse, and will continue to refuse, to take off this necklace.Number two: Find your intent. What are you going to do i







