LOGIN~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
~Axel’s POV~I didn’t know it was possible to feel this much for one person.Or for it to culminate into just one feeling, something I was certain I had never felt before but somehow knew without a single ounce of doubt was exactly what it was.I was in love with her.I had said I didn’t know why the universe would make us mates when we were not good for each other and all things considered, we weren’t. What had just happened proved it.But we matched each other.We had matched each other from the very start. I just hadn’t known that was what it was. Hadn’t had the language for it or the willingness to look at it directly long enough to call it by its name.She made a soft sound right then, pulling my attention to her even though it had never really left, and pushed her body closer into mine.A smile touched my lips before I decided to smile.Somewhere in between I had carried her to the bed and pulled her right back into me, this time so I could watch her sleep because even the sligh
~Amber’s POV~I wanted to move past it.He wanted to move past it, deep down, I knew he did. We needed to move past it. End the toxicity, for our sake and for Asher's sake.He hadn't taken his eyes off me. Hadn't let his gaze slide down to my body even once, and I knew I had let my hair down first as some kind of protection, some shield against being so exposed in front of him. But it did nothing. Nothing to protect me from how cold his eyes were, and at the same time, from the heat pouring off him that felt lethal, as if all that anger couldn't wait to unleash itself on me.Even though he was holding himself back. Barely. The thought alone made me swallow hard.I knew what I was asking him to do. I knew, just like what he had said about the need to hurt me, that it was fucked up. No. It was more than fucked up. But if he had no choice, then this was the only way I could control it. So I would take the pain, however much there would be, and hope that there would be enough pleasur
~Amber’s POV~…I walked away.Again with me about to ask a question even though no answer would come.That wasn’t the reaction anyone would have expected right? I should have stormed in there, confronted him and that bitch right then and there but instead my hands had retracted, I had taken a step back and with a forced smile at Rosella, not saying another word, I had walked away and kept walking, my mind completely numb from everything.I couldn’t even think because I couldn’t comprehend it.It was simply… I just couldn’t. It was only when my legs finally registered how far I had gone that I hailed a cab back to the Palace. With that same numbness, I had gone straight to the room he was staying in because maybe, just maybe, being around his scent would build some comprehension of how he could do something like this.But the universe couldn’t just make it easy for me.Because the moment I stepped into the room, the moment his scent hit me, something else hit me with the same force.
~Axel’s POV~I had learned at a very early stage that anger was one of the things I had to get control of because it was the worst of my emotions.As horrible as it was, it being unleashed for the first time when I was nineteen which was also when the fear my father had instilled in me both emotionally and physically had eased up for the first time, with him being the recipient of the anger. For one moment I had stopped being the one on the receiving end of everything he dished out and something in that had shifted something in me permanently. Not for the better necessarily. But it had shifted.But that didn’t change the fact that I either controlled it or it would control me making making me do horrible unforgettable things so I had learned. It had not been easy and it had not been quick but I had learned.It wasn’t like I didn’t get angry. There was more than enough evidence to state otherwise. My never ending war with my father that had been running since I was old enough to unde
~Axel’s POV~ ‘She put her at the bottom of the ocean! Not metaphorically like I had thought, at the freaking bottom of the ocean.’I was already feeling the effects of having to take another flight back out when I had barely landed an hour ago and Amber Moon’s extremely livid voice through our psy
~Axel’s POV~ Clicking.“Axel, I don’t—”Harder clicking.“It all just happened. I don’t know what—”My fingers ran through the keys of the laptop with even harder intensity, trying to drown out the rest of his words like I had been doing for the past five minutes, but this time my hand went right
~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 a
~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 h







