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
PARIS'S POV"I didn't play any role in anything my uncle might have done, Paris. He's a full-grown man and I'm not responsible for the choices he makes. " I narrowed my eyes on her, and she froze."you aren't responsible for the choices he makes. A full-grown man. And yet, you're the one who is fund
PARIS'S POVIt was both the most selfless, and kindest thing I had ever done. Letting Ember go.I was both liberated and heartbroken. And I wondered how a person could feel so much in such equal and destructive amounts. I wanted alcohol, wanted to lose myself in the bottle, but Jackson caught me whi
EMBER'S POVI woke up once again, in a dimly lit room, and it felt like Deja vu for so many obvious reasons. Except, this time around, I didn't wake up feeling nauseous and weak. Instead, I felt quite rested and energized. But it took several moments before I finally registered where I was. The spa
PARIS'S POV"Ember? Em!" I shouted, but she was unconscious now. The wolfsbane had been too much for her to handle. I wanted so badly to head back and deal with the man who had caused all of this, but Ember had asked me to let it be. If I didn't listen to Ember, that man was going to die in my hands







