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
"It's true though." I said honestly, and sighed as the first tear fell down my lips, "It's true that everything I did, every single thing I've done since we met each other, I've done for you.""I didn't ask you to do any of those things. Those were choices you made thinking that one way or the other
KATE'S POV"Paris!" I called out, chasing after him, until he finally paused, "Please don't do this to me." I cried out, his back turned to me.He turned to me and he looked so angry, so cold and I wondered how I had managed to ruin everything. Muddle it up so bad that he couldn't even look at me wi
PARIS'S POVShe took visible steps away from me, and I scoffed at her attempts to get away from me,"I didn't ask him to do any of those things. I didn't even know it was my cousin who did that." she blurted and I nodded,"I see. But you were on a call with him, talking about how you weren't going t
I sighed and shook my head and then shrugged, "It's not that I'm choosing to be carefree about my safety, it is just that I choose not to lose my mind over who might be trying to hurt me. In any case, I already have an inkling. It's stupid old Kate with her stupid old jealousy and insecurity. I can







