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
But this time was different. "ember?!" The man called out my name aggressively, and in spite of his tone, I thought he sounded quite familiar. And that was the only reason I simply did not hang up. "Who is this?" I asked with irritation." "the father of the young man you put in jail, dammit!" O
PARIS'S POV At the pack party, which I now genuinely wish had not attended, Sebastian, was brought up, and there were some who knew he was Kate's cousin, and having to deal with them was an absolute nightmare. "I saw the videos on television, the guy is an absolute lunatic." one person said, and a
"Paris." I sighed and felt tears sting the corner of my eyes, “but what are you doing here?”"hang in there, Em," he said, looking at me for only a fraction, before returning his attention back to Sebastian, who looked pale and scared,"what the hell did you think you were going to do to her?" he as
EMBER'S POV I woke up in a poorly lit room, feeling groggy and disoriented, and struggled to sit up on the cold hard floor. There was a window that told me it was still dark outside, and in the far back of my mind, I worried that my family would be worried at the fact that I wasn't home yet. But th







