MasukEMBER'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 POVJean's words stayed with me long after our meeting. And I suppose it stayed with Jackson too, because he was the first to bring it up,"that jean bloke isn't such a bad guy. I mean, if you cancel out the part where he is trying his darndest to make Ember love him and abandon you." Jackso
Ember’s Pov“What’s got your knickers in a twist?” Axel asked the next morning while I paced around the kitchen.I only looked at him in acknowledgment before I went back to considering the things that burdened my mind.“Em?” He asked and placed a hand on my shoulder,“It’s Jean,” I said rubbing at
KATE’s POV"Damn stupid beta. Damned bloody Paris. making me love you, making me suffer for you!" I let out an aggravated scream as tears burned the back of my throat, and unable to hold in my anger anymore, I tossed my phone on the wall. Because even though I knew the phone was guiltless, someone o
"You think you are all that. You get one big girl job and you think you're more than a meaningless omega. You are nothing!""I'd rather be nothing than be a bully. What, did you think you could come here and bully me freely? I'll have you know I'm not the ember you tossed about like a rag.""no. Th







