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
Ember's POVI got the invite from Luna Lara and knew from the get-go it was nothing good, but alas when I read the letter, it was more than clear to me that he was clearly trying to spite me."Please, grace this occasion of my daughter's homecoming with your presence, as it would mean a lot to me, a
PARIS'S POV"That's unkind, Paris," she said and I leaned back on my chair and faced the screen, but in truth, I wasn't watching it. My mind was in a whole lot of different places. One of them, and the core center was the fact that Ember and Jean had made up.I didn't want Ember to spend the rest of
I waited for her to say whatever made her mouth flop though, but no sound came until she finally heaved out a sigh,"I know an apology isn't enough to fix everything. Surely it won’t be enough to fix this. So, I'm willing to do all that I can, all that I need to, to fix this. So whatever it takes, w
EMBER'S POV"Too full of hatred and bitterness is a bit too much, don't you think, Ember?" Kate said, shifting from one foot to another, and I eyed her curiously,"Too much for you, Kate? No, I don't think so. Considering the fact that you almost killed me, and still had the audacity to confront me







