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
Kate's POVShe looked at me with her eyes popping, as though she was slowly losing it.I knew Christina to be somewhat emotionally volatile, and I didn’t think this prison cell was doing any good to her already declining mental health. But to say anything to her about that was simply asking her to s
"I had almost forgotten that I had you to deal with," I said and took one more look at the scribbles on Ember's file, I closed it and dropped it back on the doctor's table.Then I made my way out of his office. I still shot a text to Jackson about covering my tracks to which he replied "Your proble
Paris's POVI decided to follow her scent and for some reason, it led me to several different parts of the hospital."Why Ember? Did you simply go on a tour of this place?" I asked, as finally her scent lingered in the reception making me stay awhile before I followed out the doors, and then outside
While she tended to Kate inside, I paced outside, trying to understand what direction in life I was going to take. Because how, just how was I supposed to leave a woman who had no desire to be left? How was I supposed to walk away from a woman who had a vice around my neck? And who else was I bound







