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
PARIS’s POV “That will be hard.” I said “She doesn't want to speak to you, so why force it?" I slowly turned to William and narrowed my eyes, " I didn't speak to you." "It doesn't matter. I'll defend my friend regardless.""friend?" I sneered, "You and I don't know, you desire to be more than Em
"Ember, so nice to finally hear from you," I said, and alas, I succumbed to sounding overly like I had been pining away, waiting for her call. "mmm. I was able to get a hearing with the elders of the king's court. The meeting Is today, and I'm sorry it's all of a sudden. Do you think you can make i
He ran his hand down my cheek, "this would be the time I ask for permission to pour that man in the face for not properly loving my daughter. But I see now that he never killed your light. Oh, he might have dimmed it, for a period of time, but killed it? He never could do such a thing. Now look how
Ember's Pov I could still see Paris's face in my head as I made my way home. I could go on and about wanting a divorce, but he filled my head and heart most days, which made me worry and wonder how I would ever move past him. It was as though some days I moved one step, only to move five steps bac







