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
"I've been here before. In another life. So, I suppose, I was remembering. I couldn't help myself."He looked like he wanted to say something, but simply nodded, before looking out over the place, "perhaps I should have chosen a place far away from your youth."I giggled, "My youth?"He shrugged, "y
Axel's Pov"Reject Jean? Why should she do that? Why do you feel she would do that?""I looked her in the eyes when she spoke to him, I watched her today. Her wolf is attracted to him, I'm sure of that. But her heart? It's not locked in. and I worry that if Paris presses further, she will reject him
"mm." was all he replied. And since I was unsure what to follow up with, I simply nodded, before going to meet Jean. My mate was too excited, and I immediately forgot the guilt I had felt from leaving Paris, "you're at my project space?" "I came somewhat late. I had plans of seeing your work.""h
EMBER's POV Every word he said, made me feel more and more guilty. But I wasn't lying, about Jean and I spending time together, he was just fixed on being dramatic about it. Even I had not been so dramatic when the tables were turned and he was constantly choosing Kate over me. "I'm not trying to







