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
Ember's Pov "I guess this is your stop," Jean said when we reached my gate, and I suddenly did not want the evening to end. It turned to look at him, hoping we had not reached that point in our relationship where there was a mind link, "I guess this is my stop," I said and stretched out my hand to
"What plan do you have, sire?" "it will come. But I'm going to need you to find out more about him." "Of course, sire." EMBER'S POV I wasn't wrong about the stubbornness of the male gender. It proved through when I got off work the day after and found Jean waiting for me beside my car, wearing a
PARIS'S Pov "I fear I'm going to lose you," I said to her and she looked up at me with a smile, "Your fears are unnecessary. I'm just willing to get to know my mate." "Ember, that all in itself, is the beginning of a love affair with him. You get to know him, and then what? You find out you like
I had foreseen that response, and had the perfect reply to convince her, "I know, you might feel that going out with me might not be something that you want right now, but I promise not to do anything that you might not want." "I appreciate your desire to respect my boundaries and all, but tonight







