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 "you're an Alpha?" Christina asked William with a fallen face, and he simply nodded without so much as sparing her a glance, "And you're the owner of this place?" she asked the manager, and he looked at her as though spotting her for the first time, "I believe so, " It was at that mo
Paris's POV "She acts so high and mighty, as though Paris is beneath her. But we all know what she's about. "Christina said with uncontrolled anger, "I still remember the things she said when Mum and I went over to the house. She threw us out and said it was hers by right. Even if she and Paris wh
"I don't disagree," I said mildly, "so?" "so, what?" "so, if you don't think he might have feelings for you, do you at least have feelings for him?" Did I? I asked myself, and my mind wandered to the night before and how disappointed I had been that he didn't try to kiss me. "well-" I began and
EMBER's POV "to be honest, we can just stay here. We can just stay in our friendship and play it out. If we find something more along the way then we take it, and savor it." "and if we don't?" "then we don't." he said simply, reached out, and took my hand that rested on the table, "you just came







