All Chapters of Fated to my One Night Stand: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

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Chapter Thirty One: Multi. If We Are Being Specific

~Axel’s POV~ What. The. Hell. In. The. Goddess. Name. Is. That. Sound?Ash surged to the surface in preparation to attack or defend against whatever it was that was causing the noise, but it didn’t sound like something borne of violence.With a begrudging protest from my entire body, I pushed myself off the bed that either I was just now realizing was the coziest bed ever or my body was just so extremely tired from not resting properly after the poisoning.The intensity of the sound increased and Ash growled against the surface just as I pushed the curtains open. Faint morning light crept in and through it, my eyes landed on Amber Moon, completely dressed, standing next to a man holding a freaking trumpet.What the hell was she doing?My hands reached to open the window and ask her exactly that when Zane appeared in my line of focus, right in front of her.I tugged at his psych immediately. ‘Zane, what is this?’His clearly still sleep-induced, irritated, and aggravated reply came ju

Chapter Thirty Two: Oh. Hell. No.

~Amber’s POV~ Of course he was.Of fuck—No. I stopped myself because I would not be doing any of that anymore. I would be absolutely proper. There would be no cursing and definitely no more reacting for whatever reason.No matter how angry I got, I would let it pass over me like a cloud.With that, I closed my eyes, let out a sigh, opened them but the irritation shot right back up because I was still in his freaking private jet because as it turned out, Axel Edgewood was a freaking billionaire.Why would the Moon Goddess reward his bad attitude with so much money?I had thought all this while the Palace carried the Edgewood pack and we enjoyed other resources in return. I couldn’t even begin to understand how much of his resources we—I—had been living on.‘Amber, remember the promise you made yourself after you left Jameson. Deep breath.’I did exactly that, pulling air slowly into my lungs, holding it, releasing it with control, then I opened my eyes feeling much calmer and actua

Chapter Thirty Three: The Moon Goddess Has a Sick Sense of Humor

~Axel’s POV~Dislike, irritation, and anger were the three feelings I was most attuned to.Since I had met Amber Moon, they had become more dominant. Her. Everything that revolved around her. All of it triggered those three emotions in rapid succession.But right now, all three shot through me at once, burning past the irritation I had been feeling about her calm act, passed Amber and landed squarely on Cassandra standing at the entrance of my jet.And even though it would never happen again, I completely agreed with Amber’s assessment.“What the hell are you doing here, Cassandra?”She flinched backward, her narrowed eyes moving from Amber to me. When she spoke, her tone suggested I was an idiot for not seeing the obvious. “Going back home. What does it look like, Axel?”Amber’s head snapped toward me, her entire body going rigid. “It is bad enough that I have to be in here for six hours locked up with you. I will not with her.”Cassandra’s face twisted into a mocking smile. “‘I will

Chapter Thirty Four: Room 203 and Good Luck

~Amber’s POV~ Offending—or more specifically, disappointing—my father seventeen times in total.Sleeping with a man who was a stranger, even though he was my mate, on the night we met.Continuously cursing, which was not the proper way to act as a Princess.Those were the only crimes I had committed during my existence in the universe and they couldn’t be that bad. They couldn’t warrant the constant need the universe seemed to have to push me to a point of complete aggravation, especially when I was trying so desperately to stay calm.And it had struck again with the words that had just left the receptionist’s lips in the small town we had been forced to land in.“I’m sorry, Sir, but there are only two rooms available.”Even though I already knew the answer, I still looked around at the four people involved.Cassandra, raising her phone in the air with a frown on her face, probably complaining to someone about the lack of cell service. Axel and Zane standing in front of the desk, bot

Chapter Thirty Five: Her Blood Is on Your Hands

~Axel’s POV~ “They are going to murder each other,” Zane said as soon as we both stepped into the room.I was already well aware of that. More specifically, Amber would kill Cassandra because I had felt a ripple of her power earlier, sharp and uncontrolled. Even though Cassandra was powerful, most of it stemmed from her above-everyone attitude and sheer arrogance, not actual strength.“I see that is your intention.” Zane’s voice held a touch of humor. “Kill two birds literally with one stone.”My eyes moved away from the door I had been staring at and swept across the room instead. Faded floral wallpaper peeling at the corners. A bed that looked like it had seen better days decades ago. Carpet so worn the pattern was barely visible. A lamp on the nightstand with a shade that didn’t match.The level I had worked hard to place myself at kicked in unconsciously, my entire being recoiling at how beneath me this place was.But I had survived traveling through the woods for weeks before. I

Chapter Thirty Six: The Darkness Came at the Right Time

~Amber’s POV~ The words landed like a physical blow.Her blood is on your hands, Princess.I didn’t think. I didn’t breathe. Before the sentence had even finished settling into the air, my legs were already moving, carrying me out of the room and down the hallway at a dead sprint.The front desk was empty.Panic hit me like cold water to the face. I spun in a full circle, heart slamming against my ribs, eyes sweeping the cramped lobby — the peeling wallpaper, the flickering fluorescent light and the now empty counter. I closed my eyes and pulled hard, reaching for her scent.There — faint traces of floral perfume and nervous sweat cutting through the stale indoor air. I latched onto it and followed it out through the front door, the night air hitting my face in a cold rush.Outside, I turned in every direction, scanning the dark parking lot, the road beyond it, the tree line swallowed in shadows. The scent was there but distant. Fading. Like it had already traveled further than my

Chapter Thirty Seven: The Kiss Was the Consequence

~Axel’s POV~ I knew she was going to throw it at me.And she was lucky that the cost of the bottle translated directly into the quality of the glass, which meant I knew it wouldn’t break. Otherwise I genuinely would have made her replace it, regardless of the sharp little gasp of shock that she hadn’t realized her action that left her lips, all of that happening in the same second the lights went out.‘Zane.’ I reached through our psych link immediately, channeling my heightened senses at the same time to cut through the dark, fixing my eyes on Amber Moon where she stood frozen, looking like someone who had just fully registered what they had done.‘With the number of times you call my name,’ his reply came instantly, ‘I would be offended if you don’t name your firstborn son after me.’I ignored that. ‘What happened to the lights?’‘They went out.’‘I can see they went out,’ I snapped. ‘Why?’‘I don’t know, Axel,’ He shot back, and even through the link his tone had an edge to it,

Chapter Thirty Nine: Are You a Virgin, Princess?

~Amber’s POV~ I had no idea why it came to me. Even less of an idea why it arrived laced with jealousy. Even lesser why I turned it into a rule and put it out into the open air between us.But it was out there, and there was no taking it back.It had changed something, shifted the atmosphere in the room in a way that had nothing to do with the storm outside, and it hadn’t lifted through the silence that followed, hadn’t lifted when I eventually peeled myself away to shower and changed into something looser and more comfortable, hadn’t lifted when he did the same. It just sat there over our heads like its own separate cloud, heavier somehow than the one currently emptying itself outside.The rain was coming down properly now. Not the polite kind — the kind that meant business, sheets of it hitting the makeshift barrier over the window in rhythmic waves, drumming against the roof, filling every corner of the small room with that thick, heavy sound that usually made people feel coco

Chapter Forty One: Nobody Warned Him About the Kitchen

~Axel POV~ It was simple.I was bored, I knew sleep wasn’t coming, and the very well-documented asshole part of me that I had never particularly tried to hide had decided to take the wheel.And I might have taken the outrageous expression that had shot across her face after I asked the question as a cue to stop but I was so thoroughly entertained that I pushed forward instead.“It wasn’t a rhetorical question, Prin—”The slap landed before I finished the word.The shock of it wiped everything else out for a full second — the sound, the sting spreading across my cheek, the sheer fact that she had done it and before I could snap back to myself her voice cut in, cold in a way that was completely different from her usual anger. Quieter. Harder.“Don’t you dare ever disrespect me like that again.”Then she was off the bed, across the room, and the door slammed behind her hard enough to rattle the frame.The room went very still.My cheek stung. Ash let out a low, disapproving growl some

Chapter Forty Two: The Aftermath Was Better Than the Drama

~Amber’s POV~ This was the part in movies where someone went… “Awkwarddddddd” with a well-deserved drag of the words.I was permitted to laugh, right?I had no idea who I was asking that question, but if I did, maybe they would tell me that I was not a bad person for feeling so utterly satisfied.A satisfaction that hadn’t left since I had seen a scene that would scar me for life and Axel had all but shoved me away from that kitchen doorway.Which made me simply return to the room, and even though he hadn’t come back after that, had only sent a message through the psych link the next morning to get dressed with a weather so clear it couldn’t be imagined it had rained and then get in the car that was already waiting for me, that had then brought me to the plane, where the feeling of déjà vu hit me hard because I was sitting in the exact same spot, and I knew that it was all happening as thoughts spiraling in my head but I should really take a breather, and so I did…I sucked in a deep

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