AMBER’S POVI didn’t understand why it was so hard for Chad to understand that I just didn’t want to see or speak to him. There was nothing that he could say to me that could make me forget what he had done and how he had tricked me into sleeping with him. That was what I was calling it now because I couldn’t find any other explanation as to why he would bring my father here a day after sleeping with me. He knew what he was doing and he knew what he was trying to achieve. He tried to play me for a fool and he even almost succeeded but I was done being his little idiot.On the other hand, I was getting a little tired of being cooped up in this room all day all because I didn’t want my path to cross with his. I had to go out for some fresh air otherwise I was just going to lose my mind while in this room. I decided to bathe and just go to the garden and relax. The garden was the only relaxing place in this palace and I had also noticed that it was the only place that Chad didn’t frequen
CHAD’S POV I had gone to the pack training grounds because I felt that I needed to spend some time outdoors, I also wanted to do physical activity that wasn’t lifting weights. I had been spending a lot of my time in the office and Jeff kept encouraging me to do something else but I was never up to it. However, when he mentioned that he had a new group to train today I was kind of interested in that. I just wanted to get back in the action once more. I hadn’t been doing much training ever since I took over the throne but I felt that I needed to get involved in the training as a way for me to get my mind off things. To my surprise today was also the day that Amber had decided to also go out of the room and get some fresh air. This was just my luck, I hadnt seen Amber in a very long time, and seeing her after such a long time was all very refreshing to me. She looked so beautiful, the lack of sunshine had made her skin a little pale but she still looked beautiful either way she looked l
AMBER’S POV After my infuriating exchange with Chad, I stormed back to my room. I should have never listened to Natasha, for all I knew she had convinced me to go to the training grounds because her king had asked her to. Chad was probably the one who told her to come and get me so that he could abuse me some more. If I had gone to the garden as I had initially planned to I would have never met with him and he wouldnt have ruined my day by trying to outsmart me. I ran to the room and locked myself inside, as much as I didn't want to think about Chad, I couldn't stop thinking about him. I couldn’t stop obsessing over the way he had touched me when we met at the grounds, the way he held me and gently brushed his lips on mine. he didn't care that we were being watched by others, it was as if it was just he and I. I thought that not seeing him in a while was going to help me get over him and maybe he would lose his hold on me but I was obviously wrong. He seemed confident that I would
CHAD’S POV So Amber was officially mine and mine alone, she already was mine and that was thanks to the mate bond but the fact that she had allowed me to mark her meant that she had finally come to a point of accepting me her. Marking her was like putting an ownership stamp on her and everyone else would know where she belonged no matter where she went. Even if she tried to run away from me if we had a fight I knew that she would be returned to me because she would easily be identified as my mate and as the queen. Unlike a marking from a regular wolf, Amber’s mark from me was very different and it was almost like a royal seal, the mark itself was like a tattoo of my wolf and that mark was going to change her wolf’s appearance also, however, this wasn’t something that I was going to share with her because I still didn’t trust that she wouldnt try to escape me if she got the chance and the opportunity to. All I had ever wanted ever since I met Amber was to have her in my arms the way
AMBER’S POV Now that Chad had opened up to me I kind of felt obliged to open up to him too and tell him everything that I hadn't told him about my parents. Everything that I hadn't told him bout the treatment that my mother and I suffered in the hands of my father. I wasn’t planning to share with him everything that had happened and where I eneded up but I knew the question was going to come. I had become very bad at lying to him and even hiding my thoughts from him so I knew that he probably knew why I was here. He had probably already overhead my thoughts as I obsessed over what to do.“I also think I should tell you everything that my father did to me and my mother,” I said“You don’t have to do that, I mean you don’t have to do anything that you are not comfortable with” he said”No I have to tell you everything,” I said as I came to the decision that I did have to tell him everything that I had been trouygh and where I had run away to.“Okay, then tell me” I said and she got off
CAIN’S POV3Even if my father refused to admit it, he knew that Amber had been gone longer than he had anticipated her to be. I missed her terribly and I didn’t even know what to do with myself in her absence. I had even stopped going for training with the pack hunters because that also reminded me of her. I couldn’t stand seeing my father so I had resorted to avoiding being with him altogether. I just wanted to be left alone all the time and I didn’t want to hear him making excuses. I was now convinced that he had sent her away on purpose and he didn't think that she would ever come back. My theory for that was further proved by the fact that he didn’t seem bothered by the fact that she still hadn't returned home.I was spending more and more time in her room, as a matter of fact, I had practically moved into her room. Although the room had stopped smelling like her and started smelling more like me I still felt very close to her in her room. I had made it a point that I didn't move
CHAD’S POV I was glad that I had finally managed to get Amber to open up to me but at the same time, my conversation with her had left me infuriated. I hadn't expected the extent of the abuse that she was subjected to by her father but the fact that it was not only caught me off guard but angered me at the same time. I had been trying to figure out how best to deal with this without turning myself into a complete animal and the only thing that I could think of was that I had to take care of this man. If he hated Amber and her mother as much as Amber said he did then she was in danger of him coming after her again and had to make sure that didn’t happen. I had called Alpha Robert here not only to hear his side of the story but also because I wanted him to know that Amber was now under my protection but now I realized that there could be no limit to what a man like him could do. He was probably planning his next move wherever he was and the fact that he knew that Amber was with me gav
CAIN’S POV I hesitated before sharing my findings with my father and the elders but I knew that I had to tell them, there was just no way for me to avoid coming clean to them. I also didn’t feel like I owed anything to Amber because she had lied to me and I thought we were close, I felt very betrayed by her. However, I knew that even if I hadn’t told them about Amber they would soon find out on their own because they were already very suspicious of her. They were just not going to believe me if I told them that I had found nothing. They were also going to send someone in who would search that room and find things that I hadn’t found, the last thing I wanted was to be accused of taking the side of an impostor.My father had been very convinced that there had to be something that would reveal who Amber really was and he thought that he had to have left something here that would give them the answers that they needed. However, I still wanted to know about the spy that they had at the pa
AMBER’S POV That was the most beautiful sleep that I had ever had I don’t think that I had ever slept like that in my life and although my body was still tired, I felt kind of well rested and I was ready to take on the new day. When I woke up, Chad was sleeping on the couch with the baby on his bare chest and they were both sleeping. I could already see that this baby was going to be a daddy’s girl and I already knew that I would have a problem dealing with that because item that I would never have enough time with any of them. I would have to fight Chad to spend time with her and I would have to fight her to spend time with him. I realized that I was in a lose-lose situation and that ithis was just the way my life was going to be. However, I would be lying if I said that I want happy with the fact that this baby was going to get a lot more love than I had ever received in my life. It was bios that Chad was going to be a better father than my father had ever been to me. For a long ti
CHAD’S POV Amber had tried to act like she wasn’t in that much pain but I knew that she was lying. The pain that she was feeling was written all over her face and there was no faking it. I understood that she didn’t want to disturb her friend as she spent tie with her mate but at this point, Iyana was the only person that I could trust when it came to Amber’s health. I no longer trusted my doctor because he had shown me that he was way out of his depth when it came to dealing with Amber’s head; issue but this wasn’t a health issue, this was a baby that was about to be born and it was as if the moon goddess was preparing for this when she gave Iyana to Jeff “Isn't it too early for this?” I asked Amber and she looked like she was just about ready to punch me. ” just get help Chad” she snapped as she grabbed onto the sheets and she just looked like she was in more pain than she had ever been on. Even back then when she had been in pain when she was sick the pain hadn't been this bad.
AMBER’S POV I was really touched by the way that Chad had stood up for me, I had been so afraid that I would be rejected by his subjects and unfortunately for me my fears had come to life and I was rejected for what I was and for my past with my father. However Chad made it clear to me that he wasn’t done with me yet, he told me that he still had a surprise in store for me. He called all the alphas to meet him after the part because he had an announcement to make, an announcement that I had no knowledge of like I literally didn’t know what he wanted to say to them. I tried asking him what he wanted to say and in the beginning, he didn’t want to tell me but he ended up telling me because I wouldn’t let it go. I honestly didn’t think that there was anything else that he could do for me that would top what he had already done. I knew very well that I was the only reason he had ended the war between vampire and wolf during the party and I just didn’t want him to keep doing things that c
AMBER’S POVI honestly didn’t feel comfortable with what Chad had suggested, it wasn’t even something that he was suggesting but it felt like was just letting me know what he expected of me. I knew that I didn’t have a choice but to attend this party especially because it was being thrown on my behalf and it was being done for me. I didn’t even think it was necessary because the royal citizens already knew me, it didn’t matter if the alphas didn’t know me because as far as I was concerned I was never going to be having any dealings with them. But then again, I had to recognize that if they didn’t know me that would also mean some kind of danger for me because then I could get attacked out there without them knowing who I was. I had to do this whether I liked it or not.I hadn’t liked the idea of throwing a party in my honor from the moment that Chad suggested it but I had gone with the plan because I wanted him to be happy, I realized that I didn’t have much of a choice but to just a
CHAD’S POV Now that all the loose ends had been tied I could breathe a little easier, the girl who had tried to end my mate was dead and I could rest better knowing that she was safe. Amber was now back to herself and everything was finally going well for us. For a minute there I had started thinking that maybe it was best if I let her go, I knew that letting her go wouldn’t give me any more peace than staying with her would. I had been miserable for such a long time I had forgotten what it felt like to be happy I had even forgotten what it felt like to make love to my mate. I couldn’t wait for us to get back to our usual routine. I really hoped that Amber had learned something from this thing that we had just dealt with. I hoped that she learned that she couldn’t just trust anyone so easily, especially vampires. They had proven to her and to me that they couldn’t be trusted countless times and I really didn’t want to be dealing with something like this ever again. I actually just wa
AMBER’S POVIyana had left me with some more portions that I was supposed to drink for the next couple of days, I honestly didn’t see any reason for me to drink them because I was already feeling fine but I knew that it was in my best interest to go with what she told me rather than what I was feeling. I was feeling so much better not to the extent that I could even take walked to the garden. I had grown so tired of staying in the house and a part of me witches I could just stay in the garden for a little while so that I could make up for all the time that I had lost while I was sick.While Chad was gone I decided to g to the garden and watch the sun as it set, this had grown to be my favorite activity since I settled here but I had lost it because I was sick. I was now trying to go back to my usual activities and I was trying to adjust to the new life that I now had. The fact that I was pregnant meant that I had to change a lot of things about my life. There were some things that I c
CHAD’S POV I couldn't believe what I was hearing from the witch that had come to help us. I knew that the blood that had been given t Amber was the cause of all of this but I could never have guessed that the blood was poisoned. I mean, we all thought that it was obvious that she was suffering from withdrawal symptoms, but I could see that it seemed like there was something more to it. Something that even my own doctor couldn’t see, not that I could blame him for not seeing it, but he had been as puzzled about this as I had been and now everything was starting to make sense. There was no way that I was going to just take this lying down, someone had to pay for this and I was about to make sure that I found whoever did this. They all had to pay for what they had done to my mate and I was going to make sure that I made them all pay. I was going to ignore the fact that my mate had ties to them in the same way that they had forgotten that the vampire that they had been trying to poison an
AMBER’S POV I had been in excruciating pain ever since I woke up from what felt like a coma. I woke up with a pounding headache that was probably caused by whatever the doctor had given me. When I woke up, Chad wasn’t by my side, so I just stared at the ceiling and contemplated what my life had become. I had been through so much in the past weeks and I had even forgotten what it felt like to be feeling gone, it was as if I was now used to being in pain. My body was used to relying on medicine to cope and I wondered if I would ever be normal again. It seemed that everything that Chad and Jeff had tried to help me had failed and I was really at the point of giving up. At this point, I was just overwhelmed with feelings of negativity and, as much as I knew that being negative wasn’t going to help me in any way, I couldn’t help myself. I couldn’t even see myself getting out of this situation, no matter how positive I tried to be. When I woke up, I wasn’t in as much pain as I had been in
CHAD’S POV “Look man, I know that you are very stressed out and worried about your mate but you can't just make impulsive decisions,” Jeff said”Didn’t you hear what the doctor said?” I asked him pointing at the doctor who was now sitting on the bed in silence “he said she won't make it” ”No I didn’t say that, I simply said that her body was shutting down,” he said as if there was any difference between him saying that Amber’s body was shutting down and him saying that she was going to die. The inevitable thing that would follow her body shutting down was the fact that she would soon die. I didn’t see the point of him trying to give me false hope when he knew very well that there was a huge chance that my mate wasn’t going to live through this. “Well is there anything else that you can do?” I asked him even though I already knew the answer to my question “There isn't much that I can do because she refuses to take any form of medication,” he said “That is why I am saying that you