CHAD’S POVIt took a lot for Amber to finally fall asleep and I knew that she was very worried about the fact that she had ingested Marcus’ blood. I had never met the bastard but from what Amber told me it seemed that the guy was a piece of work and difficult to deal with. At first, I hadn’t really made a big deal of what she had told me because I just didn’t think that it was possible for her to suddenly develop cravings for blood simply because she had a taste of Marcus’s blood but the more I thought about it the more I saw that as a possibility. It was my job to protect Amber as my mate but I wouldnt even know how to protect her if she turned into a vampire and started tearing the royal city apart. I had to find a way to put a stop to that before it even happened. It was better to have a plan in place rather than just sitting and waiting for things to fall apart.When I woke up the following morning I left Amber sleeping because I imagined that she was exhausted from all the activi
AMBER’S POV I woke up feeling a lot better than I had been feeling the previous day, and I was relieved to see that Chad wasn’t in bed anymore. I was worried about what his state of mind would be after what I shared with him last night. I noticed that after I told him what was worrying me, he tossed and turned the whole night. That didn’t make me feel any better because I couldn’t stop wondering what he was dreaming about, as he dreaming about me fighting him? Or was he dreaming about me killing everyone in the royal city all because I was craving blood? I didn't want to wreak havoc in Chad's palace and I didn't want him to think that violence against his subjects was my choice of gratitude. but I feared that I would soon lose control because the cravings were going to take control of my body one way or the other.After I finished bathing I headed to the kitchen to see if I could get something to eat, I made sure to wait until the kitchen was empty and everyone had had their breakfas
CHAD’S POV“Don't get me wrong AMber, I want you to do this so that you can have peace but I just don’t think it's a good idea” I said why couldn’t she just understand that I couldn’t just stand by and let her walk right into a trap.“Why don’t you think it a good idea Chad?” she demanded“Because it might be a trap,” I said feeling silly right after I said that“Everyone who wanted me dead in that coven is dead and no one is asking that I go back there. I want to go there myself” she said and it, looked like she was close to tears”Come on Amber, you have to understand that I am only refusing because I am concerned about you, I don’t want anything to happen to you” I siad“I can take care of myself, I am not a baby” she snapped“Fine, you can go. But you can't go on your own”
AMBER’S POVI was relieved that Chad had finally agreed and allowed me to go and visit the coven, they were all that I could think of and I just worried about their safety. I couldn’t even wait to get to them and the driver that I was with seemed to be taking his time on the road. It was as if he had also been dying to get out of the palace and this was a perfect opportunity to get some fresh air he didn’t seem to realize or understand that this wasn’t a trip for leisure for me.After what felt like years, we finally arrived at the coven and the pace was in shambles. I didn’t even understand why anyone would want to attack these vampires because ninety percent of them were literally children. There was literally nothing that anyone could gain from attacking them and that was why I was I was so puzzled.“What the hell happened here?” I asked as I tried to navigate through the piles
CHAD’S POV I was getting very agitated by the fact that Amber still hadn’t returned from her trip to the vampire territory. My mind was going through the worst-case scenarios, and I was going crazy over all the horrible things that could have happened to her. I couldn’t bear the thought of losing my mate again. The worst part was that I couldn’t even get in touch with the guard that was supposed to be watching her. He was the only one who had any idea as to what was happening with her, he was supposed to be with her everywhere she went, and although that was supposed to keep me calm, at the present moment it was driving me crazy. If I couldn’t even reach him when I wanted to know where they were, then he was useless to me. “You look stressed,” Jeff said as he walked into my office, he was the one who suggested that I allow her to go and visit them and look at were taking advice from him had landed me. “I am stressed and it's all thanks to you” I snapped”Me?” he asked pointing at
AMBER’S POVI knew that Chad wouldn’t like my idea of how we could help the vampires that were left behind in the coven but I had to try to convince him to do something. Even if I decided to protect them myself there was little that I could do to stop the attacks from happening and as long as I stayed in the palace, I had no way of protecting them. I decided that I would ask him to stop the war and the fighting as soon as I got home because I knew there was no way that he would let me stay in the vampire coven, especially after I had told him about my blood cravings.However, the reaction that I had gotten from him after I asked him to end the war wasn’t what I had expected from him. He had acted like he couldn’t understand why I would ask this of him, as if I was asking him to do the impossible for me but I wasn't. I knew that if anyone could help the vampires it was him as long as he was willing to help.“So what do you say?” I asked him and he shrugged" It's not my war to end,” he
Although I was still bothered by what had happened the previous day, I decided that I wasn't going to dwell on it any longer. I decided to even ignore the fact that Amber came back looking and acting like she was high on something and I brushed it off as being caused by the fact that she was just happy and excited that she had finally seen the vampiresI decided that there were far much more important things to worry about rather than obsessing over what Amber had been up to at the vampire coven. However, what worried me the most was the fact that she was doing these ups and downs while our mating ritual was still not done. The vampires were not the only threat that I worried about, I was worried about the wolves that were looking to use her to get to me, and the fact that we had not done our mating ritual left her open to that. Amber and I hadn't been speaking about the mating ritual for a while and thought it was time for us to do that. We had put it off for too long and frankly I
AMBER’S POV I couldn’t believe what Chad was telling me right now, how could he think planning our mating ritual without telling me was okay? How could he think I would just agree to everything that he had just told me with no questions or objections? It wasn't that I didn’t want us to finish the mating ritual because I did, it was the fact that he had acted like I had no voice in this relationship. This made me wonder if this was the life he was preparing me for. Was he planning to think for me the minute we finished our mating ritual? Did being his mate mean that I would soon lose the right to use my own brain? Or did he simply think that I didn't know what was best for myself? What made me even angrier was the fact that he had walked in here and just announced that today was the day of our mating ritual as if it was nothing, as if it was just another event planned in his calendar. Did he really have no respect for my opinion on this matter? I wanted to understand what made him thi
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