Ember woke up sweating like crazy. She looked at her right side and she noticed that Axle was still sleeping. She looked at the clock on the wall and she noticed that it was only 2am, it was still dark outside. It was her nightmare again. It kept coming back over and over again. The last time she had that dream was when she was ten years old and for those nightmares to come back now meant something. She quietly got up from the bed because she did not want to wake Axle up. She walked towards the small fridge that was at the corner of the room near the door. She opened it and she took out a bottle of water and she drank half of the water and then she put the bottle back in the fridge. She then walked to the balcony to get some fresh air and maybe try to forget about the bad dream.She looked up at the sky that was filled with stars. She closed her eyes and then she took a deep breath. The cold breeze made her body shiver, she was only wearing a short-sleeved knee length night dress. "B
The piercing sound of the alarm clock brought Ember back from the dead of sleep. She groaned checking the time on the clock and it was 6:30am. That's the time that she was supposed to wake up every single day. She was still trying to get used to it. She turned and she saw Axle who was still fast asleep. He looked so peaceful and angelic. His hair was all over his face. Ember extended her hand to remove the hair on his face but before she could do it, Axle slowly opened his eyes. "Morning."He said. Looking at her. "Morning."She replied. Axle stretched his hands and then he sat up leaning on the headboard with his back. He sighed looking up at the ceiling. "Hey are you mad at me?"He asked. "No, why do you ask?"She asked. "About last night. I shouldn't have reacted the way I did."He said. "Why did you react the way that you did?"She asked. "I don't want to have kids."He said. Ember sat up and she looked at him. That was a shock because that was not what he had told her before they
Ember walked down the hallway quietly. Her heart was racing and her palms were sweating. She felt like she was going to collapse on the ground. She stopped in front of the door that led to Axle's parents' bedroom.They had called her and told her that they wanted to see her, from the sound of their voices Ember could tell that it was nothing good. She took a deep breath and she knocked on the door. She then heard them saying 'come in'. She opened the door and there she saw Axle's parents who were seated in the room. They watched her as she walked in. The looks that they were giving her made her body tremble in fear."Sit down."Payton said, pointing at the chair that was across the room. Ember nodded her head and she went there and she sat down on the chair. "Ember I am sure that you are wondering why we called you here."John said, Ember nodded her head. Payton stood up and she walked towards the nightstand, she opened the drawer and she took out some papers that were stapled together
Ember sat down on the kitchen chair, her heart was racing as she was about to open the file. It's like there was a voice in her head that was telling her not to open the file but her body just moved on its own. She opened the file and she started reading it.It said that Axle and his twin brother were born with the same disease that caused them to not be like any other normal child. Their heart rate was faster than normal, their bodies would be a lot colder sometimeswhich forced them to stay in the hospital until they were four years old. They were discharged because they looked like they were getting better, but it got worse when they were in kindergarten so their parents looked for a doctor who could treat them and they found one but he lived outside of the country so they had to take them there.As soon as they arrived at that country they were both taken to the doctor but Axle's twin brother died before the treatment even started. That made their parents lose hope, they thought t
Ember sat in her room, tears were streaming down her face uncontrollably. Her mind was flooded with a lot of questions that she knew she had no answers to. She felt like she was losing breath, everything seemed to be happening so fast for her. The man that she married in the name of love turned out to be a liar. She blamed herself for being stupid and blind, for trusting a stranger. A man that she had never met before. Maybe if she had said no to his proposal she wouldn't be sitting here crying. Maybe if she had just gone back to her apartment after Dean dumped her, she wouldn't have gone to that party and she wouldn't have met Axle. She could have seen it at first, because Axle just seemed to come at the perfect time.She saw him as her knight in shining armour, he appeared at the moment when she needed someone to be by her side, she knew that a man as perfect as him was out of the ordinary but she just ignored it, she even ignored the little voice in her head that was telling her t
Ember, how are you feeling?"Elias asked as he sat down on the bed next to Ember. "I don't know how I am feeling or how am I supposed to feel. I just don't, I have lied to for months. I can't believe I actually fell for his lies. Elias did you know about all this?"She asked."Well to be honest, yes. But I didn't like the idea so I tried talking to him after I found out that he had proposed to you but well you know Axle, he's stubborn, he only does what he thinks he's right."He said."But why did he have to lie to me, couldn't he have just told me the truth in the first place instead of just lying to me like that. I was just stupid, who in their right mind would agree to a proposal from a stranger?"She asked. It felt more like she was asking herself and not Elias."Hey it's not your fault. It's all his fault for approaching you for the wrong reasons. You don't deserve this, you deserve better."He said. "So m what are you going to do now, stay or…"He asked."I don't know but I don't thi
Axle stood in his office looking at the busy window through his big window. His mind was flooded with thoughts he did not want to think about at all but he just couldn't help it. He kept asking himself questions that he thought he didn't know the answers to but he did. The cup of coffee that he was holding in his hand was starting to get cold, he had not even drank half of it because he was not even focused on drinking it. He knew that he was most probably not going to get a cold coffee so he just put the glass on his office table.Just then he heard a light knock on his door and then he said."Come in."He said it loud enough for the person to hear. The door opened and Karen walked in with a smile on her face. She sure was feeling snug about what she had done. "What are you doing here?"He asked. He was in no mood of talking to her or even seeing her after what she had done. To him she was the guilty one, not him. He just did not want to blame himself. "Am I not allowed to come here? I
Axle sat in his car looking at the house that was in front of him. He tightened his grip on the steering wheel. His eyes were filled with nothing but anger and fear. For the first time ever in his life he had felt fearing him. He felt like slamming his head on the steering wheel just thinking about everything that was happening. Ember had stopped talking to him and she refused to sleep in the same room with him, which was understandable but not to Axle.He still didn't see a reason for her to ignore him, to him she would have already forgave him by now and just moved on like nothing happened at all, to him she was just being dramatic. He checked the time on his wrist watch and he saw that it was 5:36pm. He smiled a little, Dr Lee was going to be back any moment now. Be sure to look out for his car because it was going to pull in at any moment now.After a few minutes a black jeep pulled into the house that he had been looking at for the past hour. And he saw Dr Lee coming out of his c