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The Ember In The Dark Ch. 77
Dex's P.O.V.I watched as Ember fell to her knees. Her tears were dripping rapidly down from her cheeks, hitting the floor beneath her. My heart was shattering for her. How could Toni do this to her? He is so possessive and protective of her. How could he just cheat on her like that? How could he throw Ember to the side? If she were mine, I could never cheat on her. She's too damn perfect. She's an angel sent from above. Yet here she sits broken by that piece of shit Toni. God I could just kill him for causing her this much pain. "Do you want me to take the pain away?" I crouched down in front of her. I could at least do that for her. Surprisingly, she shook her head no."I need to remember this pain so I don't ever go back to him." She explained through her sobs. She was being strong, but it was breaking me. I picked her up and sat her beside me on the bed. I wrapped the comforter around her, not wanting her to catch a cold in a damp towel. I took her towel off under the comforter
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Ember's P.O.V.Once I knew Toni and Dex were gone I turned my wrath back to Nina. She controlled Toni into sleeping with her. She had me believing that he cheated just to play with us. To keep this tension building between Dex and us. She did this to entertain herself. My body felt on fire with rage. I have never felt such anger before. "You're going to give me what I came for now and then we are leaving." I growled at her. "That's not the deal." She smirked at me. "Too fucking bad. It is now." I snapped. "That's not how this works." She was so sure she held all the power here. If she only knew how wrong she was. I entered her mind. I will beat her to a pulp here. I don't need to start a war by giving her subordinates evidence that I hurt their queen. Her mind was dark, a black void with a small girl in the center. She had white hair and golden eyes. She was small and crying. This was not what I expected. "Hello?" I called the small girl. She turned frightened. "Who are you?"
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I opened the bedroom to find Toni right behind it. Dex was sulking on the couch. He seemed depressed and it tugged at my heart to see him that way. Before I could ask him what was wrong, Toni pulled me into his arm. I froze for just a moment before letting myself relax into his hold. He wasn't in control when he slept with Nina. He didn't even know about it. No wonder he was so confused about it last night. It wasn't an act, he really didn't know. I would be a hypocrite if I can't forgive him after what's happened with Dex and I. "Well, do we need to flee? Did you start a war?" Dex mused from the couch. I pulled back from Toni's embrace. I met Dex's sad eyes with a sad smile. He had helped me last night. He had seen me in the worst pain of my life and I know it affected him. I feel a tightness in my chest when I think about it now. "No war. She's still alive, and I got this." I held both glass bottles up. "Turns out she was being inhibited by a low level demon. I was going to kick
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We finally made it back to the kingdom. I was going to send Dex home, but he was looking around the kingdom with such curiosity. I couldn't send him back when I saw his amazement. It was really adorable, like a child. "Come on, we need to give these to my mom." I held up the siren song and the queen's fairy dust. "Let's not mention the aftermath of the siren song, okay?" I didn't feel like getting in trouble. I also didn't feel like getting an hour-long lecture. I didn't want mom trying to come up with fixes either or having to worry any more than she already has to. "Why? She might be able to find a way to remove the siren mark." Toni seemed upset that I didn't want to tell her. "She doesn't need to worry about that right now. I'll tell her after we get Ash back." I cupped his face in my hand, comfortingly. I didn't want him to think that I was choosing to keep the mark. I could see from the corner of my eye that Dex's head fell slightly. Was he sad? I'll get rid of the mark as
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The fairy dust had me feeling odd for the past hour. I had put some magic in it, like mom said. I had Toni blow some on me and then I blew some on him. I figure we would both need it. Nothing had seemed to happen though. My skin has just felt odd and prickly since. I am not sure what I was expecting to happen, but I guess I just assumed everything would be fine. Nothing feels different though. My heart still hurts, it still feels betrayed. Can fairy dust not fix this? "Anything?" Toni asked again. He's desperate for this to work too. I shook my head, causing him to sigh and hang his head. "I'm so sorry, Ember." He was hurting just like me. He doesn't even remember any of it, but he knows it hurt me. He knows that I am having a hard time letting it go, and it's killing him. I wish I could convince my heart to forgive and forget it all. It really wasn't his fault. "I'm sorry too. I know it wasn't you. I know you were being controlled. It just hurt so much." I let out a long breath.
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Toni and I had gotten dressed and laid in my bed cuddled together. I passed out quickly, my head resting on his chest. I felt warm and whole again, but utterly exhausted. I felt like I could finally rest, and so I did. I am not sure what time it was when I felt my shoulder being shaken awake. I opened my eyes to find Toni still asleep under me. I turned to see whose hands were on my shoulder. Dex held a finger against his lips, telling me to keep quiet. He motioned his head for me to follow. I very begrudgingly got off the bed, and the warmth of Toni. I was careful not to wake him. I followed Dex out of the room into the hall. "I think you forgot something." Dex whispered pointing, not very obviously, behind him. I furrowed my brows until I noticed Eric down the hall. Seems I'm still a shit sister. "Oh my God!" I whispered. "I can't believe I fell asleep." Dex grabbed my hand, sending a tingle through me. "Don't worry. I told him you probably just passed out. He laughed saying i
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Eric and I played for a while longer before my phone dinged again. Dex: She's here. Hurry down. Dex: She's a cougar. Save me!I couldn't help but laugh out loud at the last text, causing Toni to arch a brow at me suspiciously. I just shook my head at him, telling him it's nothing. "You ready? Kaitlyn is here." I finally spoke. Toni got up from his secluded spot. He never once made an effort to play or speak to Eric. It hurt that he didn't. I don't think he realizes how much my brothers mean to me sometimes. "Yeah, let's go." He shook his bottom off as he spoke. "I love you, bud. I gotta get going. I'm going to bring Ash back to us. I promise." I gave Eric a big hug before leaving his room. Toni and I walked silently down the hall. I didn't hold his hand. I'm a little upset at him for the way he acted with Eric. Toni's been changing a lot here lately and I don't like it. Not one bit."Ember, I think you need to distance yourself from Dex. He's getting too involved with your fami
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"I've called all of our friends. No one has seen him." Eryn let us know. "I've called around to other packs and none of them have seen or heard of a new wolf in their territories. They'll keep an eye out for him though." Charles added, placing his large hand on mom's baby bump. "I've called all my contacts and all favors that are due. He was in New York a few days ago, but he checked out already. He was with a group of girls, but none of them said where they were going next." Dad could always be trusted to find out information. He had the largest network of people. All kinds of people, all kinds of species. "That's a start. He always said he wanted to see New York one day." Mom nodded her head. She was thinking hard, biting on the side of her thumb. "How do we find him now? Is there a location spell or something?" I looked at Kaitlyn when I said that. "I tried. He's blocking his presence and keeping himself hidden. Your brother has a lot of magic. A lot of strong magic that I can
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