"hell no." he said, dropping to the ground, so that we sat side by side, "I'm not feeling bad, so you don't have to feel bad.""Exactly," I said and laid my head on his shoulder.PARIS's POVI decided to go back to the cabin where I had caught the scent of the kidnapped attacker. Because as much as
EMBER's POV"I was thinking about something while I was in the shower," Jean said over breakfast, and I froze, before slowly reaching for some jam. Jean in the shower only made me think of one thing and I was terrified about the dimensions my thoughts were starting to take where Jean was considered.
"or perhaps she's always had all those dark parts and she is finally tapping into it.""Perhaps. "I said and heaved out a breath,"So you don’t think his sister has something to do with this?""Christina?" I asked, and he nodded, "she might be helping her. Must have linked her up with the right secu
Paris's Pov"did you really think you would never be found? Or did you expect that I would have cooled off and never tried to find you?"“To be very honest, I would have been more than happy to delude myself that I had put as much distance as I could possibly have between myself and you. I mean Afri
"Perhaps you are. But, one turn deserves another. However, as this is merely the beginning of your holiday, I'm willing to let you enjoy the rest of it. On the last day, you're coming home with me."She groaned in unconcealed resentment, "Let me breathe, Paris. Simply let me breathe.""maybe once j
PARIS's POV"you have become a tyrant ruler, jailing and unjailing as you, please. Who gave you such boldness?" my mother said with a sneer,"tyrant ruler? Really, mother? If you could simply put things this way. For a moment, just a moment, see Ember as your daughter. Think that, it is indeed your
"what? Why are you smiling?""Axel is such an elder brother, is all. I think I would react the same way. Especially with everything that has happened lately. I don't blame him.""I don't blame him either. But I need a little faith in me. I really can handle myself. I really can take care of myself."
Ember's POV"Still going, I see?" Axel said while I was on my way out of the door,"If you weren't my brother and I didn't know you did all that you did from a place of love and I would have actually hit a place of frustration by now.""Far be it from me to try and frustrate you. " he said smiling a
EMBER'S POV"there you are," Axel announced when he found me still on my hair, contemplating my life,"You were looking for me?""yeah. I said I'd come to watch you guys train. I stepped outside, but found the training ground empty, and wondered where you all went.""Well, we were there." I told hi
"good. Now come at me again, and this time around, use the element of surprise. I suppose we can make this lesson four."By noon, my body was different kinds of sore, and achy, and this time around, when Jean stretched out his hand toward me to help me up, I refused to take it, lest he make us go an
EMBER'S POV"Well now," I said and struggled against his hold."you're going to have to do better than that if you want to be free of me, Baby girl.""No fair, you had not even announced the beginning of the lesson." I wailed,"The same way that bear isn't always going to announce its attack. I'm s
And then I remembered and I groaned,“I forgot.” I sighed and rubbed at my eyes, before trying to sit up, “You can tell him to wait for me, I should be down soon.”I said and caught him looking at me uncertainly and I laughed,“You don’t believe that I’m up for real?”“I don’t believe you won’t go r
EMBER’s POV“They want you to wrestle a bear?” Jean asked looking just as shocked as I had felt when I heard the news and I nodded soberly,“They say it’s the only way for me to prove myself as being strong and worthy,” I said and took my seat on Jean’s couch.I had come to tell him what had befalle
EMBER's POV"wrestle a bear?" I asked in utter confusion, as I looked from my father to my brother and back to my father again, hoping one of them would tell me that it was all a joke. But they stayed looking so sober that I knew that this wasn't a joke of any sort.But they stayed, looking sober, a
EMBER's POV"He has refused a countless number of times we've shoved it up his face. What makes you think this time will be any different?" William asked, looking at me like he didn't think I was sure I knew what I was talking about.But I was sure. I mean, I had heard him correctly. And even now, I
"maybe. How are you? Were you able to get some work done today? All of that?" I asked, and he tilted his head, smiling at me,"So you want company?" he asked, his French accent going sultry, and I suddenly felt very warm. This wasn't what I had been aiming for, but I liked it very much."That would
Ember's Pov There comes a time in everyone's life when they decide that they've had enough of all of the crises they've had to deal with in life. And after that, they simply need a break.I didn't know how to get my break, but Paris had offered me one. The words he said to me when he saved me had c