Paris's POV"Why? Why did you do that?" I asked, trying to fight the urge to panic, as I struggled to pick her up the right way. The wrong could have her fracture to become worse, and I wasn't taking my chances."I didn't mean to. I wanted to chase after you, and it just happened.""Chase after me?
While she tended to Kate inside, I paced outside, trying to understand what direction in life I was going to take. Because how, just how was I supposed to leave a woman who had no desire to be left? How was I supposed to walk away from a woman who had a vice around my neck? And who else was I bound
Paris's POVI decided to follow her scent and for some reason, it led me to several different parts of the hospital."Why Ember? Did you simply go on a tour of this place?" I asked, as finally her scent lingered in the reception making me stay awhile before I followed out the doors, and then outside
"I had almost forgotten that I had you to deal with," I said and took one more look at the scribbles on Ember's file, I closed it and dropped it back on the doctor's table.Then I made my way out of his office. I still shot a text to Jackson about covering my tracks to which he replied "Your proble
Kate's POVShe looked at me with her eyes popping, as though she was slowly losing it.I knew Christina to be somewhat emotionally volatile, and I didn’t think this prison cell was doing any good to her already declining mental health. But to say anything to her about that was simply asking her to s
PARIS'S POVIt's safe to say that I was running mad while trying to discover who the person responsible for Ember's attack was. Everywhere I turned was a dead-end. I must have underestimated the individual by leaving that prisoner without the right guards. Now look where I was at.In a bar, stewing
Moments later, done with my drink, and my desire for a different atmosphere, I placed a tip under my empty glass, and got up, and went out of the bar, pausing when I saw the one woman who could set my heart on fire.However, that fire turned to ice when I saw who she was with. No, it wasn't the mate
Paris's pov"I'd actually like to have the conversation with just you. Without the lawyer judging me.""So you can make her uncomfortable? I don't think so. If there's anything you have to say, I believe you can say it here. We both have where we need to be, and you're wasting time.""I don't have t
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