LeoHe’d been drawn into conversations with other Gammas about security and protections, feeling safe in knowing that Ash would watch her with his overprotectiveness since he’d been marked.  He’d been completely ornery since she had been swooped away that morning and he knew better than to irritate his future alpha after he was kept away from her for the whole day.He would still keep an eye on her every five minutes or so.  One Gamma had gone into a heated discussion with another over the right procedure to use when attacked from multiple points and he had been forced to step in to break it up before they ruined Ember’s announcement ball.When he’d glanced around to check on Ember again, she’d been gone.  He glanced around nervously, knowing that whoever was trying to get to her was most likely going to be here.  But he didn’t spot her anywhere in the ballroom.  He excused himself and made his w

LeoHe wasn’t handling things well; he was blaming himself for not following her around everywhere like he usually does.  But if he was handling things badly, then Ash was at the point of going feral.  He had suddenly roared out his anger earlier that morning and it took them more than an hour to calm him down enough to explain that Ember had been slapped in the face.Of course, with him being marked he could feel some of her pain and a lot of her emotions, something which she could not sense with being unmarked by him.  Personally, he thought Ash was handling things amazingly under the circumstances with all things considered.  That being said, handling things amazingly with the current circumstances did not mean he was handling things well at all.His dad was barely keeping him sane with productive ways to help, also pushing Leo to do the same with keeping an eye on him.  It didn’t help with the guilt and self-loathing or t

AshHe’d been barely holding on since Ember has been kidnapped, but he was so close to losing all control and going feral when he felt her being slapped.  Somehow his father seemed to know how close he was to losing control and kept him within the palace walls with Leo babysitting him.Leo didn’t seem to be feeling much better than he was, so really it was the blind leading the blind at this point.  It helped that he was doing something to feel like he was getting closer to finding Ember, but it still felt like they were impossibly far from finding her.Right now, they were going through CCTV footage in a bid to find the car that was still MIA.  Somehow the bastard had disconnected the tracking device and he was in the wind.  He had the horrible feeling that the bastard was just two steps ahead of them every time they found something.Cassius, or Cassie as everyone called him, was currently busy going through the burner pho

EmberShe had managed to take a shower, with Nova assisting her out of the evening gown and helping with the water settings and some clothes she could wear.  Apparently the crazy wolf had already decided on her wardrobe and had filled it with “frilly nineteen fifties pinup dresses”, according to Nova’s descriptions.She was grateful that Nova was helping her, since she felt useless being blind.  She had just finished brushing her teeth after getting dressed in a nightgown.  Nova had given her the slip nightgown and told her it was the best she could do, since the others were meant to entice a male.That didn’t bode well for her future.She fumbled a little to find the right place to put the toothbrush down before she drank some water from the tap.  “Incoming!”  Lume warned a moment before the door unlocked and closed behind someone.The scent of Balor infiltrated the bathroom a m

Nova*TW: mention of physical abuse and the after effects*She could hear the beating coming through the thin walls and she flinched every time she heard his fists hit its mark.  She knew from experience that he wasn’t pulling any of his punches and the princess was going to hurt so much afterwards.She didn’t wish this life on anyone and she hoped the wolf she had sent the information to would keep his word, since she didn’t want the princess to end up like her mother had been in the dungeons when she had been brought here.  She knew he would have his sole focus on his reluctant bride to ‘train’ her, which just meant beating her into submission.But suddenly the beating stopped and Nova returned to scrubbing the floor on her hands and knees like she’d been doing before he had started beating the princess.  She winced when he slammed the bedroom door behind him, still in a rage.No