The Ember In The Dark novel Chapter 4

I woke up in the nurse's office. My head felt like it was splitting open. I had the worst migraine of my life.

'Dear Goddess. I thought I would never get to come out.' A voice in my head echoed.

'What the fuck?'

Suddenly an image of a light gray wolf, with a large patch of white over it's right eye came to the front of my mind. The wolf had one blue eye and one gold.

'That's one way of greeting your wolf.' She laughed. 'It's been so hard not being able to talk to you. I've been with you all this time, Ember. I'm sorry I couldn't come out till you found our mate.' She explained.

I couldn't believe my mind right now. Was this real? Had my wolf really been lying dormant all this time? I'm not just human? Tears started to pool in my eyes. I was so happy.

"Ember are you okay?" Toni's voice brought me back to reality. I quickly wiped my tears away. I didn't want him to see that.

"Yeah I'm fine. What happened?" I asked him.

"Well Reep came forward and called you our mate and then you just passed out." He gave me a smirk that swirled the butterflies in my stomach.

I remembered it all now. That horrible ringing in my head. That's what is causing my massive headache.

'Sorry that was me breaking through the barrier. It weakened when our mate found us, giving me a way to come through. My name's Talia.' She told me.

'What barrier?' I asked her, confused.

'The one created for you. To keep you safe from dark magic. I'll explain more later. Breaking free has tired me, so I need to rest.' She disappeared then, before I could say anything else.

My already sharp senses felt even more enhanced now. The smell of mint and wet earth hit me strongly. It was absolutely intoxicating. I sniffed around the air trying to find where the smell was coming from. I found myself sniffing Toni.

"Why do you smell so nice?" I asked him, stupidly. That's such an embarrassing question. I slapped my forehead. "Ignore me. I'm obviously not in my right mind." I shook my head.

"I don't think I could ignore you even if I wanted to." Toni chuckled. "I smell nice to you because I'm your mate Ember. You smell so intoxicating to me too." He explained, I looked at him through the cracks of my fingers.

"I do?" I asked him.

"Yes, very much so." He smiled at me.

He grabbed my wrist pulling it down from my face. His touch had me feeling dizzy all over again. I crave his hands on me more than I would like to admit.

'Ash! I need you. I'm in the nurse's office.' I called him.

I can't be alone with Toni right now. I don't know him or my wolf that well. I know you're supposed to trust your wolf, but I am not sure I do, at least not yet.

'What the fuck? What happened?' Ash's voice was full of worry.

'I'll tell you when you get here.'

'I'm glad I have a free period this hour.' He mumbled, but I could tell he was making his way here.

"Are you sure you're okay?" Toni's eyes studied me as he asked.

"Yeah, you should go back to class. Ash is on his way now." I told him. Toni scrunched his eyebrows at me.