Ember (POV)
I woke up late, it was early afternoon when I finally got out of bed. I would have slept later if Victor hadn't woken me up to feed with him. I was not in a good mood. I was trying not to take it out on him. I didn't want to fight the day of our mating ceremony. It wasn't his fault Xavier got taken. I just missed him. I was so worried.
I didn't like that Dominick had him. My mates kept telling me he was fine, and we would get him back. But what if he wasn't fine? What if Dominick was hurting him, and we didn't know it because he was wearing his bracelet? Was he infected with dragon poison? Was he able to heal himself? Did he heal when we did? There were so many unknowns with the mate bond it was hard to tell what we could do. What if we were too far away from each other? Was
