Emerson’s POV
Sh*t! War?! A war that neither of us signed up for all because of some feud over 200 years ago. The only way to end it was for one her kind to kill the last primordial vampire. What if she can’t defeat him and my mate ends up dead. I don’t ever want to live without her and I promised to protect her but I can’t, I can’t protect her from this. As an Alpha I feel weak and useless at the moment and it’s bringing on a fit of rage that frightens me. Its too soon for all of this I just found her and now all of the sudden there’s this great threat that could possibly take her from me. Shadow and I are both furious at the thought of Ashley no longer being with us. My anger is out of control at this point as I break the coffee cup in my hand and it shatters.
“Emerson are you ok,” my
