WOLF'S CULT (The Circle of four)

the ground with the sharp ring of metal on stone. Lightning strikes spat d

in the air, a sizzle of temper

ing strikes. And the rage from it spit from his fingerstips, jagged red t

cross the moon, the air and the land. lt whipped inside his blood, outside in the air,

ill he raged, and still he grieved. The moon turned fell red as blo

f it spoke of the sorcerer who stood tall on the high cliff of the Eire mountain,

o were said to be descended from Mayra, faerie queen and go

in that terrible

ed, putting his back to the tumultuous Eire mountai

ad been a woma

, her lips pink as rose petals, her skin milk white. When she spoke, her voice

out. Are you impatient, yo

what killed

lex. You are too young to understand its glories.

damn him,

ll price for eternity. The world is his now, and he takes wh

s blood is on

ughed v

blood is on your hands, and by t

ds, in my throat. As mine is in his. He is like me now, a child of nigh

your power, and your grief, and your angry. Now, on this place, l offer this gift to you. l will ma

s alpha wolf, his eyes narrowed,

e me you

hite swell of her breast rounding ripely over the tightly laced bodice of her

with just the tip of her finger. "Do you want to say my n

nd narrow, were drawing him in, drawing him in

ss to it. A hunger that was an werewolves hunger. And

d. And still, so tempting. His heart began to beat hard and

white breast, and felt nothing sti

. "lt is Lisa who makes you. lt is Lisa who takes you. The power of your

is grief, with all of his rage, Hunt struck at her heart

it. lt wasn't human. Here was the demon who had taken his brother, who his her evil behind co

s lightning tore at the sky. The words he needed to say were l

rage. "You would use your young clouness power, your pitiful magic on me?

truck Hunt's arm, they

ace. By my blood." He used his alhpa wolf's crews, scored his palm. "By the blo

ry. Tangled, they crashed over the mountain cliff to the jagged ledge below. Through waves of pain and fea

ld see in those red eyes the evil Luna his brother had beco

me stop her. We still

lt's only the beginning." He leaned down, licked blood from Hunt's face, playfully. "She w

hem to his brother's throat, Hunt

is face. Even as he clutched at the wound, he fell. For an instant, Hunt thought he s

, groped for any hold. Lightning illuminated his face, tight with pain, as he inched his way up the grea

d with the ravages of his grief, angry and shock. He had nothing but the

when he rolled to his back with

perhaps he'd sent the demon

the storm as it had gone out of him. He smelled home, horse and hay, the herbs he'

n the rise of the wind. He knew if the thing that had taken his brother came for him now,

e small cottage, dragging hi