BLOODBOUND MOON
s hands
t done the
r poisoning that should have killed him-
been the o
No. No, this wasn't happening. She wasn'
then
taring at them like they
d eyes flickering with something she
wasn't real calm. It was the kind people us
s what she wa
his gaze, to pull herself together, to prete
id you do to me?
ightly. "I was about to
shook her head. "I don't have magic.
stop
t wasn't tr
dying fox in the woods. It had been barely breathing,
been jus
it, her small hand
hen-w
ng under her skin, something
returned to the same
herself it had b
o
omach
tching her. Too cl
ready knew
p back. "This does
d. "You're lyi
know what I am
darkened. "I
uiet, but they l
s blood
k
ow why, but somehow, Ronan Dus
errified her more than the bo
demand answers,
e and iron curled
sion sharpened
ice dropped, s
react before he grabbed her
ng her behind a massive oak just as th
tree where she had been
omach
eren't
on her wrist. "They w
rocess his words before figu
hunt
lv
es with glowing gold e
blood turn
was
as so,
"Really?" His voice dripped with
d wolf
hair braided back. His amber eyes flicked between Cel
to be dead by
n't falter. "Sorr
ly. "You know how this ends. Surr
s heart
unreadable. Then, he murmured,
swallowe
rk was
ant you to be afra
-he
e to flinch before Ron
t before. She had seen B
seen a Blood Alp
terri
s bea
ed through flesh, his body moving too fast, too precise, like
ouldn't l
h
a
tal sting at
up-and felt a blade
behin
at her
orld
ime, Celeste felt i
brea
iva
n st
toward her, his
ers, and something
ir ch
voice wasn't
Her.
nd her laughe
ntire bod
th
rm sha
ft. Not like a
somethi
hing
wolf should b
he thing standing where Ronan
't even
ething els
ate, that she had never been tr
trapped wit
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