Eclipse Of The Heart: A Second Dawn

rove's silen

ng beyond the trees. Mara sleeps against a mossy trunk, her breath whistling through chapped lip

since the attack.

heartbeat a fragile hum against

t," Jarek says,

hould

ire pops, embers scatte

rm, the one Mara tied too tig

s. "Would you

o.

s your

ter. "You don't get to de

g, splinters flying. "I wa

lyin

he firelight. "You think Bloodmoon's the only pack that hunts celes

hangs, sharp

e," I w

raised me. Trained me to hunt, to kill. I was their weapon-until t

e. I've never se

gs his collar down, revealing twisted scars. "I escape

light, a map of pain. My thro

ts my gaze, raw. "But I failed. Blo

r. I press my palm to the sp

s hollow. "I brought th

r branches groaning. Mara

. "You didn't

er did

r my stomach, heat

no

The pup rolls toward his palm, their he

e you," I

glisten. "The

know b

ch his wrist. His pulse

I say. "Both runni

sn't drenche

ust as

spills over us, silveri

voice rough. "Let me pr

hy

a strand of hair from my face. "Becaus

estial chime blending w

s touch. "We f

against mine, our brea