Cursed To Love The Hunter

s breath and the w

seemed to lean in, their gnarled branches was frozen like twisted fingers reaching for us. The only sound was the soft creak of the

ped into the

rku

set my teeth on edge before he even spoke. His black leathers creaked like old bones as he adjusted his grip on the crossb

t Eve. Not just to hurt

e cut through the te

ing me up like I was some prize buck he had bagged for sport. His lips curled int

ripped with disgust, slow and mocking. "Let

y palms hard enough to draw blood. Every muscle in my body was tensed, and coiled tight like a spring ready to

hand press

hat pressed between

arm. And

like a sil

n't

something inside me screamed to attac

hot at

t, rough and raw, like I had

ing his already harsh features. "And I'll do worse," he said, so casual t

t a silver dagger spinning throug

ing from the impact. The metal gleamed under the moonlight, its edge w

ice were hardening like ice. "Prove to me,

s Eve a

ammed into me like

verything m

ons she carried. That silver daggers, and the crossbow bolts dipped in wolfsbane. The car

he was on

enough to se

bloodless line. I could feel her trembling where our backs

ll do

t slithered thr

at blade through your heart and w

etched, thick a

er fingers bru

hed against the

getting. The one that ache

a heartbeat, feather-light

was so quiet that I a

can

rk vanished

ightened on

re as dead

ithout th

was fa

her body slamming into mine

e's momentum carried us both behind a massive oak. The arrow

ent of blood f

s her

wet and sticky. The bolt had torn through her leath

ed, the words coming out l

es were fixed on something over my shou

it, Ronan,"

m Markus's bolt. But seeing that dark red stain spreading across her black leathers, watching it dr

t and glistening, the blood was warm against my skin. I touched her care

was just another shadow in the trees, another hunter

ere locke

ds scraping my throat raw. "And you're telling me it was worth it?" My

, Ronan." She was already turning, pulling away from my grip, while her hunter-sharp

apped imm

rough the night

for what to come next

crickets. No owls. Just the heavy thump

ghter er

ld. And m

ease. Three more hunters melted out of the shadows behind him, it was two men and a wom

e they are f

el. "It looks like we've got ourselves a little reunion." His eye

iting into my skin. "Run on three, Ronan" she b

ike ice down my spine. "What

," I snarled, firing a warning gl

s stayed locked on Eve, like I was nothing

ng into something deadly. "Do what you were t

skidding toward us. It landed at Eve's fee

s ordered. "And don't m