THE WOLF KING'S BRIDE

blood-red behi

ld with rust and silver hues. The symbol on her collarbone pulsed to the slo

a hunti

was out

uld fe

alive beneath

ath, waiting, as the forest groaned with the weight of something ancient a

very cent

Wolf

eath rippling meat, he was not the

t. The predator

over fallen trunks and streams, tasting the air, following the pulse

hing

ng supe

d in the leaves, stepping in step behind him in quiet reverence. The hunt wa

e prey wasn't j

a rem

ory was no long

ed. And with it,

yard, hooded cloak cinched tight across her

the hunt like

lf King's heart knock

th he took

nds tr

he hea

pths of the forest like a summons to the s

s a p

g had be

led her ahead of h

eeper into the trees than before, drawn on

losed in ar

name, not with terro

e

the glade of silver a

skin rising from the cold. At his feet lay a creature she did n

d sla

ill breat

said, not t

ou realize

he said. "As

ead slowly.

wled. "Summoned by the

art pound

est rose and fell with each breath, bare chested, blood slicking over his che

monster at his fee

ood up

the bond has claimed you as mine. And because the forest recogn

at him-gold,

than a king

. "I am a curse.

I came

e she could make out the sc

now," she

fingers creeping up to trac

skin. Her breath clogged in her throat as her mark made

d her. "But this-" his hand pressed ag

r before she cou

m surrounded he

id not k

r making his jaw set, c

y of your own will. When the moon is over th

t cu

one that compels me to hunt to live. That binds me to the thron

queen," s

s forehead was touc

k, going to the bod

st," he said. "They

use o

use o

clearing, scented with ash an

est rem

unt w

st for

t for

r the

ory of his touch as a secret in her skin. Her mark pounded, t

a kingdom looki