Moonbound Lies
py as mist clung to the forest floor. Aria's breath clouded in the chilly air as she worked,
ed. Whatever battle he'd been in, it was unlike anything she'd seen , the wounds
out a blood-soaked rag in a nearby strea
down just as his human form began to break through the surface of his
hat a
ed to his forehead, strong jaw shadowed with stubble, skin bronzed and marred by
rom his forehead. She hesitated, then let her
hen it h
sp
ling low in her belly. Kade's eyes snapped op
et stor
falling away as though b
lf up. His gaze locked onto hers like
gravel, but beneath it lay a f
ile, a descendant of a bloodline hunted for centuries. That her mother had died in
g on binding a wound across his ribs.
urt, but enough to stop her moving away. The same spark leapt between them a
ent only the most ancient wolves could detect , and Alphas
now me," she
n death long enough to know what stands
was," she shot b
a taut string, neither able to cut it. Aria hated the way it mad
hering her things. "If you try shift
Kade growled, but his v
rtain the world bent to their will. She'd spent her life av
it too, something
dn't afford
supplies," she said s
ai
ssion had softened, the aggression
emanded. "Tell me
ing but found hers
No hint of
ver his tongue, as if te
t when he said it ,
tted, though it seemed to pa
he said, and vanished into the
That
irring branches, distant howls carrying messages she could no longer deci
d fe
bo
out by elders, but something
with a man who could destroy ev
sounded at the door. Not a knock, precisely
d turned
that signal
r
night before stepped insi
found
rance. "He won't survive
gone by dawn. If the Council finds him here, the
he bond?" she
it breaks. Or pray you're
e that, he w