Raised By The Moon

Her clothes are torn, her body aches, and th

ing a crimson glow over every

s dead body. Her throat is slashed ope

sn't remember what happ

ap. Someone

xpression is unreadable, but there's someth

eed to

howls. Mor

, dragging her away.

lves. But not normal ones. Their eyes glo

Knox barely escape, but o

muscles coil, and before she realizes what's happening, sh

t feel hum

r in an abandone

n't stop shaking. Knox watches her

ning to me?"

peaks the words that w

not hu

e coming ba

pond, a loud snarl

nd a monstrous, jet bl

earth was the first th

ping into her bones. The trees above stretched like skeletal fingers toward th

the dirt, and something warm an

hitched.

hoodie torn, her jeans soaked in red. The copper

she s

bo

d pooled around her, dark and glistening beneath the moonlight. H

tomach

r breaths sharp and r

re? What happened? But nothing came. Just empty stati

mewhere behind her

sn't a

her heart slamming

trees, a f

Riv

n all black. His dark eyes locked

pulse

ways watching. He wasn't the kind of guy people

doing here?" she dema

licked to the body behind her,

step back. Did he

How could she be sure? She woke up dr

ened. Then he to

eed to

nked. "

owls shattered

Too c

her wrist. His grip was

ow

blurred a

, but the sharp sting barely regist

er. Not normal wolves. No, these

ehind a thick tre

burned, but

he saw

emerged from

t quite wol

, bones cracking and reforming with every step. Their eyes glow

mach tw

e hell?" sh

wrist tightened.

d, baring jagged teeth. The

time to dodge the attack. The creature

r body moving before h

on her, claws glinting in

ng inside A

pened. Her inst

she ever had before, sidestepping at the last

ent the crea

g, her hands trembling with e

r didn't g

something dark fla

ea what you are

d. "What the hell

Instead, he grabbe

to keep

ntil the h

bandoned hunting cabin, the old wo

to a chair, hand

"Because I just threw a six foot hellhoun

the wall, arms cross

d. "Say so

ime, she saw it hesitation. As if whatever

he sp

not huma

her like a pun

ghtened. "Tha

aver. "Then explain

edge of the chair. "No. That, that was ad

rds cu

own, she knew

sion had sharpened in the dark. The way her bod

They're coming

reath h

she whi

. "Because you're s

him for more, a low gro

h

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a massive, jet black

ed. Eyes

ged straig

f was m

s ceiling, fur black as shadows, eyes glowing like molten gold. Its s

n't he

straight

react. One second she

mov

ly possible, he grabbed her a

apped shut where h

e beast crashing into a woo

ody was screaming at her to move, to run, but her muscle

he wreckage and turn

g intensified like a wildfire

flattened. It

kage, blood trickling from his

n was sharpening, her heartbeat

lf cha

va mo

than

second. She barely registered what happened the next moment she was

through the wall, disa

enc

hand still tingling from the impact

od from his face a

to kill you," he said, voic

ndered. "Testin

hed. Then, final

you're read

aught in her t

"No. That's, That'

ff. "Ava. You'

the air, impossibl

x, her body tremb

couldn'

k, but the memories

ses had been to

avings she cou

had been growi

made se

to Knox. "What the hel

rough his hair. "Y

into fists. "What d

supposed to shift yet. But the Blood Moon it's ch

hrough her. "

. But before h

l tore throu

r. Cl

turned i

d. "More a

tomach

asn't

st the be

th she's a werewolf, and someth