The Cursed Bride

going to

ps approaching made her start running once more. She did

ilities than she could imagine. She'd heard of their speed and strength, a

they walked, a casual ease to their chase. She knew if they wanted to, they would have her head in a mat

e echoing in the dense silence of the forest

y getting dark. She sent up a prayer of gratitude that it w

herself even get caught in this situation. She should've g

nd outside past sunset, especially this close to the full moon. Yet she'd defi

remembering the stern warning her aunt and best friend had given her before they'd left. She had been going stall to stall, making things easi

hoed as the sound of footsteps trampling on the f

out in a singsong tone, his voice ev

human. We wo

ght of their silhouettes just a few feet away. She willed her body to run but something about t

aid several times but today it was confirmed. Why did she run into the fore

d there. They had their own parts of the town, and while the Lycans mingled fr

etty bloodshed. No Lycan had hurt a human since it had been set in place an

ser. A wicked grin was plastered on each of their faces and

trapped air in her chest burn as she struggled against her rising pa

y against the tree and with the Lycans crowding her from

man and rasped, "Please...help! Somebody!!..." She managed to let out a scream at the last word. Her legs gave

cus on her breathing and to think of a plan. A

et standing around her were gone. Confused and slightly terrified by t

s wearing a dark coat that seemed to stretch across his muscular frame. Tourist season had been and

ar cheekbones and a sharp jaw, but it was his eyes that made it impossible for her to look away. Dark

as he had shown up, he was kneeling before her. All thoughts of the Lycans who had been terrorising her, and o

slightly then gently caressing. He seemed mesmerized by it as though he'd never seen anything like it. "Flames," He said, voi

n order. Why was she having such a visceral reaction to this stranger? She'd

moved his face closer to her and quietly inhaled. "That scent." He g

elf to move away but her traitorous body moved closer t

hand moved from her hair to rest on her cheek, setting off a thunderclap that

once-over, the look in hi

three Lycan men appeared out of nowhere surrounding him and immediately bowed their heads. '

ed the man-the male Lycan, the Alpha King-stand up to address them. They instantly r

way he held himself and the stillness with which he moved that he was not human. She

he girl? What did

darted round, waiting for the right moment to escape, but the Alpha followed

oke matter-of-factly, as though

sed for being attracted to him, to be attracted to a kind she d

ilence, and then an amu

flicker of his hand, the guards moved i