Fated By Blood And Moonlight

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Crimson Hollow a

ive black steed she now clung to as Kael Thorne led t

led behind them. The forest swallowed the blood and smo

ara sat behind him, arms loosely around his waist, too stunned

ck was

mour

mi

o

se of

ause o

oat tig

e, blood slick on his skin, the mark of kings carved into the back of his shoulder-a dark cr

into her exposed skin as they

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ened around the forest floor like a blanket of ghosts. Kael dismo

She flinched as her feet touched the ground, knees

owed. "You're co

away. "It's

ot any

cloak and draped it

stared

without blinking. The same beast who had declared her hi

st worse th

derstand,"

't you un

I'm not anyone. Just a servant. A curse. I've ne

're

fell lik

is towering form blott

ice low. "That's not a curse. It's a sigi

nfused. "What..

of the M

a wave. "I've... I'v

d it. Feared it. They kept you smal

ake

bound wolves are born only once every few centuries. They are directl

dded s

olf-she's..

n't speak. I feel her some

she's w

r w

r m

eath c

g the fabric over her mark. The cresc

uted. The moment I touched you... t

now what t

er ear. "It means you're waking up, little wolf.

heart th

p back, but her b

llenge him-but he

deep inside her,

i

isper. N

gr

wo

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rees. Kael lit a fire with practiced ease, then tossed her a b

fore realizing how r

saying nothing, but hi

nished, he hand

ri

t is

t wa

tared

ll you now?" he a

you wanted me dead, I'

rk tugged a

ed, the firelight casting golden shadows across his ches

s... some

regal all

" he said, eye

are

ayed by their entire pack. Y

ong," she murmured. "I survived b

eyes

re wr

blin

way you refused to drink the poison. The way you st

at. No one had ever spoken of her

er a moment. "We le

are we

ned, his voice like a g

here you'll never

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