Bound by Blood and Moonlight
scream with sound
the bark like a warning. Alero stumbled forward, her hand clutching he
r-bright and watching. The runes carved into
and she would b
ething
ns had never
, they had sh
. And, if fate had any
ed into t
in like thorns but she gritted her teeth and pu
t her
se it
. Not just witch. Not e
ething fractured. Something
e moved deeper into enemy land. The
hi
as c
cl
om the shadows, teeth
didn't
l was silenced, another drowned in blood. The
in a blink, bla
ere was
p in her lungs-not from the fight-
as h
ually come," a voice sa
old. A tribal wolf tattoo curled on his arm like it had a pulse
tensed
wasn't
to talk," she
n't wo
forward. She he
d your s
kno
oing to av
head. "Did the
o.
ey got o
t every word dripped
stirred in her blood, it
he said, gaze dro
-like scar curled beneath her rib
nize it?"
tened. "I ha
stuttere
. "Why do you think I've been drea
, thick with tension. Her fi
" she w
here to c
ause I'm n
lickering behind the gold. "
m n
too fast
f her. One hand at her thro
like fire caught in a st
t have come,"
hot back. "I'm h
en
ssed
sn't
iny tasting
didn't p
s sank into his li
dfire. Visions slammed int
mother burned. A blad
led back,
too, eyes wild.
kisse
neck where a second m
d had a
asn't fate
omething
ing da
knees, gasping. Her magic twisted. Her body
't just
s infe
ward her. She
" she r
an h
er voice cracked. "You don't und
t is
, glowing with somethi
a cu
d, into shadow, into
h the moon, blood stil
in-command arrived, eye
t the hell
idn't
toward t
he murmured. "She's t
d away, jaw tight, eyes distant. The scen
gh to twist somethi
er?" Rafe ask
o.
t s
napped. His voice c
es didn'
idn't
't s
deeper into the
oked ash tree, her magic still shaking lo
obbed beneat
ruck like
in ch
il of w
r flame whisperi
en
hil
eam
nin
own mother
er head. "Enoug
isions di
never
he woods-a place even most wolves forgot existed. The moon hung
grazed the r
ng. Until the mark
ma
er
wasn't gone. That what had passed between them-whateve
loud, though no one was there to
Only wind thro
d a way of say
stepped away, jaw tight, tho
ke she could fold into herself and disappear. Her arms wrapped tight aroun
And right now, t
meant to
eant to bite
d her in like a tide. And now it pulsed
ed them to the mark beneath her r
," she whispered.
didn't make
he killer. The reason
who had looked at her like
prickled at her eyes, bu
hoose him," she
through the cra
mark sta
l wa