"Tell me it meant nothing to you. Tell me I mean nothing to you. Look me in the face and tell me, but don't you dare lie to me."

His jaw is rigid as he looks down at me, his eyes stormy and so dark blue that they are nearly black. 

"If you meant nothing then this would be easier," he says. His hands are trembling, fisted in my shift and I press myself against him. "If you meant nothing," he says, his lips just above mine. "Then I would not have to walk away."

***

Ella Crow was going to be the next Alpha of her pack, instead turning out to be an outcast with no supernatural gift.

Christian St Clair is a royal vampire who seems unable to control his hunger for Ella. Everything around her seems to be one mystery after another and it's not a world that a country girl from a woodland pack knows how to travel. 

Is there love to be found on the brink of war?

The Children of the Moon is created by Harriett Nielsen, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.

The Children of the Moon

"Oh dear Goddess," Sam says as Isabel leads me back to the little group. "You killed him. He tried to put moves on you and you killed him. You killed a vampire Centurion. We're going to have to give you an alibi." 


I blink at him in confusion, taking the blanket that Isabel passes me and sitting so slowly that my legs feel like they're creaking beneath me. Every part of me aches in a different way. I'm so tired that I almost close my eyes and give in to the wave of exhaustion but all my new friends are clamoring at me with questions and...


"What do you mean I killed him? I didn't kill him," I say slowly. 


"You're literally drenched in blood," Sam says, making a dramatic gesture at my clothes. "What are we supposed to think?" 


I want to say something smart and sarcastic but when he puts it like that I realize that I would have jumped to the same conclusion. 


"Don't heckle her," Isabel says, sitting down next to him. "Shove over, Samhain, you take up too much room."


Chapter 15: I'll drink to that!