"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

I thought for a good moment that Christian was dead. Or maybe just unconscious. But it turns out in a few anxious beats of my heart that he was just going limp in sheer relief for after the howling and shrieking dies down, hands are helping him off me and he's back to his usual self. 


I'm sad to see the other version of him go. The one who held my hand and let me see him soft and vulnerable in the firelight. 


But I'm also glad to see that he's well enough to be as insufferable as he usually is. 


"Be careful of my leg, a creature infected it and though we have treated the infection it may yet shatter," he says firmly to one of the soldiers. "Lean me against the tree and go help with the last beast. That should not be left to a woman to deal with." 


Chapter 14: Does that woman have a sword?