"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 lie awake in my bunk. It's impossible to get truly comfortable, I've found that out quickly in the last few weeks. Even when I get to my bunk with enough time to try to sleep, sleep evades me with the worry of what might come in the new day. Christian pushes us so hard that I'm bone tired and exhausted and still unable to sleep. 


I'm sure Chrissy cries herself to sleep every night and Mitch looks skinnier than usual and all the more solemn. Isabel has made a hit with the other cadets but won't stray too far from us, like she's worried if she goes too far away something awful will happen while she isn't looking. I know Sam is worried, I know he knows I am too. Neither of us sleep well. 


He talks in his sleep. I can hear him muttering about his father. Most of what he says is about his father or his older sister. He seems to be always having arguments with them in his sleep. It's not restful. I'm barely sleeping at all. 


Chapter 28: Drowning!