"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 don't focus on Christian at first. I'm soaked with water and dripping onto the stone floor, my chest heaving and the contents of my stomach roiling in an attempt to get out. I don't want to lock eyes with my vampire while throwing up all over his feet. 


Instead I look for Chrissy. I have a small burst of terror that she might be dead when I see her. She's so still, so pale. She's lying curled on one side with water still leaking out of her nose as one of the guards does what he can to reverse what he did to her in the first place. 


The lack of air has sent me dizzier than thick smoke sends a wasp’s nest. For a breathless second I could have sworn with hand on heart that the water running out of Chrissy's mouth was trickling up her face instead of down. 


Chapter 29: We're even now