"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

In the end we help free the baby. It's a baby. We can't help ourselves with it so small and cute and eating out of Mitch's hand. Christian says several times that we can't possibly keep it and every time his protests get weaker and more unconvincing. 


None of us know how the traps work so I use a stick for a lever, Mitch protects the little beast with his hands and Christian hits bits of it with his sword until it finally falls apart and the tiny little cub scrambles free. It immediately crawls into Mitch's tunic and burrows against him, shivering. 


"I'm its mom," he tells us, grinning. "You can't take it away from me, it will follow me everywhere." 


I groan and laugh as Christian sighs the most put-upon sigh I have ever heard come out of a grown man's mouth. I crouch to try to help Mitch wrap the creature so he won't get cut or poisoned on the way back to camp. It's now that I see his hands. 


Chapter 32: Don't let me go!