"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

Here I am back where all of this started, in the tent of a goddess I have worshiped since I was old enough to go to my knees in prayer. She offers me a chair, offers me a drink, offers me comfort and all I can think of is why me? Why me? I'm not the smartest like Chrissy who hides the way that she scribbles weird sums and words on the back of her hand and then washes them off again. I'm not the strongest and boldest like Isabel, I'm not the kindest like Sam and I'm not the youngest and bravest like Mitch. 


I'm just Ella. Too tall, too interested in the wrong things, too much of a problem. 


"Because you are unique," she says, answering the question I haven't asked. The mist has faded from her face. I can see lines as light and luminescent as the trail of a star in a dark night sky around her eyes. "You saw my face once before, Ella Crow. You look at me with clear eyes and you feel no fear." 


Chapter 34: Elementals