"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

There's a struggle for dominance between the two warriors when Isabel finally arrives. I feel like I'm watching two alpha wolves bare their teeth at each other, or two lions claiming the same territory. Isabel has strapped on her leather curasse and has her sword in hand, looking like a warrior born to the saddle, but Christian thinks he is in charge still. 


I don't think anyone has ever been in charge of Isabel. 


"I'm going on my own," she says shortly. "I'll be quicker. You and Ella travel slower. You have your bad leg. You should cover ground closer to the camp while I strike out into the heart of the wood." 


Christian looks as though someone gave him a bowl of snake eggs and called them cherries. "Ma'am," 


"I'm a cadet, Centurion. I'm a fighting woman. No more Miss or Ma'am or don't dirty your shoes or tear a hole in your tunic. I'm well allowed to have my sword here. You can't stop me." 


"Be quick then," Christian says tiredly. "We don't have time to waste arguing." 


Chapter 31: No, you can't keep it!