"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

It's hours before I can do anything except shout curses at the stone that can't hear me. I try to get through the door a hundred different ways. I run into it until my shoulder feels as though something has gone wrong in it and my arm goes numb. I try to push myself through the bars. I scream and scream until my throat is raw. 


No one comes to see what is happening. I hear no noise from the camp beyond. Everything is silent. 


It took a little time for it to sink in what was going to happen after Dupree left. My friends think she is the Fire Spirit. I never spoke of her fakery, never thought I needed to. I thought I was protecting Dupree from being found out and killed, but instead I've allowed everyone to think that the set of Elementals is complete and they need search no longer. 


They will reach whatever is happening in the rift, look to her for help and they may die waiting for that help to come. 


Chapter 41: I won't run away