The Alpha King's Princess

that every step sent bolts of agony through me. I just needed to get away. I couldn’t go back into the caves. He’d

people who were running ahead of me seemed to slow down as they reache

lled from behind us. “We

ain fell in thick, heavy sheets. I ran into the rain, and a flash of memory went through my mind. For a moment, I was running towards a paved hig

lways come for me. He promised to protect me, to take care of me.

nto the ground. I felt someone run across my leg. Someone else ran across my arm, d

looking, but there were no lights coming, no thrum of an engine, j

saw a flash of light cutting through the darkness as the gun went o

ancia yelled

slipped though the air then turned silver as it drifted over my head. I looked in the direction it was coming from

the ground and burst into

don't

elled, twisting, and pull

gun clattered to the ground, and he slumped against the tree. Some

. It shuffled forward out of the cave and sank into a crouch like a

ifted through the air. It was a man, I was sure, and it

. "Please, she

tared at the beast as it simply watched us. Francia

not your baby

d her by the neck, the baby in his arm as he lifted h

said. "You are more

carelessly t

ow how she got this child and

urse,

hed. "There is

. The rain didn't seem to touch him

have been

hey set off a bomb in the center of tow

would ca

ughed.

ost them will be little more than fodder by the end of it." He turned back towar

n half of the group seemed to

ou do to them?" I shuddered. "You'll

e. As he grew closer, my vision blurred. His face was shadowe

couldn't even speak as he pulle

ded at how unlike anything I've ever seen before he seemed. Then,

suffering," he said, his eyes drifting over me. "Yo

lurched

… It is not as though the Full Moon line is known f

talk about the Full Moon pack that w

his head back. "At le

ey killed the vampir

eyes glinting w

've had to listen to such idi

my chest, I bowled over, curling away fr

d through the pain. "Candido is

"It seems I have saved your life ye

the rain wash away the blood

, looking down at me and pursing

is Ca

now and why would I care?

an manage to follow?" She nodded sti

going anywhere until you

by my arm. I yelped as he s

me!" I said.

you will and won't do, nor will I be wasting

"You don't treat

d kept failing. "Raven would have been smart

d to bite him. My teeth clamped down on something that felt more like stone than flesh. It made my teeth ac

aised by wolves," he said. "I

d as tears streamed down my face. "You'r

ore tears stream

ke you re

up to take you off my hands. Maybe you both would learn a thing

's as stubborn as every one of hi

I asked. "I know y

matter? His whereabouts are