Moonbound Lies

py as mist clung to the forest floor. Aria's breath clouded in the chilly air as she worked,

ed. Whatever battle he'd been in, it was unlike anything she'd seen , the wounds

out a blood-soaked rag in a nearby strea

down just as his human form began to break through the surface of his

hat a

ed to his forehead, strong jaw shadowed with stubble, skin bronzed and marred by

rom his forehead. She hesitated, then let her

hen it h

sp

ling low in her belly. Kade's eyes snapped op

et stor

falling away as though b

lf up. His gaze locked onto hers like

gravel, but beneath it lay a f

ile, a descendant of a bloodline hunted for centuries. That her mother had died in

g on binding a wound across his ribs.

urt, but enough to stop her moving away. The same spark leapt between them a

ent only the most ancient wolves could detect , and Alphas

now me," she

n death long enough to know what stands

was," she shot b

a taut string, neither able to cut it. Aria hated the way it mad

hering her things. "If you try shift

Kade growled, but his v

rtain the world bent to their will. She'd spent her life av

it too, something

dn't afford

supplies," she said s

ai

ssion had softened, the aggression

emanded. "Tell me

ing but found hers

No hint of

ver his tongue, as if te

t when he said it ,

tted, though it seemed to pa

he said, and vanished into the

That

irring branches, distant howls carrying messages she could no longer deci

d fe

bo

out by elders, but something

with a man who could destroy ev

sounded at the door. Not a knock, precisely

d turned

that signal

r

night before stepped insi

found

rance. "He won't survive

gone by dawn. If the Council finds him here, the

he bond?" she

it breaks. Or pray you're

e that, he w