Page 15 of Bitten By Bloodmoon
Her eyes narrow into bullets. “You wouldn’t dare. Vampires can’t walk in the sunlight.”
“No, but it’s one of the reasons I picked this area of the forest. The trees are thickest here, and besides, the gods decided to bless us with a cloudy day. Doesn’t seem like I need to shift into my wolf after all.”
“In your wolf form, you can walk in the sunlight?”
I smirk, happy that she’s asking questions. “Yes.”
Ask more.
She doesn’t.
“You could still put some damn clothes on.”
“I could, but why would I when it irritates you so much? Afraid you’re going to like what you see too much and betray Ambrose?”
“I’ll never betray him.”
“Because he’s your mate?”
“Because I love him.”There it is—the truth.
My stomach sours. Not because I want her or truly think she’s my mate. I think the gods are playing games with us. Lumi is nothing more than a way to break the curse to me. But because I can’t imagine anyone loving Ambrose.
“Well, then, my being naked won’t be a problem, then.”
She huffs. “Wolf shifters.”
My smile broadens.
“What?” she asks.
“You called me a wolf shifter, not a vampire.” I start walking, and she follows in step next to me.
“Whatever, you’re still an asshole either way.” Her eyes turn to the small village nestled among the trees. When I turned vampire, we found the castle I now call home nestled in the trees, but the rest we built home by home. Each is as unique as the next.
“You could join the Bloodmoon pack if he ends up not being your mate.”
Her head snaps in my direction, and she rubs her hands over her arms as if she got a chill at that thought. “Never. I barely survived Moonlight’s initiation. I would never survive yours.”
I narrow my eyes at her, trying to read her, and I once again am pushing into her mind. But whether she realizes it or not, she’s blocked me out. There’s a solid door up where I can usually just stroll right through her mind.
“What was Moonlight’s initiation?”
“Not as bad as yours.”
“I doubt that, since ours is a simple vow after you’ve been granted the alpha’s permission. And since I’m the alpha, you already have permission. So a simple, yes to the question of if you’d like to join the Bloodmoon pack and be loyal to us is all it would require.”
Her eyes widen at me as she stops in her tracks, staring at me like she’s never seen me before. She’s not gaping at my naked body. Just peering into my jet-black eyes.
I open my mind, hoping she’ll probe to find the truth like I did with her, but she doesn’t. She probably doesn’t realize she can do it yet.
“I’m telling the truth. I don’t like to lie.”
“No, you just kill innocent people and send your vampire friends to torture me.”
I wince at the pain in her words.
She starts walking again, her gaze fixed on the empty houses as we walk. The pack went hunting this morning.
