Page 59 of Bitten By Bloodmoon
“But you still carry the weight of the world on your shoulders. You still think you’re the only one capable of breaking the curse, when for us wolf shifters, it’s not even that bad. Who cares thatwe can’t find our true mates? From what I’ve seen of mates, they are overrated anyway.”
“We can’t reproduce either. Without it broken, there will be no more wolf shifters. We’ll die out.”
“Maybe that’s for the best. All I know is I don’t need to know who my mate is when I’m perfectly happy being with my best friend.”
I don’t know what to say to him. I understand where he’s coming from. I don’t need to find my mate or the love of my life either. I’d be perfectly happy spending the rest of my life with Kael, but he doesn’t realize that that could never happen. Too many know that I’m the key to breaking the curse. I’d be hunted forever. We’d always be running. Not to mention, if I can break the curse, I feel a responsibility to do that. To end the suffering of at least one species. To try to prevent a war and more destruction.
“I don’t understand. Why initiate into the Bloodmoon pack if you just want me to run away with you?”
“So Nyx can’t kill me when I do this.” Kael dips me again, but this time his lips come down hard and heavy against mine in a claiming kiss.
Chapter 16
Nyx
Staying out of her head is damn near impossible as she dances with her so-calledfriend. Herfriend, whom she doesn’t have feelings for, and he doesn’t have the hots for her. Herfriend, who just initiated intomypack to be near her. Herfriend, who keeps grabbing her ass and holding her so flush against his body that I’m sure she can feel his erection pressing into her stomach.
If he’s just herfriend, then she and I have very different definitions of the word.
“Want me to kill him for you?” Sylara asks.
“No, they are just friends.”
She scoffs. “You’re delusional if you think that.”
“Lumi’s just trying to relax after the trauma she went through. Tonight brought up some bad experiences for her.” I still can’t get the images of her spread naked, Isolde making her think she wanted to fuck the entire pack, while underneath, Lumi wanted nothing to do with them. She was almost repeatedly raped by the entire Moonlight pack, all so she could prove her loyalty.Fucking disgusting.If I didn’t want to kill Ambrose before, I do now. No one deserves to go through that.
“We’ve all been through shit. It doesn’t excuse her behavior,” Sylara says.
“Trust me, it does.”
Her eyes snap from me to Lumi.
“Whatever she needs to bury her trauma in tonight, she gets. Drinks, Kael, other men, I don’t care.”
“Fine, but she needs to at least do it behind closed doors. Everyone thinks the two of you are mates, and you’ll break the curse. If they find out that’s not true—”
“I know. I’ll send them to the house soon. I just…fuck.”
It’s too late.
I watch in slow motion as Kael dips her like he has a dozen times before. But this time, when he dips her, his lips seal against hers.
I jolt out of her head, not allowing myself to feel a single thought of what she’s feeling right now. I’m not sure if she wants the bastard or wants to sucker punch him for kissing her when her trauma is so bright tonight. Either way, I’ll end up making a bad decision that isn’t thought through.
“Fucker,” Sylara says.
Talonis, Brax, and Riven are at my side in a second. “What are your orders, sir?” Brax asks, already all business-like, like he knows a battle is about to happen, and he’s about to command a squadron in a fight.
Maybe no one noticed. Maybe he kissed her so quickly, and I, being the only one in tune with her, was the only one who noticed.
But when I look back at them, they are still kissing. She hasn’t pushed him away.Fucking hell.
“Kill him,” Sylara says, breaking me out of my head.
“No. Just get them both out of here as discreetly as possible.”
“Too late, boss,” Talonis says.
