Page 66 of Bitten By Bloodmoon
“Maybe not, but I don’t trust him not to kill you. And you could be the key to breaking the curse.”
“I killed Rowena. What makes you think I won’t kill him, too?”Ask me. Ask me more.
“I don’t. But he’s a pack member. Alphas don’t go around killing pack members. Even ones they hate. You’d be challenged as the alpha.”
I look to Kael, giving him a slight choice in the matter. But he’d do anything she asks of him. She, too, is his weakness.
Fuck, he loves her. Does everyone who spends any time with her fall in love with her? I’m doomed if so.
I look at Lumi one more time to ensure this is really what she wants.
She nods.
I move in one quick motion, so quick that Kael never sees me coming. I don’t give him time to feel fear or to run. One second I’m in my chair, the next I’ve leaped to his side and sunk my fangs into his neck until I’ve tasted one single drop. The next blink of an eye, I’m standing across the deck, carefully holding my breath so the scent of his blood doesn’t tempt me into drinking him dry.
“It’s done. Cover your wound. We should go.”
“Give him a command first,”Lumi says.
She doesn’t know how hard this is on me. How much it pains me to do this.
I look to Kael with sharpened eyes. “Don’t take any action that will hurt Lumi.” I can feel the magic working, his mind bending to me as I speak. I have ultimate control over him. Ultimate power. I fucking hate it.
I can’t stay here any longer. I need a minute away. Quickly, but without using any of my vampire or wolf shifter speed, I grab my backpack and climb down the stairs and out into the forest. The sun has just begun to peak through the forest leaves. I should shift soon, so I don’t have to hop around through the shadows.
A few seconds go by before Lumi joins me. “Thank you. I needed Kael to see how serious I was. I won’t make you use the mind control on him again unless it’s absolutely necessary, but Kael tends to make stupid decisions when it comes to my safety.”
“Don’t we all,” I mutter under my breath.
“What?” she asks.
“Nothing. Are you ready to go?”
She nods.
“It’s several hours north through the forest. I’m going to shift into my wolf form. You’ll ride on my back.”
She frowns. “Can’t we take a car?”
“No, there aren’t roads to this coven. They prefer isolation deep in the forest.”
“Can’t you just vampire run us there?”
I shake my head. “Too much sunlight to dodge going that fast.”
She sighs.
“Do you have a problem riding on my back?”
“No, I just hate that I can’t run alongside you. Seeing you in your wolf form just reminds me that I can’t.”
“I’m sorry.”
“It’s not your fault that I can’t shift. You have nothing to be sorry for.”
More sunlight starts to creep in through the branches of the trees. I begin to undress, and she blushes before turning around.“You can watch, you know. Wolf shifters aren’t modest, and I know you like looking at my body.”
She just shakes her head but doesn’t turn around.
