Page 88 of Bitten By Bloodmoon
“And who wins in a battle between witches and vampires?”
“No one wins until the curses are broken, but we can get them to leave our territory. We can keep our pack and coven safe. We can live to fight again tomorrow, to find a way to break the curse for everyone so there can be peace.”
I nod. “They should know that. I want to break the curse for all creatures, even if the seers say that I can only break the curse for one.”
“Just be prepared that they might not want to listen. Sometimes the only way to get others to listen is to win the battle.”
“I thought you just said there are no winners?”
He sighs. “Don’t listen to me, I’m not good with words. I prefer to use the one skill I’m good at—killing.”
“Why do you always refer to yourself as a killer when I’ve never seen you kill any more than Ambrose or any other alpha?” I challenge.
For a moment, I think he’s going to answer. And the answer will probably tell me something important about him that I’m missing.
“They’re here,” he says suddenly. He reaches into his back pocket, pulling out two blades and hands them to me. I grab them, but he doesn’t release them to me. He holds on until I’m looking him in the eyes. “Stay near me. You’re who they came for. I won’t let them take you unless you want them to. And if you want them to take you, you have to convince me it’s because it’s what you really want, not because you’re turning into a martyr and will sacrifice yourself to save the Bloodmoon pack or the vampires.”
I yank the blades out of his hand. “I’m not a martyr.”
“Good, don’t become one.”
“I’ll do my best to stay close.” I swallow. After all, that’s what I wanted this whole time, to be intimately close to him. I won’t run.
“If you choose him, tell me,” he says.
There’s an awkward pause as if he wants to say more. He really thinks I’ll choose Ambrose right now after everything he’s done.
“We’re here. Come talk to us, and no one will get hurt,”Ambrose says in my head. He feels like he’s on autopilot, talking to me. Not like the intimate mate I used to know so well, like he’s playing a role right now.
I open my mind as wide as I can, letting the words drift through so that Nyx can hear Ambrose’s words too.
“If you try to take her against her will, it will be the last thing you do,”Nyx says to Ambrose in my head.
“I’m not the one who can mind control her,”Ambrose snaps back.
“No, but you can alpha command her and control her wolf. So both of us suck. She chooses who she leaves with,”Nyx growls through my head.
It’s chaos having them both speaking to each other at the same time in my head.
“Agreed, Lumi chooses. So release her from any mind control.”
“Already done.”Nyx looks to me, and I nod, already knowing what he’s about to do. One second, I’m standing in the bedroom, the next, we are in front of the Bloodmoon pack and coven of vampires staring across a field to where the Moonlight pack and Moonfire coven are waiting for us.
Ambrose is standing front and center next to Isolde, with Emeric right behind him. The twenty or so that make up the rest of the pack and the dozen witches are spread behind their respective sides.
Nyx places me to his right. Sylara, Talonis, Brax, Riven, and Kael stand right behind us, followed by another nine of the Bloodmoon pack and the Nightfall vampires, who number almost double that of the witches.
“We are here to collect the girl,” Isolde says, like she can’t even be bothered enough to speak my name.
I glare at her from across the field. “My name is Lumi.”
“Doesn’t matter what your name is, you lied to us. You knew a part of the prophecy and withheld it from us. Others have died for less.”
“But you can’t kill me, can you? If you kill me, your chance at breaking the curse dies with me,” I spit back.
“As soon as the curse is broken, I’m going to kill you.”
“Not if I kill you first,” I threaten.
