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Blood Moon Betrayal Chapter 39
Kiera woke in a cart with Hale's cloak over her and the taste of blood in her mouth.It was dusk. The cart was moving at a walk, and eighty-odd people were walking beside and behind it in the road. Nobody was talking. She turned her head and saw Ryker near the front with Orla, leading the pack, and she turned it back."You're awake," Hale said. He held the reins. "Don't try to sit up.""How far?""We're at the edge of the fields." His jaw was tight. "Look at the sky, Luna."She pushed herself up on one elbow. Smoke lay over the farms. At the edge of the village a house and a barn had burned to the ground, and a few beams were still burning."Whose?""Garrow's."Her stomach dropped. "Was anyone in it?""No. He got his family out before the riders came." Hale did not look at her. "They rode up to the door, set it on fire, and told his wife to tell the Luna. Then they went back to the inn."Garrow stood in the road when they reached the village. He was black to the elbows with soot, and
Blood Moon Betrayal Chapter 38
Hale told it fast, with the lantern shaking in his hand."I was a rider on the gate when Blackwood took the old hall," he said. "The king's son was ten. He ran out the back with his nurse, and afterward everyone said he was dead." He looked at Ryker. "I knew your face in the narrows. I never told anyone. Not Damien, and not you."Ryker had felt it coming for days. It did not help."What is the ring?" he asked."The king's ring. Every king of the old line wore it. It's cut from the same stone as the doors in the mountain, and it wakes them only for the line's own blood." Hale swallowed. "Damien took it the night the old king died. He wears it, and it does nothing for him. He needs the king's son to put a hand on it, and he needs a woman with power to stand at the door while he does."Kiera had not moved. "So that's why me.""Yes.""And why Ryker.""Yes." Hale looked at them both. "I should have told you at the cabin. I thought I'd be the last man alive who knew."Kiera turned to Ryker.
Blood Moon Betrayal Chapter 37
Kiera and Hale left the ferry house before dawn on the twenty-third day, dressed as two farm hands going to cut reeds.Ryker had wanted to come. She had told him no, and she had given him the reason. He was still too weak to walk the road, and a man with a sword wound could not pass for a reed cutter. He had argued for a minute and then lain back down. She counted that as a win and felt bad about it.The river road ran south along the water for two days before it reached Rivermist. Hale knew every mile of it. He walked ahead with a scythe on his shoulder and stopped at each bend to look at the ground."Here," he said at noon.The road had narrowed. On the left the river ran fast and brown, and on the right a wall of gray rock rose thirty feet, cut straight by old quarry men. The road between them was only wide enough for two carts. It stayed that way for about two hundred paces, and then it opened into fields again."The quarry cut," Hale said. "Every farm cart in Rivermist goes throu
Blood Moon Betrayal Chapter 36
Ryker woke in the dark with the fever gone and every muscle sore.The kitchen was quiet. The stove had burned low, and a single lamp stood on the table. Kiera was asleep on the floor beside his bed, with her cloak rolled under her head and one hand resting on the edge of his blanket. He lay still and looked at the ceiling. Then he made up his mind."Kiera."She was awake at once. She sat up and put her palm on his forehead, and her face eased. "It's gone.""Marna said it would be."She sat back. "You slept a whole day. How's the side?""Sore. Closed." He took a breath. "I have to tell you something. I should have told you on the road, and I didn't, because I wanted to be sure of it first."She waited. She did not look worried. She looked like someone who had decided to listen."The rider we caught gave me a message from Damien," he said. "It was meant for me. He said, 'Tell Aldric that the ring is waiting.'""Aldric.""It's my name. My first one. I haven't used it since I was a boy."
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The cart reached the river a little after midnight. Kiera knew the place before she saw it. She smelled the mud and the reeds, and then she heard the water slapping the landing, and she was out of the cart before Hale had stopped the horse. The ferry house stood where it always had, low and square, with a lantern on a pole by the door. The flat ferry sat at the landing with its rope stretched across the dark water to the far bank. She had learned to swim ten steps from here. She did not let herself think about it. Hale knocked three times, then twice. The door opened a crack, then wide. A tall, bony woman stood in it with a poker in one hand. She was past sixty and wore a man's coat over her nightdress. "Tamsin," Kiera said. The woman stared at her. "You've got his mouth," she said. "I always said so. Get in before someone sees the lantern." They carried the hurt into the kitchen and laid them on the floor by the stove. Pell was gray, and he kept saying he could walk. Tilla cam
Blood Moon Betrayal Chapter 34
Ryker had three minutes to make a plan, and he spent the first of them leaning on a fence post to stay on his feet. "Nine riders," Dovan said. He had crossed the yard at a run with a spear in each hand. "Maybe more behind them. They'll reach the lower gate before dark." "Then we hold the gate," Ryker said. "Ten hunters behind the stone wall, and bows on the barn roof. Everyone else leaves by the back, now." "You can't shift." "I don't need to. I can shoot from behind a wall." He wiped the sweat from his eyes. "Hale, can the cart get through the woods?" "There's an old charcoal road behind the barn." Hale was already hitching the horse. "It runs down to the river and the Rivermist ferry house. It's rough, but a cart can take it." "Take the hurt, and the children, and anyone who can't run." Kiera came up beside him. She looked at the linen on his side, which had gone dark again, and then at his face. "Come with the cart," she said. "I'm staying at the wall." "I know." She kept
Blood Moon Betrayal Chapter 6
As Kiera stood before the assembled werewolf pack, their eyes shining with reverence and expectation, a shiver of trepidation ran down her spine. The weight of her supposed destiny felt like an immense burden pressing down upon her slender shoulders.Zephyra approached with a gentle smile, her ambe
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As the pale moonlight filtered through the dense forest canopy, Kiera and Ryker embarked on their dangerous journey westward. They moved swiftly and silently, their wolf-like senses alert for any sign of pursuit from Damien's bloodscent patrols.Kiera's newly awakened primal essence surged through
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Kiera slowly regained awareness of her physical form, lying spent on the hard-packed earth of the cave floor. She felt utterly drained yet somehow more vitally alive than she had ever beenThe merging with Ryker's primal spiritual force still had her reeling. She'd experienced raptures and revelat
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Ryker's rough lips moved over Kiera's in a hungry, demanding kiss. She tensed at first, but then felt herself melting into his powerful embrace. Something primal awoke deep inside her. A fierce, wild energy she didn't know existed. It raged through her veins like a raging wildfire, consuming her
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