เข้าสู่ระบบแชร์
Ch 45- He smelled like Maya
วันที่เผยแพร่:
2026-10-03 13:29:44
บทล่าสุด
Moon kissed, Blood crowned Ch 46- When goodbye felt wrong
MayaHaving Kai there was both a relief and a complication.He was my brother, and I had missed him more than I wanted to admit. But Kai had a particular quality to his presence that was loud, certain, and slightly too much. Still, having him around made the camp feel less exposed than it had during the nine nights I’d spent on the road.The complication was that my ribs needed salve, my ankle needed attention, and both injuries were beginning to demand it with increasing urgency. And Kai had been watching Tyler like a wolf that hadn’t decided yet whether something was a threat. I didn’t particularly want to find out what would happen when those two things finally collided.Tyler had found a good campsite; it was sheltered and defensible, with a shallow stream nearby and clear sightlines in every direction. He had the fire going before most of the others had finished tending to the horses. And he crouched beside it, feeding the flames with the same quiet efficiency I’d watched for ni
Moon kissed, Blood crowned Ch 45- He smelled like Maya
KaiI didn’t like him.That was my first thought as I stood on the trail, my hand still resting on the hilt of my sword, watching Tyler Kingston look at my sister in a way that made my wolf sit up and take notice.My second thought was that not liking him was going to be a problem.He was clearly very good at what he did, we were clearly in his territory, and Maya was clearly not going anywhere without him.He was not what I had pictured.Nine days of tracking had built a version of Tyler Kingston in my head. A rogue lean, rough, and opportunistic. The kind of man who took jobs other men wouldn’t touch because he had nothing left to lose.That version made sense to me. It was the version I knew how to handle.But this version was different. He was large and controlled, moving with the quiet authority of a man who had once commanded significant respect and still expected it on some wordless, animal level that my wolf recognized immediately and did not particularly enjoy recognizing.An
Moon kissed, Blood crowned Ch 44- Found at last
MayaI stayed approximately five minutes at the tree line before I couldn’t stand it anymore. Immediately, I swung my leg over the horse’s neck and slid down, taking care to land on my good foot. I turned and passed the reins to Valeria.She placed a hand on my wrist, and her expression made it perfectly clear that I had been told to stay hidden and obey the instruction. I agreed with her principle but in practice, I could hear voices on the trail.Tyler’s voice was low and controlled, and then another voice reached me. My heart stopped.Kai.I was already moving before I had even decided to move. Valeria’s hand fell away as my feet carried me through the undergrowth toward the trail. My bound ribs made every step a negotiation, and my swollen ankle put me on the losing end of it. I came through the tree line and stopped.Tyler was standing with his back against the birch tree, and a young boy stood a few steps away from him, staring at the ground with an unusual amount of concentrati
Moon kissed, Blood crowned Ch 43- Nine days of pursuit
TylerMy wolf had stopped speaking to me. That was new, because after seven years of constant internal commentary, restless, opinionated, occasionally useful, his silence felt almost louder than his voice.He had made his position clear and I had ignored him. So now he had withdrawn into dignified contempt.My wolf knew what Maya Russell was. He had known from the moment we took her from Sherwood Forest, perhaps even before he had properly seen her face. Ever since, he had been making his position clear with patient persistence.He knew he was right. And apparently, he was willing to wait for me to admit it. But I was not willing to agree with him.Rogues didn’t have mates. At least, that was what I had always believed.Separation from the pack severed that part of a wolf too. The bond went dormant or died altogether along with everything else that was lost when a wolf became a rogue.For seven years, I had felt no yearning for a mate. Seven years of moving from place to place, with no
Moon kissed, Blood crowned Ch 42- The trail that led to her
KaiWe found the bear site mid-morning. You couldn’t miss it, because the trail told the whole story in mud and hoofprints. Two horses had been moving at a steady pace, and then everything had descended into chaos.The ground was churned up. There was a wide sliding mark where something large had gone sideways, and in the soft mud of the trail was a clear impression that stopped me cold.The shape of a person. Someone had landed on their back, arms flung wide and pressed into the muddy earth like an insignia stamped into papyrus.A woman’s figure. I crouched and took a quick sniff and it was Maya’s scent, not Valeria's. I stood over the impression for a long moment without saying anything.“The horse went over,” Finn said from behind me. He was reading the ground the way he read everything, quietly, methodically, without drama. “Reared and fell backward, from the look of it. Both riders went down.”“Both?” I asked.“Yes. Both.”Liam had wandered farther up the trail and came back pra
Moon kissed, Blood crowned Ch 41- The past beneath his scars
TylerShe had been trying to hide it all afternoon. The shallow breathing and the way she held her left arm slightly away from her body. The careful stillness in the saddle that she maintained through sheer will for hours. Every time I glanced back, she met my eyes with that level stare that seemed to dare me to even suggest she couldn’t handle it.And I had let her handle it. Even though I felt a stab of guilt for pushing her.We needed the ground and we made good distance, better than I had expected. By the time the light began to fade, we found a campsite in a sheltered hollow. We had covered more ground than we had on any day since crossing the river.Valeria was asleep against the rock shelf within minutes of stopping. Maya, however, lowered herself carefully onto the ground beside the fire, her jaw set and her pale face telling me everything her mouth refused to say.“I need to check your ribs,” I said. “They might be broken.”“They’re fine,” she replied through clenched teeth
บางทีคุณอาจจะชอบ
Alpha Brock
C.J. Primer577.9K viewsMy Alpha Stepbrother's Dirty Secret
The Sugaredpen719.4K viewsTHREE BROTHERS! ONE MATE!
Lockness924.4K viewsCaged Between The Beta & Alpha
Moonlight Muse878.7K viewsHis rejected mate, The Lycan King's obsession
Annywrite 83 viewsImpregnated by the Wrong Alpha Brother
Vic Joe192 viewsThe Millennium Silver Wolf: Caught Between The Twin Alphas
Kiznel Writes126 viewsThe Alpha King’s Secret Heir
Katherine Jones259 views
