All Chapters of BLOOD MOON REDEMPTION: Chapter 1 - Chapter 6

Calista Rivers' POVThe emergency room smelled like disinfectant and blood tonight.I pulled on fresh gloves, my hands steady even though my body screamed for sleep. Sixteen hours into my shift, and I still had four surgeries waiting. This was normal. This was life.Outside the operating room, sirens wailed. Another accident victim rolled through the doors on a stretcher, and I moved toward him automatically.Nurse Jenna grabbed my arm. Her face was pale. "Dr. Rivers, this one is bad. Real bad."I looked at the man on the gurney. His chest was crushed. Blood soaked through the bandages the paramedics had wrapped around him. His clothes were torn, and I could see exposed bone through the gashes on his arms. No one survived injuries like this.But his heart monitor beeped. Slow. Steady. Impossibly calm."Get him into OR-3," I ordered. "Now."We moved fast, rolling him down the hallway. I checked his vitals on the portable monitor. His pulse was forty beats per minute. That should have m

Calista Rivers' POVI woke up in a place that smelled like old books and candle wax.My head throbbed. My body ached. For a moment, I thought I was back in the hospital, recovering from some terrible accident. But when I opened my eyes, I saw wooden shelves crammed with bottles, jars, and strange objects I could not name.I sat up slowly. I was lying on a couch in what looked like the back room of a bookstore. Dust floated in the shafts of sunlight streaming through a small window."You are awake. Good."I turned my head and saw a woman sitting in a chair across from me. She was older, maybe in her fifties, with long black hair streaked with silver. Her eyes were a piercing, unnatural blue. She wore layers of dark clothing and held a cup of tea in her hands."Where am I?" I asked. My voice was hoarse."My shop," the woman said. "You fainted. Kael brought you here."Kael. The werewolf.The memory came flooding back. The parking lot. The creature. The transformation.I stood up too quic

Calista Rivers' POVI did not go home that night.I could not. Every time I thought about my apartment, I imagined shadow creatures waiting in the corners. Red eyes watching me from the dark.So I stayed at Elena's shop. She gave me a cot in the back room and told me to rest. But rest was impossible.I lay there, staring at the ceiling, trying to make sense of everything.Werewolves. Curses. Reincarnation.And Kael.The man who killed me.I should have hated him. I wanted to hate him. But every time I closed my eyes, I saw something else.A memory that was not mine.I was standing in a forest clearing under a full moon. The air smelled like pine and earth. I was wearing a long white dress that moved in the breeze.And Kael was there.But he was different. Younger. Smiling. He looked at me like I was the most important thing in the world.He took my hand and pressed it to his chest. I could feel his heartbeat, strong and steady."I will love you until the stars fall from the sky," he s