The Mate Hunt
My only chance to reach Mara.
I looked directly at him, through every barrier, every secret.
“If taken before sunrise,” I said, voice carrying, “I surrender my freedom and mating rights to the hunter who claims me.”
Light flared beneath my feet, crimson, sharp as spilled blood. The ballroom erupted. Women cried out in shock. Several hunters recoiled, instinctively wary. Aldric’s hands trembled, the blade nearly slipping from his grasp.
Ronan’s wolf roared beneath his skin, barely contained. His claws extended, muscles flexing, the sound he made not remotely human.