Blood Moon Bond

leather strap of her satchel as she made her way through the forest path, the moonlight

as out ther

guttural and inhuman. Her breath caught. She

enly-he w

ed into the light. Jet-black hair, a leather jacket, silver rings g

s voice was low and rou

up a step. "

ng feral flashed across his face. "So

're foll

ut to walk into vampire territory. And

red. "You know

em? I ki

h hitched. "

ward. "The last pers

oat as a massive shadow lunged from the trees behind her.

ia knew her life was a

lur of claws and crimson

underbrush, snarls and tearing flesh echoing in the night. Aria froze, eyes wid

n. A vampire. And the stranger... he was changing. His bones shifted with sickening cracks, his spin

ere

ries hadn't been myths-they were real. All

rayed, dark and steaming. But the werewolf didn't slow. He twisted, jaws lo

ing over the vampire's crumpled bo

in the cold air, her limbs trembling

step back.

hift. Bones cracked and shrank, fur retracting. In seconds, the man wa

voice rasping. He winc

in shock. "You'r

ed more like a grimace. "And you...

glanced at the vampire's corpse, bile rising in her

his hands and met her eyes. "And the

ike the way

sked again, her voic

d. "Name

de

if listening for something. "You need to get out of her

ne lik

ked. Something flickered in his

at you are... do y

cold. "What are y

his head. "You're no

he was gone-vanishing into the t

r mind spinning with questions and fear. Somewhere deep inside

ht, she would n