River Cast: Part Two in the Tale of Lunarmorte Read Free

her axe
mounted on the wall. “What about it?”
    He shrugged and looked at
her, trying to appear calm, but his jaw was clenched tightly. “If
you’re saying you can’t control it, why do you have a weapon in
here that could kill you in your sleep?”
    Because it
doesn’t matter.
    She didn’t say that.
Reuben would kill her himself if she said that. He wanted her to be
so happy here with him and the gang, taking out bad guys, living
off Lily’s inheritance. But she was miserable. She ached with every
part of her body for the pack. She wanted her mother and father,
and her little niece Jaela. She wanted to run free with them
through the woods behind Lucien’s house, and play and tussle with
Sebastian. Her dresser began to shake at the thought of Seb and she
quickly threw him out of her mind.
    He was gone. She wasn’t
ever getting him back.
    She could have the pack back
if she wanted.
    But she didn’t. She
wouldn’t.
    She wouldn’t live with the
people who reminded her of when she was whole and pure and good.
She was something else now; something broken and corrupted, and she
just couldn’t face that kind of disappointment from the people she
loved after everything that had happened to her.
    “ Well?”
Reuben pressed.
    “ I’ll take it
down.” It would be easier than explaining to him about how messed
up she was. She guessed he knew it already, though.
    “ Jae... ” he
placed his large cool hand over hers.
    Crap, she winced, looking
up into his face. She shouldn’t make eye contact with him. His
black eyes asked for way more than she could give.
    “ Don’t.” She
snatched her hand back, refusing to meet his gaze.
    He snapped up off the bed.
“If you would just let me in, I could help you. Just tell me what
happened to you.”
    No
way. No one could ever know how bad it
got.
    At her silence he heaved a
heavy sigh. “Fine. I’ll let you sleep.”
    “ OK.”
    He turned to leave and
then looked back at her. “Just so you know, we may have to leave
the city. The rogues have cottoned on to the fact this is no longer
an easy target for breaking Coven law.”
    She nodded, not caring
where they went.
    “ I’m going
out.”
    Again she nodded. Reuben
had a tendency to disappear every now and then to goddess knows
where. Jae didn’t ask about his mysterious loner ventures. That
would imply that she cared.
     
    2 - Midnight
Rebel
     
    As Caia finished the last
sentence on her report for Marion, she sighed and eased back in the
chair at her desk. The light outside was fading and with it
bringing memories she couldn’t dispel. It had been months now since
she had killed her uncle Ethan after his kidnapping and torture of
Jaeden; since Sebastian had been murdered in the
crossfire.
    Months since the pack had
seen any semblance of normality.
    She turned and, like many
nights, let her gaze drift outside her window and into the
darkening woods. Jaeden had been gone for months and only Caia, and
perhaps Lucien, knew why. The torture she had undergone at the
hands of Ethan was unthinkable, and Caia hadn’t been able to tell
her family how bad it must have been for her to leave the pack.
Jaeden’s father, Dimitri, was distraught and constantly demanding
Lucien do something about it, but one look at Caia’s face and she
had known he knew it was best to leave Jaeden to come to terms with
her tragedy by herself.
    She was strong enough to
make it through the cage so she was strong enough to be
alone.
    But it wasn’t forever.
Caia was giving her another month, and if she wasn’t back by then,
she’d fulfil Dimitri’s wishes and bring her back to the pack
herself.
    Caia sighed
again, her eyes drifting down and across her bed, and with it
heated memories flooded her. Dear
goddess , she scoffed at herself. She was
lucky she hadn’t fallen pregnant! Since lykans couldn’t carry
disease, nor become pregnant unless mated, using protection during
sex was usually only utilised by mated couples who weren’t ready
for