Ritual by Lola Taylor

Author:Lola Taylor [Taylor, Lola]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BLood Moon Rising #6
Publisher: Lola Taylor
Published: 2016-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

Contact me within three hours, or they die.

Straight and to the point. Nothing cryptic about it, which, in some morbid way, Nik appreciated.

He already knew their lives were in danger before reading the message. In fact, it didn’t really surprise him. It had been expected. After all, if he were an evil son of a bitch with no soul—and sometimes, he questioned whether or not he still had one after some of the things he’d done to survive—he would ransom his enemy’s loved ones’ lives, too. It was a smart move.

Only, when that message came delivered in your loved ones’ blood…well, let’s just say that made an entirely different impression.

Soon as he smelled Alara’s blood, he nearly vomited. His body went still, all but his hands, which hung limply at his sides, trembling.

He couldn’t look away. In another one of those surreal moments of his life, his sense of where he was, why he was here, whom he was with, abruptly vanished, as if his mind had gone numb. Like the growing horror in his chest as he slowly comprehended what he read somehow hollowed him out, made him feel as though someone had shoved a block of ice down his throat.

His mouth filled with spit. His tongue twitched, urging him to swallow, but he couldn’t even do that. It was only when his eyes began to water from being open for so long, when that first hot tear fell on his cheek and forced him to blink, that he felt “in the moment” again.

And the horrible sense of loss was so great, it nearly sent him to his knees. A sob started to escape, but he snapped his mouth shut, sealed his lips. He was an Alpha, dammit. No way in hell would he cower—not now, not fucking ever.

But he wanted to. He wanted to beg God for mercy, to scream at him for letting this happen, to claw at himself for being so reckless as to leave his mate’s side when war was on the horizon.

He should have known she wouldn’t be safe. None of them were while that snake lived.

And who had brought her to his doorstep?

The rational part of his brain said, Now, Nik, you knew Mistress Black was most likely coming to kill you all, anyway. World domination kind of works that way.

But the irrational, pissed-off part that needed something to punch said, Hell, naw, motherfucker. That SOB, sorry sack-of-shit brother brought this plague upon us, and he deserves to PAY!

Gritting his teeth, he closed his eyes. Saw Alara’s kind, steady gaze in his mind’s eye, felt the memory of her hand upon his cheek. “You’re stronger than your anger.”

He growled a curse in frustration, his eyes stinging all over again. God, he missed her so damned much. His mind skipped forward to the future. Instead of picturing him and Alara sitting on a porch in a little farmhouse somewhere in the boonies, sipping sweet tea with cute little lemon slices because she loved that

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