Blood Coven by Sabrina Voerman

Author:Sabrina Voerman
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781958228296
Publisher: Quill & Crow Publishing House

PART III

THE WOLF

21

OCLEAU

THE YEAR OF THE CURSE

BLAEZ

Night swept over the forest. Owls called out a beautiful, ghostly sound. No bugs tittered in the trees, the night almost entirely silent except for an animal hunting in the dark, the owls, and a lonely hunter snapping twigs and tossing them into the crackling fire. Only mere inches away from his boots, the warmth sank into him.

From this vantage point, with his back against a giant spruce tree and the firelight illuminating the grove where he camped, Blaez could see everything he needed to see. But nothing out here would harm him; he spent half his life hunting in these woods. Every life he took, he offered thanks as he put it out of its misery. The pain of watching a terrified animal look at him for help when he was the cause of its suffering never sat right with him. But he needed food and clothing, and not a single part of any animal killed went to waste: marrow for soup, bones for fertilizer and fashioned into trinkets and jewelry to sell, pelts for warmth during the long, cold winters in Ocleau.

Blaez reached his hand up to his cheek, feeling the faint scratches with the calloused pads of his fingers. They were almost healed. With a heavy sigh, he leaned forward and rubbed his chest with his hands to keep warm, then hoisted a large bear pelt over his body. In a few days, he would return to his homestead with a surplus of items for Ana to use and sell to keep her happy. To keep her occupied.

Running his hand over his bearded face, Blaez shut his eyes tight. He didn’t want to go home. He could barely call that place home. It was never his; he had never been welcomed there. He was a guest, no matter how often he patched the holes in the roof or reinforced the walls so they would not fall to ruin. Returning to Ocleau was something he dreaded so deeply that he considered never going back. But he had already been gone for over a week, the longest he had ever been. His return could not be delayed any longer.

A war went on inside his chest—a battle within his heart for what he knew was right and for what he wanted. While he knew returning home would lead to more abuse, he couldn’t stop loving Ana, no matter how hard he tried. When he fell in love with her, he sensed that she possessed a dark side, but he never expected it to come out the way it did. They met shortly after her parents died of a vicious plague that had run rampant through the town, slimming a population already decimated by a brutal winter. Blaez understood her circumstances but thought asking her hand in marriage would have been taking advantage of her situation.

When Ana suggested the idea, he agreed, not just to help her, but because he’d fallen helplessly in love with her.

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