Blood Moon by Heather Kuehl Read Free Book Online

Sarah. I know that, and I’m sorry.”
    As he spoke the darkness around us starting slowly turning gray. The sun was rising. The clouds in the distance started to turn pink and gold as the sun rose. I looked at Dom as the sudden realization hit me like a Mac truck.
    “I know what I have done can never be forgiven, and if you all find a way to live through this it will be a miracle.” He looked up at the rising sun. “There is something I can do.”
    “Meet the sun?” I asked, even though I already knew the answer. I heard footsteps behind me and turned to see Dez. He gripped a long, wooden stake in one hand.
    “I thought they’d welcome me back,” Dom said. The sun light slowly made its way across the trees in front of me, and I knew in only moments it would rise. “Rose still wanted me to kill you. I couldn’t do that and told her as much. She said that if I cared about you so much then I could die with you.” He looked over his shoulder at the rising sun. “This is the only way to make it right.”
    “It is,” I agreed. “We won’t tell them it was you.”
    “What will you say?”
    “That you left to patrol their woods,” said Dez. “After it’s over we’ll say you moved on. I agree, there is no reason for them to know.”
    “You do,” Dom said, pointing at me. “Gods I wish you didn’t, Sarah. I wish you could remember me as a good man.”
    The sun washed over the clearing. Dom turned his back to us as his skin started to smolder. Within seconds flames engulfed his entire body. I shielded my eyes against the brightness as tears blurred my vision. It felt like hours passed by before Dom turned into a pile of ash on the grass. I walked over, scattering the ashes across the clearing. Dom had met his end like the man he wasn’t, honorable and brave. It broke my heart that he couldn’t be that in life.
    Dez came over and laid a hand on my shoulder. “I wasn’t lying. Besides Damian, I don’t plan on letting anyone else know about this.”
    “Good.”
    “You need to relax, little wolf.”
    “Relax?” I felt the urge to hit him. “How can I relax? Dom, my mentor and friend, just betrayed my Clan to the BMC who, by the way, is trying their damnedest to kill me.”
    “They can’t touch the twins,” Dez said with absolute certainty, and I looked up at him in shock.
    “You can’t know that.”
    “If they try, they will have to answer to me. Rose won’t risk that.”
    I looked at the blue-haired vampire next to me. He wasn’t born a vamp, so the sunlight should be killing him. Instead he stood out here unharmed. He could teleport, again something that only a born vampire could do. Obviously, Dez liked to pretend he was a vampire, but I had to know.
    “What are you?”
    Dez laughed, clapping his hand on my back. “You wouldn’t remember even if I told you. You’ve got to trust me on this. Rose won’t hurt them.”
    “What about me?”
    Dez frowned. “I can’t guarantee that, Sarah. You broke a contract with them and there are no ancient laws to protect you from that.”
    I sighed. “Worth a try.”
    “I know.”
    The air around us shifted and then Damian stood beside us. “All clear?” he asked.
    “For now,” I answered.
    “Then get back to the house. T.D.’s here and she wants to start working on our defenses.”
    Dez disappeared, leaving me alone with the ashes under my feet. Damian, sensing the overload of emotions within me, teleported back to Donavan’s house as well. I heard his thoughts before he left; he thought that I’d be better after a good cry. He was right. I never thought I’d be the one to cry about my problems, but I had never been under this much stress. Jared was dead. Dom was dead. The BMC was coming to take more people that I loved away forever. I closed my eyes and leaned my head back, soaking up the sunrise.
    “Sarah!”
    I heard Damian’s cry in my head and my eyes snapped open. The sky above me darkened and I glanced over my shoulder to see what