Total pages in book: 120
Estimated words: 113936 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 570(@200wpm)___ 456(@250wpm)___ 380(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 113936 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 570(@200wpm)___ 456(@250wpm)___ 380(@300wpm)
It was a fresh definition for cruelty, such ignorance.
But as with learning to get along with the new side of him, finding a way to be at peace with something he couldn’t understand and couldn’t change was the internal challenge he was working on.
A little farther on, the trees gave way to a rock ledge and a cliff that dropped off to a sheer fall and a valley in the distance. The view was majestic, the rolling mountains descending to a gleaming lake, the thousands of acres of pines a fragrant blanket smoothing the contours of the undulating elevations of earth.
“This is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen,” Nadya said with awe.
He looked at his mate. Her hair was getting longer, to the point where she always had to pull it back in a tie during work, and her face, though free of makeup, had a glow to it that was more about the soul than a good diet and being well fed from the vein of a loving mate.
“Yes,” he whispered as he continued to stare. “I couldn’t agree more.”
Nadya turned to him, and stepped into his body. As he wrapped his arms around her, he thought about the things he had wanted for himself back in the Old Country, what he had hoped for, what he had dreamed of.
Funny, how all of that had come together in this female.
“I’m going to keep bringing you pebbles,” he said as he stroked the flyaways from her hair tie back. “For the rest of our lives.”
It wasn’t like he had any kind of net worth, so it was never going to be diamonds. But diamonds were just rocks, weren’t they, and to his female, his little stones were just as precious. She told him so every time he presented her with a new one.
“I’m going to cherish each and every one,” she said with a smile.
Just as he leaned down to kiss her again, he saw, standing off to the side, a beautiful pale gray wolf. And the mystical, ghostly animal looked at him and seemed to wink.
Then she lifted her head to the heavens and let out a howl. And as the song of the wolven weaved through the dark night, Kane lowered his mouth to Nadya’s.
And knew that community was a family that was chosen. Whether it was their friends and their mates, the prisoners, or the Black Dagger Brotherhood, they were surrounded by love.
Which made them richer than any amount of money ever could.
Family, after all, was priceless.