Serena looked at Stanton searchingly. "What are you trying to hide from me?"
He wanted to tell her the real reason he couldn't see her anymore, but he was afraid that if he did, she would only try to find a way to fix it.
"I'm not trying to hide anything," he said finally. "Go back to your friends. Stay with your kind where you belong."
"Then why are you here?" she argued. "If you believe what you say, then you should be over at the Dungeon."
"Leave me alone."
She stood there, glaring at him, so darkly beautiful in the broken lights. Why wouldn't
Stanton is in love with Serena. But it is a relationship that can never be. Serena is a Daughter of the Moon, a force of good whose mission is to stop him and his kind. Stanton has been trying to stay away from Serena, but now their secret is out. He will have to choose between the life he has always known and a love that could destroy the person he cares about most.
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The boy's eyes could not adjust to the dark. It was as if he had been blinded in his sleep. He called for the knight who had been charged with gaurding him, but no one answered. Why had his guard allowed the hearth fore to go out? The boy listened. He could no longer hear the urgent voices of his father and the other nknivhgtds in the banqueting hall. Had they left already on their crusade?
Then a strange presence filled the room, and the boy knew he was not alone. He had heard his father and the priests whispering about an ancient evil. He felt his thumb for the ring his father had given him for protection. It was gone. Had it fallen off while he slept? He smoothed his hand under the pillows and down the bedcovers, searching, for the comforting stone and metal.
The door to his room slowly opoened. Ge squinted against the sudden light from the lamp torches in the hallway. A girl stood in the doorframe. She looked more goddess than human, the way her skin seemed to glow.
Abruptly cold air made him turn from her and look up. Threatening shadows gathered above him, whirling into a monstrous form. Then without warning the darkness rushed over him. He screamed for his gaurdian knight, but it was the goddesslike girl who fought through the thickening blackness and rescued him. She held him tight against her and ran. The demon shadow raged after them with a force that shook the castle's stone walls. The girl fell, and the darkness kidnapped the boy.