Bound by the Moon (The Ancients Series Book 4) Read Online Free

Mikael’s accents were much more muted. Apparently, when Antoine was alive, he made them practice for hours a day to sound as though they were American. He had been planning on sending his boys to rule the roost over here long before they discovered I was alive and coming into my power.
    It still took a little getting used to that Evan now had a mate of his own now. I didn’t think of him in any romantic way anymore, but it was still odd seeing him so at ease with another soul. Those two were truly meant for one another.
    “Yeah, well, where there’s a pretty girl, boys will always find a way. Isn’t that right?” I looked up at Evan whose cheeks turned red at the reminder of how he had marked me when we first met.
    Evan cleared his throat and decided it was time to change the subject while everyone laughed at his expense. “So, where is my lovely little Niece anyway?”
    Mikael had already walked over to the bassinet and picked her up. “She’s right here. My little sleeping beauty…” Seeing Mikael melt every time he held our daughter would never get old. I just smiled over at them as Evan reached to take hold of her.
    “She’s gorgeous! Thank the wolf spirits that she looks like her mother.” Evan announced amid laughter.
    “I have to agree with you there,” Mikael started, “although if she was sporting my whiskers maybe I wouldn’t have trouble keeping the boys away later.”
    “Mikael!” I yelled in mock-outrage. “You will not wish whiskers upon my child, unless she has completed the change and is in wolf form.”
    “Yes, ma’am.” He bowed slightly towards me while Evan made the sound of a cracking whip. “Yeah, well, I’m okay with being whipped, brother.” After seeing Natalia walk up, and peer around his arm at the baby, Mikael added, “Looks like I’m not the only one.” Evan just shrugged his shoulders and grinned.
    “I can’t believe how tiny she is.” He whispered to no one in particular. “It’s crazy, I feel like I might break her if I breath too hard.”
    “Well, do try not to do that. I’d hate to have to kill you today.” Mikael said through his laughter.
    “May I?” Natalia asked, as she approached Evan and Willow.
    “Of course.” I smiled at her as she took Willow in her arms.
    “She truly is beautiful.” Natalia offered. Then she began to chant in an angelic voice.
    “Lumina sa straluceasca in jos
    Si sa binecuvanteze acest copil
    Un viitor luminous, cu bucurie si rasete
    Poate spiritele luminare uita mereu dupa
    Si sa binecuveanteze acest copil frumos.”
    By the time she got to the end of whatever she was chanting. There was a warm white light surrounding both her and my baby. I panicked, and snatched Willow from her immediately. “What the hell are you doing?” I looked Willow over to make certain she was still okay. “What the hell were you doing to my baby? What was that light?”
    “Jess, calm down.” Evan stated.
    “What the hell was that, Evan?” Mikael asked.
    “WHAT DID YOU DO?” I screamed at Natalia.
    “I’m sorry,” she apologized in her thick Romanian accent. “It was a blessing. Nothing more.”
    “Nothing more?” I questioned. “There was light around the both of you.” Natalia looked startled by what I said, and now she looked just as panicked as I felt. That did nothing to calm my nerves. I turned to Evan then and demanded, “explain this!”
    “Let’s all calm down a little bit, first.” Mikael offered, which surprised me. “Jess, she gave a typical lunar blessing to Willow. It’s one that is given to all the babies that are born to our people. At least, it’s the blessing our pack always gave to babies when they were born. I’ve said it to her myself since she was born.”
    “I never heard you.”
    “Probably because I say it to her when I’m up with her while I let you sleep. Really, the words were all the same. Roughly translated, it is: The light shine down and bless this babe. A future bright with joy and