River

He wipes blood from his mouth with his bare arms. “I need you to hold still so I don’t feel the need to chase and conquer. Do you understand?””My chances if I run?”I feel his breath on my skin. “None.”I had wondered if I would be strong enough to love Ryder, my stranger from the woods. I learned that I was-still am. But now Ryder, Gunner, and I have a young together, Rain, the Princess of the Guardian Warriors. And a very powerful being, the King of the Shadow Clones, wants her dead. The only time I ever saw King was in the dream where he forced a kiss on me. Yes, I learned I was strong enough to love Ryder, but with a new stranger in the woods, will he be strong enough to love me?Two bloods of one will bring down the shadows, to cast, no more… Rain will grow as river flows. Together…