The Blood Moon by Amber Riel (reading strategies book .TXT) 📖

a cave and stay there,” Millie told him. “I’m going to lure Christina and whoever she got to work for her.... Kat.”
“Kat wouldn’t do that,” Champ disagreed.
“She’s a cat shape-shifter, she’ll do whatever she can to stop us,” Millie told him. She walked away from them as Jock went to find a cave to hang out in until it was time for him to reveal himself.


Millie sniffed the air and she could since fear. She looked and noticed that Kat was walking toward her and she knew instantly what Kat had done. “Of course,” she said, stopping Kat in her tracks. “All cats fear dogs.... Especially if the cat betrayed the dog.”
Kat slowly turned to face Millie. Her heart was pounding fast. She knew then that Millie knew what she had done. “I don’t know what you’re talking about,” she tried to lie.
“Yes you do. It seems like Champ was wrong and I was right. You would betray us.”
Kat pulled out the whistle from her pocket and went to blow into it, but Millie had attacked her. They started fighting each other.
Christina had shown up to watch the fight. She folded her arms. “I’ve never watched a real dog and cat fight before,” she told herself. “GO AHEAD AND KILL HER, MILLIE! I DON’T NEED TO DEAL WITH A CAT! BESIDES.... I’M MORE OF A DOG PERSON ANYWAYS!”
Millie and Kat had pushed each other back. Kat had fell into the snow, but Millie had hit a wall.
“You want her to kill me?” Kat asked, confused.
Christina thought before she answered. “Yea.”
Kat had realized that she was on the wrong side. She held up the whistle and broke it in half.
“I do have another one.... So I don’t care.”
Millie forced herself up. She rolled her head to crack her neck. “You want control, Christina. Then follow me.” She ran back toward the woods and Christina followed.


Christina had to laugh. Millie had led her to the pack. “You’re a dumb wolf. You led me to your pack.”
“You.... Millie, why did you bring her here?” Kyle asked.
“Yea,” Champ agreed.
Christina pulled out her whistle and went to blow into it.
The sun was setting and the wolves were almost to their full lycan forms.
“Stop,” Millie told Christina.
“Why?”
“Because,” Millie said as she looked at Champ and Kyle and she kind of nodded to them, “I’ll make a deal with you.”
“What?”
“If you let my pack leave, then I’ll promise to be your servant.”
“NO!” Shawn exclaimed. “Millie, you can’t.”
“Shawn, you’re in charge of the pack now.”
“Okay,” Christina smiled. She held the whistle out and looked at the sky and noticed that the moon was blood red. “My servant, I want....”
The wolves were now in their full wolf forms.
“You to....”
A bat flew by and snatched the whistle from Christina. Christina turned around and the bat turned into a vampire.
“Millie,” Jock said, “you can attack now.”
“I know.... Everyone attack.”
Christina turned to face them. She was out numbered. The pack had jumped her. They bit and clawed her until she was no more. Jock just watched. He knew better then to jump in while a pack of werewolves were feasting. Christina’s spirit had flew into the whistle and Jock threw it down. Tom's Surprise to the Pack

Tom had the four boys in his small, black truck, while Jane followed him in her little, red car with the three girls. They drove into the woods and all of the wolves seen a beautiful, two story, white house where the cottage use to stand. They parked the cars and everyone climbed out.
Stina and Wagner ran to the door. They couldn’t wait to get inside.
Millie stood next to Jane’s car and looked at the new cottage. “You didn’t have to do that,” she told Tom. She wanted to cry.
“Everyone deserves a place to stay,” Tom replied.
“Thanks, Tom,” Kyle said.
“No problem. Here’s the key,” he said as he handed it to Kyle.


Champ walked into the town and found Kat sitting on a park bench. He noticed some bruises and figured that Millie was the reason for them. “Kat, can we start dating again.... I didn’t dump you on purpose. I dumped you too protect you.”
Kat stood up and gave Champ a hug. She started crying. “I know.... And yes.... I missed you so much.”
“Do you want to get something to eat?”
Kat nodded.
                                    ******
Millie and Lacy had walked to Jean’s house. They were there to get their things. “Thanks again for letting us stay,” Lacy told Jean.
“No problem.” Jean and Lacy hugged. Jean went to hug Millie but decided that it was probably a better idea not to.

Millie's Mail

A day later, a fifteen-year-old boy with short, dark hair knocked on the door. He was dressed like a messenger from the medieval times and he was really dirty. He had a book bag around him and he was holding a letter.
Lacy had opened the door. “Hi, Mark. How are you?”
“I’m good, Lacy. How are you?”
“I’m good too.”
“This is for Millie. Is she here?”
“No. She’s at the bookstore but I’ll make sure she gets it. Okay.” She smiled at the boy.
“Okay.” Mark handed her the letter then left.
Lacy closed the door and turned back to go to the kitchen as Shawn walked down the stairs.
“Who was that?”
“It was Mark.”
“Oh.” He noticed the letter in Lacy’s hand. “What’s that?”
“It’s a letter for Millie,” Lacy answered as she read the envelope. “It’s from the wolf council.”
“Ooo.... READ IT!”
“It’s Millie’s. I’m not going to read her mail.”
“Oh come on.”
“No.... It’s not mine.... It’s her privacy.... We don’t need to read it.”
“Yea.... Like how much you want to marry Lee.”
“You’ve read my dairy.”
“No,” Shawn lied, taking the letter. “She won’t know, okay. We won’t tell her.”
“Fine.”
Shawn gave the letter back to Lacy and she opened it. When she held the letter in her hand, they both read what was written to themselves then they looked at each other.
“I wonder what they're holding a meeting for? You don’t think....”
“No. It can’t be.”
The End

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Text: Amber Riel
Images: Amber Riel
Publication Date: 08-04-2013

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Dedication:
For everyone who believes that there's good in everyone & everything