Chapter 41
They ran from the stream in the direction Dante last saw his brother.
Along the way, they met up with two groups of hunters. The prince protected Cinder and fended off the other hunters.
Cinder was happy to let him. She was still shaken up by the viciousness with which she had fought earlier. Everyone knew the full moon made people do strange and violent things, but she didn’t want to experience that again.
The hunters didn’t put up a fight. They were more interested in finding their own quarry than stealing the prince’s.
Nobles had learned that royalty had a way of remembering all the insults that happened to them, no matter how many years passed. So although the Dark King had commanded the hunters to steal the women that the princes protected, the hunters were timid in th
