When a Moth Loved a Bee

When a Moth Loved a Bee by New York Times Bestseller Pepper Winters –––––––– When a Moth Loved a Bee Copyright © 2023 Pepper Winters Published by Pepper Winters All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form, including electronic or mechanical, without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. 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Published: Pepper Winters 2023: [email protected] Cover Design: Cleo Studios Editing by: Editing 4 Indies (Jenny Sims) Contents OTHER WORK BY PEPPER WINTERS Dedication Letter from the Author Blurb Map Prologue Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven Chapter Twelve Chapter Thirteen Chapter Fourteen Chapter Fifteen Chapter Sixteen Chapter Seventeen Chapter Eighteen Chapter Nineteen Chapter Twenty Chapter Twenty-One Chapter Twenty-Two Chapter Twenty-Three Chapter Twenty-Four Chapter Twenty-Five Chapter Twenty-Six Chapter Twenty-Seven Chapter Twenty-Eight Chapter Twenty-Nine Chapter Thirty Chapter Thirty-One Chapter Thirty-Two Chapter Thirty-Three Chapter Thirty-Four Chapter Thirty-Five Chapter Thirty-Six Chapter Thirty-Seven Chapter Thirty-Eight Chapter Thirty-Nine Chapter Forty Chapter Forty-One Chapter Forty-Two Chapter Forty-Three Chapter Forty-Four Chapter Forty-Five Chapter Forty-Six Chapter Forty-Seven Chapter Forty-Eight Chapter Forty-Nine Chapter Fifty Chapter Fifty-One Chapter Fifty-Two Chapter Fifty-Three Chapter Fifty-Four Chapter Fifty-Five Chapter Fifty-Six Chapter Fifty-Seven Preorder & read the first Two Chapters of Book Two Free Books Other Upcoming Titles... OTHER WORK BY PEPPER WINTERS PLAYLIST ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OTHER WORK BY PEPPER WINTERS –––––––– Pepper currently has close to forty books released in nine languages. She’s hit best-seller lists (USA Today, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal) almost forty times. She dabbles in multiple genres, ranging from Dark Romance, Coming of Age, Fantasy, and Romantic Suspense. She has won awards for best Dark Romance and is a #1 Apple Books Bestseller. For books, FAQs, and buylinks please visit: https://pepperwinters.com Subscribe to her Newsletter by clicking here or following QR code To grab three of Pepper’s books for free (Tears of Tess, Pennies, and Debt Inheritance) Please CLICK HERE or use the QR code –––––––– SOCIAL MEDIA & WEBSITE Facebook: Peppers Books Instagram: @pepperwinters Facebook Group: Peppers Playgound Website: www.pepperwinters.com Tiktok: @pepperwintersbooks Dedication Can I dedicate this to a rabbit? Because I’m going to. To Mo. My fluffy muse who always seems to know when I’m writing those kissing scenes. Letter from the Author –––––––– The world you’re about to enter is vast and full of complexities. It is a work of fiction and is based solely on the imagination from the author. Inspiration has been gathered from fantastical worlds, elements, and the firm belief that we are all magical...mortal or otherwise. There are darker themes and explicit content. For Content Warnings please see the tab on Pepper’s website (www.pepperwinters.com) All races, creeds, cultures, ceremonies, and lifestyles are purely fictional along with the chimeric animals that the author wishes were truly real! Thank you so much for reading this Fantasy Romance! Blurb –––––––– “It’s taking everything I have not to touch you. Not because I want to make you mine but because every part of me screams that you already are.” A pack of wolves hunt a girl who takes her last breath by a river’s edge. She is found and nursed back to health by the kind-hearted Nhil people. She has no memory. No past. And is given a choice that could change her forgotten life forever. A pack of wolves adopt a man who begs for death in the grasslands. Blood revives him. Flesh Map Prologue –––––––– . The Stranger . –––––––– THE HEART. A simple organ. A vital instrument in keeping mortal flesh alive. To pump blood. To give life. To keep bone and breath from returning to ash and memory. But that is not it’s true purpose. I wished I’d remembered that when I found her. I wished I’d remembered that the pounding in my chest wasn’t from a simple organ, striving to keep my fragile, feeble form alive, but the quintessential pathway back home. Back to who I was, what I was. Back to every memory