A Dangerous Demon King (The Sentinel Demons Book 4) by J. S. Scott Read Free Book Online

into his very soul so no one could ever touch her again.
    It made him crazy when he felt her answering need as her arms went around him, her tongue pushing back in an attempt to feel closer to him.
    Closer. More. More.
    He flipped her onto her back, trapping her beneath him, letting out a growl of satisfaction that she purred her approval and threaded her hands in his hair.
    Both of them needed the same thing right now, their minds focused on one objective: for them to somehow merge. Kristoff was downright obsessed with the compulsion.
    “Kristoff! For God’s sake, let the poor girl go,” Athena spoke as she stepped forward and removed Sophie from his grasp.
    Closing his eyes because the pain of having Sophie so close, then separated from him was so damn painful, he let out a snarl of disapproval. He was panting from the deprivation of what he needed, what he wanted.
    When he opened his eyes, the only thing he saw was his… radiant . Athena was standing next to her beside the bed, but Kristoff’s eyes were riveted on nothing but Sophie.
    His possessive instincts hit him hard even as he felt his soul grow slightly lighter as a small part of her soul drifted into his, and a minimal amount of darkness entered hers.
    Covetous, greedy instincts slammed through him in that instant, and it was even worse than it had been a few minutes ago. Probably because he’d finally realized what Sophie was to him.
    He grunted, the sound low and dangerous as it sprang from his throat. “Mine!”
    Athena stepped forward and pushed him back onto his pillow. “She’s an innocent, Kristoff, taken by Evils when she was a child. I know this is going to be difficult, but you can’t just take what you want right now.”
    Oh yeah, he could. He needed to, and Sophie needed it, too. But he struggled to contain his demon instincts, concerned that he might alarm his mate. He was being driven by animal instincts, and he somehow needed to pull himself together.
    His amber eyes slowly returned to a silvery blue as he stared at Athena angrily because she was blocking his vision of what belonged to him. “She’s my radiant ,” he rasped, barely able to believe that he’d finally found his mate.
    And Christ! It was as painful as it was surreal. Her light warmed him, but the need to make her his was nearly killing him.
    His Sophie was beautiful, her long dark hair and chocolate-brown eyes mesmerizing him for the brief moment as their gazes met and held.
    “He looks worse off than any of us ever were,” Zach observed from his position closer to the door with the rest of the Winston crowd. “But I don’t think I like seeing him manhandle my sister.”
    Kat elbowed Zach in the stomach. “You have no room to talk. As I recall, you “manhandled” me plenty. And it’s obvious that Kristoff is hurting. When have we ever seen him like this? He doesn’t have fits of anger, and he never loses control. He has to be in pain.”
    “He is,” Athena informed them in a somber voice. “He’s a demon king, the first of your kind. He’s been without his mate for thousands of years. Take what you all felt and multiply it by a thousand.”
    “Shit!”
    “Christ!”
    “No way!”
    Athena nodded her head. “That’s what he’s feeling right now.”
    The three Winston brothers were all shaking their heads and shooting Kristoff a sympathetic glance.
    Zach stepped forward and put his arm around Sophie. “I won’t tolerate him hurting my sister.”
    “She’s Zach’s sister?” both Talia and Kat asked in unison.
    “She is,” Drew affirmed. “Zach and I will catch you and Talia up on things later.”
    Athena turned and shot Zach an irritated look. “He’d die before he’d intentionally harm her. You know that.”
    “But unintentionally?” Zach pushed.
    “I’m more afraid his intensity will frighten her,” Athena admitted.
    “I’m not afraid,” Sophie said forcefully, pushing her way in front of Athena. “I feel him. For some reason we’re