Circe's Recruits 1: Roane by Marie Harte Read Free Book Online Page A

added with a smile. “You’re too arrogant and too horny. And if you look at Kelly the way you look at Caitlyn, I’m going to rip off your balls --”
    “And feed them to you one by one,” Ace ended, smiling though his suddenly sharp teeth.
    Doc sighed. “This is getting ugly.”
    “It’s too many damned females around,” Derrick muttered. “They’re always trouble.”
    “That I agree with.” Hale nodded.
    “The addition of a female Circ is bound to cause problems,” Doc said thoughtfully.
    “And interesting dynamics. I want the five of you in Lab A first thing in the morning. No arguments.”
    The men groaned but agreed. Doc called the shots. The head man at his little “compound,” his money paid for their survival and the roof over their heads. Granted, they fulfilled their end of things by dealing with Pearson Labs and their misfits, but without Doc, it’d be a hell of a lot harder to pool their resources while fighting against Elliot Pearl.
    “Yeah, yeah.” Roane stood and stretched, deliberately taking his time. A man in control of his beast and his urges. “I’m turning in. I’ll see you idiots tomorrow.”
    “That’s Mr. Idiot to you,” Hale joked. “Later, Romeo.” Roane flipped him and the others off as they gave him crap about going to sleep early.
    He walked down the hall to his room. Opposite the passage leading to the elevator shaft, his room was in another wing on the ground floor of the three-storied living quarters.
    Doc had spared no expense when building his small fortress. They lived on thirty acres of private land bordered by two farms. A half hour from the ocean, they also had water access should they need an escape route. In the years they’d lived here, they’d made a home for themselves. Despite dealing with Hale’s rabid sex life, Zack and Ace as they irritated the hell out of one another, and Derrick’s cautious approach to anything resembling trust, Roane didn’t want to be anywhere else. Here he had purpose. A family.
    He didn’t even mind Doc’s constant prodding. The man had more of Roane’s blood in bags and vials than Roane had in his entire body, but he knew Doc only wanted the best for the squad. Shit, if it weren’t for Doc, they probably wouldn’t have lived through the hell at the end of Project Dawn.
    Uncomfortable with the notion, Roane was just about to slam the door shut on his bedroom and his thoughts when the notion to see Caitlyn grabbed him and wouldn’t let go.
    The minute he rounded the corner toward her hallway the scent of heaven hit his nose.
    He immediately raced toward Caitlyn, sure he’d have to fight off the others, only to see her standing alone with Kelly in the doorway of her room. Her eyes widened when she noticed him, but other than that, she said nothing to alert Kelly to his presence.
    “If you need me, I’ll be staying down the hall tonight. Third door on your left past the bathroom. It’s not that confusing, really,” Kelly said with a laugh. “Five rooms total in this hallway. Doc practically lives down in his lab. So I’m the only other one who occupies a room here when necessary. The guys are all by themselves around the corner and down another corridor. Just holler if you need me.”
    “Thanks, Kelly. I will.”
    Kelly turned to rejoin the others, he assumed. She grinned when she saw him but said nothing and left.
    Roane lifted his nose in the air and parted his lips to use all of his olfactory senses. He tasted Caitlyn’s need, yet he remained in control of the change. An odd happenstance, yet she hadn’t changed either, and the others hadn’t seemed to sense her. What the hell was this puzzle? And why did he feel compelled to solve it?
    “Hi, Roane.”

    He approached slowly, stalking his prey. She didn’t move, though her hands clenched at her sides. Still normal fingernails and small hands, no claws, no large fists.
    “Caitlyn.” Up close she smelled like…his. His cock swelled as her scent settled