Dark Caress (The Fallen) by Tatum Throne Read Free Book Online

“What kind of offer?”
    “I would like to have you as my lover.”
    “Why would a Fallen want a woman like me?”
    His gray eyes focused on her in quiet contemplation. “I like what I see.”
    He paced to a rose bush and snapped off a bloom in gentle appreciation. She watched as he brought the bloom to his nose. Lust zipped through her pussy when she saw his lips caress the petals. The response was swift and quick between her thighs. Her core clenched, and her pussy lips wet. Amber fought for control of her body’s response. How was he doing this to her without even touching her?
    “Stop it!”
    Their gazes locked. “Is that what you really want?”
    Flutters rippled over her sex . She couldn’t block the need to release. A moan slipped past her lips as her pussy contracted hard. “Yes.”
    “I don’t think you want me to stop,” he said. “I know you don’t have a lover. You haven’t had one for a long time.”
    Amber knew she had trouble keeping a man. They tended not to like the fact that the female in the relationship was a cop. Men just didn’t like dating cops. They were afraid to go out for a drink for fear of her arresting them for DUI.
    “I have had many lovers over the years,” she lied.
    “I know you don’t.”
    How could she begin to tell him or anyone about the slave tattoos warning all men to stay away? By all accounts, she was damaged goods.
    “I choose not to be with men,” she said.
    “ Are you afraid to love?”
    “No. I just chose not to.”
    She could love. She just didn’t want to put her heart out there. She wasn’t a heartless woman. It was just too hard to put herself out there when she was damaged. He continued to mentally manipulate her sex. Amber felt her panties wet as her pussy pulsated. She closed her eyes and bit her lip, trying to keep from coming. Things intensified when her eyes closed. She could feel flutters ripple over her clit that felt so much like the tongue lashing he had given her last night.
    “Kane. Oh, I’m so close.”
    “I like keeping you on the edge.”
    Amber’s gaze flared as he teased her clit with gentle strokes of his mind. “What do you want of me?”
    “You’re Elemental. You’ve made a vow to love. I want you to love me.”
    An Elemental’s vows were their guide. Some led their lives by vows that were sexual in nature but not all. Most would want to know which element she could control. She suspected that he didn’t know she could manipulate water.
    “What do you know of an Elemental’s vows?”
    “I know more than you think. I know that an Elemental takes three vows when their powers blossom and that the ceremony is rich with your Elemental history. I know that as you grow more powerful, you take on more vows.”
    Amber turned away as the past came slamming back. She didn’t want to ever forget. Tears misted her eyes. “My grandmother...”
    White ceremonial candles were lit in circle around Amber’s bare feet. Her white tunic came down to her knees and blew gently with the wind. Her grandmother stood outside of the circle saying the prayer of nature. She dipped her hands in water, sprinkling the water into the circle as Amber declared her vows.
    “I take the vow to love, the vow of tranquility, the vow of seduction.”
    Amber kneeled within the circle, brushing her fingers over the grass turning the water into ice. The ice caught the dewy grass, spreading beyond the circle. Her grandmother kneeled down before her. They were mirror images, one older and one younger. Her grandmother reached out and caressed her cheeks.
    “You will be the one to bring peace to our kind and the Fallen.”
    Amber awakened on a gasp. She had forgotten her grandmother’s words.
    “Amber?”
    “I had forgotten.”
    “It’s easy to forget what we are called to do.”
    She shivered at the way his gaze went from the top of her head to her feet. It was no secret that Kane was an experienced male.
    “I don’t have much time. I have to get to