Enchanting the Alpha (Hex My Heart, #4) by Talina Perkins Read Free Book Online

strength to resist.

CHAPTER SIX
    C aden’s voice was a bare whisper laced with a lusty intent. When he shifted back to human, his eyes remained preternatural. Still crimson with shafts of molten lava with gold specks and fogged over with enough emotion she didn’t need to read the future or be psychic to tell he was all over the place internally.
    Fear easily coiled in her belly, ready to strike out and poison her heart with doubt.
    Not for fear of the man, but of what might become of them. Her actions could tear them apart before they really came together.
    When called to help others, it was part of her as much as her abilities. Couldn’t he see that? That she would be there for him just as much, if he ever needed her. “What’s going on in the beautiful mind of yours, Harmony? What has you so loose-lipped one second and shy the next?”
    She could ask the same.
    He raked a glance over her, not even bothered by his own lack of clothing. Her heartbeat spiked from the shot of lust that filled her system, as if he’d reached out and touched her. Angled toward her, she worshipped his body with as much heat. Blood rushed south and set a blaze so hot in her core he had to feel it too with how his cock hardened in response, the veins thick and the crown swollen with the same need that throbbed against her clit.
    She licked her lips and took a step back to keep from slipping into his embrace and losing herself to the primal need to claim the man. She may not be a shifter, but everything in her screamed to mark him and let the world know he was hers.
    “Everything.” Her mama always said she was too straightforward. She found it helpful, but understood how the truth could sound ugly.
    She continued anyway. “The way you jumped in to protect me like a mate would tonight. The fact the dragons noticed it and said as much. How you abruptly left me after our last all-nighter. And a little tip, sweetheart—don’t you know that hurts a girl?”
    Frown lines formed around his lips.
    “I think it’s all starting to add up, Caden.”A long moment passed and an uneasy silence descended over them.
    He stood there; breathing through his nose, jaw clenched as if he had something to say but didn’t know how. Or maybe, she figured, he had nothing to say after all.
    She angled her head to the side. “Wow, you look so different under the waterfall of moonlight cascading over you. Supernatural. Determined and hurting.” She took a step closer, raised a gentle hand and then took another step until her fingers buried in the unruly lengths of his hair, his hardened length pressed against her abdomen. “I can help you if only you open up and let me in, sweetheart.”
    His frown deepened, but he didn’t turn away from her. In fact, he did the opposite. With three steps he had her pinned against the end of a shelf, pressed between her thighs, just as she loved. With one leg supported around his waist and a firm grip to her upper thigh, she balanced on the other and sweet goddesses, how the delicious pressure against her pussy made her weak in the knees. The thick ridge of his cock pressed into her midriff.
    Subtle, he was not.
    With his free hand braced beside her head, his thigh the only part of his body that touched her, he ran the tip of his nose along the shell of her ear and inhaled. One little touch had her panties soaked.
    It excited and made her crazy all at once. Rattled to the core, she reveled in the feel of him flush against her and melted under the soft murmur of appreciation next to her ear.
    “Exotic and wild, you make me crazy with lust.” His hardness pulsated between them. Breathy, she splayed her palms against this chest.
    “I don’t think you need my permission to follow through, Caden.”
    He anchored one hand on her hip and rocked her over the flexed muscle of his thigh. “But I like to hear it. Tell me, Harmony. Tell me you want me to fuck you long and hard.”
    Her head fell back against the wood and her world