Forbidden, Tempted Series (Book 1) by Selene Charles Read Free Book Online Page B

You know I’d know. I like her. She’s clumsy. Human. Normal. And God knows I need some of that right about now.” Holding her chin high, her entire body began to tremble.
    But not with fear, with the beating of her monster coming to life like a slumbering dragon flexing its wings.
    He didn’t know what, but the girl had a way about her. If she was capable of turning a kanlungan into a pussycat, he had to find out who she was. And if she was what he thought she might be... he’d destroy her.
    Cain turned on his heel, marching toward the big top.
    “Cain, stop.” Janet tugged on his arm.
    She might be a monster, but so was he. He shook her off.
    “Her dad came for the job.” Janet jumped in front of him, punching his chest with her flat palms, pleading with her eyes for him to stop. “It’s not like that, Cain. Adam’s talking with him now. It’s legit, Cain. This is none of your business—leave it.”
    He shoved his face into hers, letting his poison leak into his eyes, knowing they now glowed an eerie shade of crimson red. “This is my business, you’re all my business. Why are you fighting to protect something you don’t even know? This is how we get hurt, Ja, trusting. I won’t make that mistake,” he snarled, ignoring the hurt gleam in her eyes.
    Whipping around, he followed the scent of lilac and lavender.
    Each step ratcheted up his pulse. Dizzy with the scent of her, he threw the flaps aside. Janet continued to plead with him to listen. But he was past listening. They all knew better. They’d been down this road before. Never trust what you didn’t know.
    Her smell was everywhere. That crazy sick feeling beat at his chest, his throat. Then he looked up and a haze of red swept his gaze.
    She was running, hair whipping behind her slim shoulders, a look of pure joy radiating from her face.
    His muscles throbbed, pulsed with an angry shot of power.
    She must have realized she wasn’t alone. Flint turned toward him, her mouth dropping open for a second. And then she was falling.
    There was a net, but a roar—primal and feral—ripped from his throat and he ran.

Chapter 5
    H ands yanked on her arms, making her squeal as a bright bolt of pain flared through her shoulders.
    “Why are you here?”
    Dizzy, a scream still trapped in her throat, all she could do was stare at Cain with a mixture of shock and terror. How had he grabbed her? One second she was falling into the net, legs braced to her chest to absorb the impact, and the next she was plastered against a chest that felt as hard as rock, staring into a face that looked like he wanted to rip her limb from limb.
    But the violence lurking on his face was second to the fact that he actually had his glasses off, the eyes she’d been so obsessed with earlier now glowed back at her.
    Deep, bloody red.
    She sucked in a breath, words lost to her as she lost herself to the chaotic rhythm of those swirling eyes.
    Flint wasn’t good at science, pretty much hated it with a passion. But she remembered a video she’d watched once. When Earth was first forming and how the world was nothing but sea and lava. Looking in his eyes was like seeing the beginning of time.
    “Answer me!” He shook her harder.
    “Contacts?” she breathed, wondering if she’d really said that out loud. It had to be contacts. Nobody had red eyes. Especially not swirling red eyes.
    He narrowed them, and he had thick brows—perfect thick brows that sloped along the graceful lines of those crazy-colored eyes. Her fingers clenched.
    Cain looked confused, his hand shifting slightly down her bicep, gripping the muscle, sending a hot shiver to race like wildfire through her blood.
    How sick was it that all she could think about was the rough texture of his palm on her naked arms? How his heat literally seemed to leak straight into her pores, warming her from the inside out?
    Slowly it dawned on her that she’d better answer or he’d probably try to shake her head off her neck. Gnashing