Frozen Desires (Asylums for Magical Threats) by Jessie Donovan Read Free Book Online Page A
Authors: Jessie Donovan
Tags: FICTION / Romance / Paranormal, Camilla Melini is a high-ranking soldier with an organization fighting to free elemental magic users. Her latest assignment is to find one of the legendary elemental Four Talents, and she’s determined to get in and out of Mexico as quickly as possible to avoid running into the man who nearly destroyed her life. But when the dangerous man from her past finds her, Cam must work with Marco Alvarez, a man she’d dismissed as a playboy, to prevent the the powerful magic of the Talents from falling into the wrong hands. She never expected the charming playboy to be a cunning warrior worthy of her heart...
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out of people.” He leaned his head around further until it was facing her, his lips a scant few inches away
from hers. “You’re the only one who seems immune.”
His dark chocolate eyes were heavy lidded, and between the heat of his body and his spicy male scent,
Cam’s pulse sped up. This was a man used to getting what he wanted.
Then she remembered the rumors of Marco’s conquests. She would not be one of them.
She cleared her throat and got her heart rate under control. “The simple answer is that I just don’t trust you. I’ve been burned in the past, and with something as important as finding the Talents, I’m trying to
avoid any risk that might cause me to fail.”
His leg brushed the back of hers, but Cam was no longer under the spell of his magnetism. She kept her
posture stiff and unresponsive, hoping he’d take the hint and leave.
Unfortunately, it didn’t work and, if anything, he leaned in closer than before. “Then give me a trial
period, or some kind of test. If I deliver and prove myself, you promise to stop fighting me at every turn and allow me to help you. If I fail, you can tell me to fuck off and I’ll comply.”
She was tempted, but she didn’t want to make a decision like this lightly.
The sound of a giggling couple drew closer and she poked Marco’s arm with a claw. “People are
coming, and if they notice the ice around my feet, they’ll ask too many questions. You need to melt the ice.
Now.”
“Not until you give me an answer.”
As they stared at one another, the giggling drew closer. Cam couldn’t afford to be caught with a first-
born right now, leaving her only a few seconds to decide what to do.
He did know the language and probably had more contacts in this part of the world than she did.
Playing a clueless tourist only went so far. If she did find something inside the observatory later tonight, the clue could lead her anywhere, maybe even to a remote village deep in the jungle. DEFEND had an extensive
web of contacts, but she knew little about their reputations outside of the US or Europe. In the ever-
changing Feiru world of political allegiances, too many former trusted allies could be acting as double agents.
Her boss, Neena, was one of the few people Cam trusted with her life, and while she hadn’t fully
endorsed Marco, she hadn’t warned Cam to stay away either.
The giggling people would see them any second, so she decided to trust Neena on the issue of Marco, at
least for now. “Fine, I’ll give you a series of tests. Now, hurry up and release me.”
Marco laid a hand on her lower back, sending a jolt through her body at the contact, and the ice melted
away. He leaned in close and whispered. “Pretend that you adore me for the next thirty seconds.”
Marco had made a mistake.
It wasn’t the fact that Cam was still resisting him, or that he’d had to use his elemental magic in public.
No, his mistake had been donning his fake playboy routine. Because trying to be suave and charming
around Cam had forced him to touch her again, to lean in and smell the wildness of the jungle mixed with
her own womanly scent, to notice the way her shirt clung to her breasts. In other words, he was starting to notice her more as a woman than a fellow DEFEND soldier.
Attachments were dangerous enough for someone like him, with a secret to hide, but on top of that, she
wasn’t just any soldier—she was one of the few who would never see him as anything more than a young,
smooth-talking recruit.
However, he’d been out of options when he’d heard the giggling couple approach, leaving him with the
choice of either letting Cam run away from him or pulling her up against his side and treating her as his
lover. Getting her to stay put and actually talk to him was difficult, and he needed to know exactly what sort of “tests” she had in mind for him, so he decided to go with the latter option.
He moved his hand from Cam’s
out of people.” He leaned his head around further until it was facing her, his lips a scant few inches away
from hers. “You’re the only one who seems immune.”
His dark chocolate eyes were heavy lidded, and between the heat of his body and his spicy male scent,
Cam’s pulse sped up. This was a man used to getting what he wanted.
Then she remembered the rumors of Marco’s conquests. She would not be one of them.
She cleared her throat and got her heart rate under control. “The simple answer is that I just don’t trust you. I’ve been burned in the past, and with something as important as finding the Talents, I’m trying to
avoid any risk that might cause me to fail.”
His leg brushed the back of hers, but Cam was no longer under the spell of his magnetism. She kept her
posture stiff and unresponsive, hoping he’d take the hint and leave.
Unfortunately, it didn’t work and, if anything, he leaned in closer than before. “Then give me a trial
period, or some kind of test. If I deliver and prove myself, you promise to stop fighting me at every turn and allow me to help you. If I fail, you can tell me to fuck off and I’ll comply.”
She was tempted, but she didn’t want to make a decision like this lightly.
The sound of a giggling couple drew closer and she poked Marco’s arm with a claw. “People are
coming, and if they notice the ice around my feet, they’ll ask too many questions. You need to melt the ice.
Now.”
“Not until you give me an answer.”
As they stared at one another, the giggling drew closer. Cam couldn’t afford to be caught with a first-
born right now, leaving her only a few seconds to decide what to do.
He did know the language and probably had more contacts in this part of the world than she did.
Playing a clueless tourist only went so far. If she did find something inside the observatory later tonight, the clue could lead her anywhere, maybe even to a remote village deep in the jungle. DEFEND had an extensive
web of contacts, but she knew little about their reputations outside of the US or Europe. In the ever-
changing Feiru world of political allegiances, too many former trusted allies could be acting as double agents.
Her boss, Neena, was one of the few people Cam trusted with her life, and while she hadn’t fully
endorsed Marco, she hadn’t warned Cam to stay away either.
The giggling people would see them any second, so she decided to trust Neena on the issue of Marco, at
least for now. “Fine, I’ll give you a series of tests. Now, hurry up and release me.”
Marco laid a hand on her lower back, sending a jolt through her body at the contact, and the ice melted
away. He leaned in close and whispered. “Pretend that you adore me for the next thirty seconds.”
Marco had made a mistake.
It wasn’t the fact that Cam was still resisting him, or that he’d had to use his elemental magic in public.
No, his mistake had been donning his fake playboy routine. Because trying to be suave and charming
around Cam had forced him to touch her again, to lean in and smell the wildness of the jungle mixed with
her own womanly scent, to notice the way her shirt clung to her breasts. In other words, he was starting to notice her more as a woman than a fellow DEFEND soldier.
Attachments were dangerous enough for someone like him, with a secret to hide, but on top of that, she
wasn’t just any soldier—she was one of the few who would never see him as anything more than a young,
smooth-talking recruit.
However, he’d been out of options when he’d heard the giggling couple approach, leaving him with the
choice of either letting Cam run away from him or pulling her up against his side and treating her as his
lover. Getting her to stay put and actually talk to him was difficult, and he needed to know exactly what sort of “tests” she had in mind for him, so he decided to go with the latter option.
He moved his hand from Cam’s
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