Total pages in book: 124
Estimated words: 112866 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 564(@200wpm)___ 451(@250wpm)___ 376(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 112866 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 564(@200wpm)___ 451(@250wpm)___ 376(@300wpm)
The four of them were nervous as fuck, jumpy even and I’m sure they would’ve bolted had they not wanted to protect the humans. I tried to appear as nonthreatening as possible while taking her in. This close she was still as gorgeous as I remembered, that face that had followed me into my dreams was even more spectacular in the flesh.
“Are you going to go over there uncle?” Vespasian asked in a quiet whisper as he disobeyed me and looked towards the table of women. I guess it was a bit much to ask seeing as all the women were gorgeous, but none more so than mine.
“I’m thinking about it.” Just then the waitress came over to take our orders and I absently ordered a steak and fries while staring across the room at her. I saw recognition enter her eyes and wondered how long she’d been seeing me in her dreams.
I wish someone had done me the courtesy of doing the same, maybe then I wouldn’t have been caught so off guard. Our gazes locked for the barest of seconds but it was enough. I knew that she knew and the look of panic on her face as well as the others here with her told me all I needed to know. She hadn’t known!
I called out to her in my mind, knowing that only she could hear me, testing the strength of the bond. When my kind imprint we form a special connection with our chosen mate, a kind of frequency if you will that no one else can hear. That’s why I heard her whispered ‘no’ in my head. ‘Yes!’
‘Look at me!’ When her gaze turned back to mine on my command I knew then that there was no mistake. I almost felt sorry for her, for what she must endure in the next few days. What I was going to do to her. She looked tiny as fuck. Too small to take a man like me.
My cock didn’t care, he’d been sniffing the air ever since I walked in. I see now why the others were here. It was taking all my strength not to fly across the room and take her out of here. Just like it was as I stood at the edge of the water my mind was filled with visions of taking her. ‘Soon!’
I sent out the message and watched her jump in her seat as a look of sheer terror entered her eyes. I only meant to calm her, to touch her mind gently as a way of reassuring her that I wouldn’t harm her but I think I went too far. It was just a small taste of my essence, something akin to running my hand caressingly over her hair, but she acted like I’d just driven my fingers into her.
I was halfway out my seat when her back arched and the light in her eyes changed. I knew there was going to be trouble when her nymph smirked at me. Oh shit! What the fuck is she doing?
Natalia
Someone walked through the door of the little restaurant and all my senses went on high alert. Whoever it was had somehow sent my system into a tailspin. Not human! The thought made me look up in haste just as my sisters turned to the door as well as if they too had felt the invasive presence.
At first glance I got the shock of my life and almost fell from the seat of my chair. It’s him, I’d know that face anywhere and this feeling, it’s the same one I’d felt earlier this morning in the woods only a lot more intense. Had it been him out there watching, waiting?
For a split second his shield shifted or he dropped it intentionally and I had to force myself to remain seated and not jump up from the chair and make a run for it. I was aware of my sisters doing the same as the four of us tracked his every move. Like prey in the presence of a known predator.
And his presence was greater than most. It wasn’t just his enigmatic good looks, that wild mane of dark hair and those eyes that seemed to shift from turquoise to green. Or his body that seemed to dance as he moved. Neither was it his massive height of about six seven that kept every eye in the room on him, both male and female. It was his very essence that drew the eye and made it hard to look away.
As he walked across the room it was obvious why he’d been shielding himself in the woods, why he went to such great lengths, he had good reason. He wasn’t doing much to hide now, and neither were the others who joined him. It had only taken that small slip as he walked in to give me a glimpse into what he is.