It's a Charmed Life by Selene Charles

Author:Selene Charles
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: SeleneCharlesPublishing
Published: 2018-04-29T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Constable Maddox

He sensed the difference in her immediately. Gone was the weakness. Her steps were sure and confident, just as they’d been the first night she’d come to him.

Her shift from siren to human was seamless, and he feasted upon her luscious curves as she dressed. It’d been ages since he’d lain with another, not for many months. But not since he and Alice had he actually felt anything other than carnal lust.

Her shirt was a deep, shimmering coral this time, and it contrasted prettily with her unusually electric-blue hair. Her eyes gleamed, and her skin sparkled with a pearlescent sheen.

She wasn’t just beautiful. She was breathtaking.

She wore no boots or pants, only the shirt. Her long legs were naked and on full display. Sirens weren’t a modest bunch, but then, their sole reason for being was to lure in the unsuspecting.

And yet he didn’t fear her. Not that she wasn’t terrifying. He’d seen her at her lowest and in her most terrifying form. But even then, he’d sensed a great effort from her not to give in completely. If she’d wanted, she could have eviscerated him on the spot.

The wind brushed through the long strands of her hair, but she stared out at her waters with her long legs crossed at the ankles and her chin resting on her knees.

She looked lost. Alone.

He blinked. “I’m a father,” he said, not sure why he’d admitted that to her. He never talked of his past, and especially not of his butterfly. But Alice had poked at the memories, dredging them up from the dark pit, and now the ghosts were haunting him.

He felt her look at him, soft and nonjudgmental. He turned to her. She swallowed and reached up with a hand that had, just hours earlier, sliced deep grooves into his flesh. This time, she brushed her knuckles down his jaw tenderly. He trembled and squeezed his eyes shut.

“I thought that maybe you were,” she whispered.

He looked at her, really looked at her, seeing beyond the obvious beauty of her exotic but deadly appeal to the complicated woman beneath. To the only one of her kind who wore a badge. To a woman who had so completely altered her life that it was nearly unrecognizable from what it had once been.

He’d heard the rumors of the mad siren. Everyone had. The mystery of her banishment, and how she’d wound up in Grimm PD, intrigued him. But more than all that, he felt almost like she wasn’t just his responsibility while she handled her investigation through Wonderland, but like she was more. Like she’d always been more. He just hadn’t known it then, or maybe he had.

For so long, he’d dreamt of these waters exactly—barren, stripped of life, but even so, teeming with it. He’d always known, deep down in the very secret part of him, that those waters would one day be his too. He hadn’t known the waters would come with Elle. No one in the lands knew where the mad princess had been banished to.

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