Cougar Romance: The Traitor: Secret Shades of the Alpha Blood Series (Paranormal BBW Menage Romance) Read Online Free Page A

was.
    “ And, as you said before
we got here,” Charlie continued, “I can’t train you on my own.
Manaba is a priestess in the Navajo order. She can assist in your
training where I can’t.”
    “ You need a priestess for
my training?” Diana asked.
    “ A priest or a priestess,”
Charlie said, “there are chants. Meditations, if you like. They
have to be said by someone in tune with the spirits.”
    Diana must not have been
able to hide the skepticism in her face, no matter how hard she
tried because Charlie increased the pressure on her
hands.
    “ Diana, please,” he said,
“you have to trust me.”
    Once again, his expression
and voice were so sincere, it was very hard not to take him at his
word. She had to force herself to remember what he had heard
Charlie and Sandra (now Manaba) talking about before they realized
she was awake.
    They had talked about
killing her.
    Charlie reached his hand
to Diana’s cheek and stroked her skin with the back of his
fingertips. Diana, against her better judgment, felt her heart leap
at the touch. She looked into his light brown eyes and found it
very difficult not to get pulled in.
    Forcing herself to think,
she closed her eyes and thought of Cat. She remembered the way Cat
had looked at her the night before, the way he had touched her, the
tender kiss he’d placed on her neck when he gave her the
talisman…
    The talisman! Her eyes
flew open and she felt for the place on her chest. The talisman was
not there.
    “ Where is my necklace?”
Diana asked.
    “ I told you, Cat’s placed
a curse on it. It’s not safe for you to wear it here,” Charlie
said, “don’t worry. We’re keeping it safe until we can find a way
to disconnect it from him.”
    Diana’s heart began
beating wildly, instinctively, she turned away from Charlie and
began looking wildly around her.
    Somehow, she felt
vulnerable without the marble cougar pressed against her skin, she
felt exposed…
    “ Diana,” Charlie said
moving his hand to her cheek again and forcing her to look into his
eyes, “do you trust me?”
    She wanted to scream out
that she did not trust him. That she never would. She wanted to
demand that he take her back to the reservation; she wanted to run
from the cave and find Cat on her own.
    But, she knew, any of
these ideas would be suicide. And, besides, the elders had said she
would need to be trained. Apparently, Charlie realized that too.
Training would take a long time. During that time, she could think
of a plan. She could find a way to get back to Cat.
    Until then, she would
simply have to pretend.
    “ Yes,” she lied, “I trust
you.”
    Charlie’s charming smile
returned with full force.
    “ Good,” Charlie said, “you
should probably get some more rest. You’ve had a long few
days.”
    Diana couldn’t argue with
that. She was still exhausted and, she didn’t think Charlie or the
woman he was with would do anything to her while she slept. So, she
nodded as she climbed back onto her cot. Charlie took her hand to
help her up. Diana, once again, felt an unpleasant shiver run up
her spine.
    “ When you wake up,”
Charlie said, “we’ll begin your training.”
    He helped Diana lay back
on the small pillow at the top of her cot. As she lay down he
remained looming over her and touched her cheek once
more.
    “ Once your training’s
finished,” Charlie said slowly, “we can be mated.”
    Another horrible shiver
ran down her entire body. She tried not to show her distress at his
words. She must have masked her feelings well because Charlie
smiled once again.
    “ I don’t know about you,”
he whispered, leaning closer to her, “but, I’m looking forward to
that.”
    Diana tried her best not
to recoil as Charlie leaned over and kissed her fiercely on the
lips, forcing his tongue into her mouth. In spite of herself, Diana
felt her body respond pleasantly to his touch. All the same she
forced her hands and her mouth to remain still.
    Responding to him, no
matter