Matching Dragons Chinese Zodiac Romance Series Book 6 Read Online Free

out in barren warehouses and the like, a shadow passing through the human realm.
    He hadn’t enjoyed such comfort since that morning when he’d woken to the sight of blood, his siblings dead…
    Lok jolted to his feet, the chain tugging and jerking Kadence’s hand off her face. Damn.
    She bolted into a sitting position. “What…” Her sleepy eyes focused on him. “Oh, you . Didn’t anyone ever tell you it’s rude to wake someone up like that? Ugh .” She shuffled off the bed and stormed into the bathroom.
    Lok plopped down, scrubbing his hands across his face. The flaming pearl inside Kadence was too precious to lose to a human’s flighty whims. He’d have to try harder to earn her trust. Because honestly, whisking away a human was very different from doing the same with a necklace or a chalice. If her will proved stronger than the pearl’s, he might lose her to another…
    Unacceptable. He fisted his hands while Kadence strolled from the bathroom. Her sexy fragrance teased his nostrils as she passed him, headed for the closet.
    He must have tuned out her showering, because her hair was damp, her skin glistening, and a linen towel wrapped around her chest, the fabric hugging her soft curves.
    She hummed, flipping through the hangers, and finally settled on an outfit. As she plucked the garment, she dropped her towel.
    Nude. Her pale skin was flushed a rosy pink from the heat of the shower. His greedy gaze traveled along her toned legs, landing on the fine curve of her lush ass. She stood in profile to him, her damp locks curling over her breasts and hiding everything but the smallest glimpse of one rosy peak. His palms itched, begging to cup that sexy weight, but she stepped into the grey wool dress and wiggled the tight fabric over her hips and breasts, shoving her free arm through one sleeve.
    Damn.
    After stepping to her discarded boots, she tugged them on, zipping them to halfway up her bare thighs.
    His cock hardened, straining against the front of his pants—an obviously thick bulge he’d be unable to conceal if she glanced in his direction. He was definitely going to have a word with the housekeeper about this uniform.
    “A little help here.” She waved her shackled wrist at him. Oh yeah. She’d need the chain removed in order to thread her arm through the other sleeve.
    Fuck. She was going to try to escape. He fought down his erection, rose, and strode to her side. The glimmer in her eyes told him he was right. If he released the chain, she’d slip right out from beneath him.
    Unless… The corner of his mouth lifted. He unclasped the chain from his wrist and snapped it around her free one, leaning in close. “Don’t get any ideas.”
    Her breath hitched. Yep. Scheming.
    The second he unchained her wrist, she bucked against him, grasping for the free length of chain.
    He let her snare it, because he’d already twisted his leg around her and, as soon as she lunged backward, he fell toward her, arms circling her head as they crashed to the floor.
    He rolled them a second before impact, his spine cracking into the tiles. She grunted, still writhing against him, straddling his hips.
    “Let me go!” Her puffing growls teased the darkness inside him, his beastly nature urging him to possess her. Now.
    Not yet. He clenched his jaw and grabbed both her wrists, tugging them to his chest. “Stop fighting. You’re not going to win.”
    He detected her little heart pounding inside her chest. Her heavy breaths fell across his skin and she pressed her full breasts against him.
    Careful to not exert more than human force, he clutched her to him and snapped the chain around his wrist once more. “We don’t have to be enemies.”
    “Oh really. Do you always chain up your friends?” Her sneer stabbed at his chest. This was not how it was supposed to be.
    A flaming pearl should adore her dragon. Even in inanimate form, the pearl possessed sentience. It desired to be owned and treasured.
    Why did Kadence