Siren's Serenade (The Wiccan Haus) Read Online Free Page B

or would you prefer to walk?”
    Serena looked at him, waiting. Like her decision hinged on his. “I think I’ll walk.”
    “Me too.”
    “Excellent,” Sage answered before yelling for Cyrus who walked back from the water’s edge. But it was Rekkus’s reaction—a near-growl—that brought Kaleb up short; that was the second time he had heard the man make that inhuman sound.
    “It’s not excellent, damn it. Sage, you knock it off. Serena, I’m warning you.”
    “Consider me warned. I am on my best behavior.”
    Had Kaleb not been walking so close to them, he would have missed the “You’d better be.”
    “Dana, please do something with your mate,” Sage said with a laugh.
    “I try, but even I have my limits.”
    “I’m right here, ladies,” Rekkus grumbled before letting Dana pull him back into the cabin.
    Getting behind the wheel of the golf cart, Sage winked at them. “Ignore Rekkus. It’s good for him to not have someone jump at his commands. Okay, you two, see you up in the main dining room in twenty minutes.”
    What the hell was this place, and how would he find out? Kaleb’s determination to discover its secrets doubled. That was if his body would let him focus on anything other than the goddess next to him.
    “So do you work here, or are you a guest?”
    “I’m a regular guest here. This is my fifth visit to the Haus.”
    “Fifth?”
    “Yes.”
    “Wow, and you’re here because you want to be?”
    “Of course. Aren’t you?”
    “I was ordered here.”
    Serena stopped walking. “Ordered by whom?”
    “My superiors.”
    Serena sighed. The action filled her lungs and pushing her breasts up. Kaleb’s fingers itched to reach up and touch her; this lust she encouraged in him was driving him insane. He could not remember ever wanting someone this much. It wasn’t just her beauty or her sex appeal; there was something else, but he couldn’t put his finger on it.
    “My superior is the reason I’m here too, but somehow I doubt your superior is your mother.”
    “Um no, and if I called him that I’d find myself scrubbing toilets with a toothbrush.”
    “Why would you do that?”
    “That is the ultimate question.” He chuckled, moving toward the Haus as it came into sight through the trees. “Would you like to join me for dinner?”
    “Yes.” No delay, no thought, just a simple yes.
    “Okay, let me go change I’ll meet you in the lobby in ten.”
    “Ten?”
    “Ten minutes? Where are you from?”
    She blushed then turned away. “My home is a bit secluded.”
    He rubbed his hands together, stalling for time; he didn’t want to leave, but really wanted to get into his own clothes. “Be right back”
     
    Serena bit her lip and watched him jog away. Kaleb was like no one she had ever met. She had had very little interaction with humans—men especially, for the obvious reasons—but she couldn’t stay away from this one. He pulled her like a siren’s song. Moving up to the main desk, she rang the bell. When no one came, she rang again.
    “Serena?”
    “Myron, what’s a helicopter?”
    “Helicopter?”
    “You don’t know either?”
    “Of course I know, but why the sudden interest in flying machines?”
    “Please, can you tell me?”
    “Come around here. It’s better if I show you.”
    Serena had never been behind the desk before. She had seen people sitting at the funny box Myron took her to, but didn’t know what it was or why anyone could find it so interesting. “If you’re asking about the helicopter, I assume you are interested in Kaleb, our Coast Guard hottie.”
    She nodded. Just thinking about him made her mouth go dry. With a few clicks of the bright-colored shell-like item on the desk, a moving picture appeared on the box and it showed a flying machine. “He jumps from those?”
    “I gather.”
    Serena watched the videos, as Myron called them, and was so enthralled with what the Coast Guard did, she didn’t notice Kaleb coming back. “You ready for