Untamed (Vampire Awakenings, Book 3) Read Online Free PDF

deep brown eyes
were assessing and stony as she scanned him from head to toe. There
was no lust within her gaze; she came across more like a mother
bear protecting her cub than anything. Ethan held her stare as her
assessing eyes came back to his. "Hello."
    "Mandy this is Ethan, Ethan this is my friend
Mandy," Emma introduced. She grabbed hold of her straw and took a
sip of her drink. The sweet scent of strawberries drifted up to him
but he didn't detect any alcohol in it.
    "Hi," Mandy greeted but she continued to
watch him like a hawk. Under other circumstances, he might have
found her protective attitude amusing, now he just found it
irritating and her interruption annoyed him.
    A loud cheer drew his attention back to the
game. The brunette with braids was jumping up and down as she
high-fived her teammates. She jogged over to them and grabbed her
towel from the sand. Words spilled out of her mouth at a million
miles an hour as she dried the sweat from her body and grabbed the
drink from Emma.
    She closed her eyes and made a pleased sound
in the back of her throat as she sipped it. "Delicious." Her hand
stilled on the towel when she opened her eyes again and finally
noticed him standing there. A sly grin curled her lips as she
thrust out a hip. "Well hello," she greeted. "And who might you
be?"
    Emma and Mandy rolled their eyes and Emma
grabbed her drink back from her friend. Ethan smiled back at the
woman as she dropped her towel on the ground. "Ethan."
    "Nice to meet you Ethan, I'm Jill and these
are..."
    "We've met," Mandy interrupted.
    Jill frowned as she glanced between Emma and
Mandy and then back at him. "Oh."
    "We should probably go; I could stand to get
out of this sun for a bit," Mandy said. The disappointment that
filled him was a little disturbing but he wasn't in the mood to
think about that. "Maybe we'll see you later."
    "I'm sure of it." He didn't even look at
Mandy but kept his gaze locked on Emma as he spoke. He was as
startled by the words as Emma appeared to be, her eyes flickered
and she bit her bottom lip.
    She smiled at him and Mandy took hold of her
arm. Their excited words and laughter floated back to him as he
watched them walk away with their heads bent close together. The
further away they got the more aware he became of the cluster of
people around him and the blood that flowed through their veins.
His teeth ground together as his hands fisted. After the stillness
that her presence had brought to him, the influx of awareness was
like sandpaper on his skin.
    Turning away, he walked back to Isabelle and
Stefan. They were both watching him with questioning expressions,
but it was Isabelle that jumped on him first. "Who was that?" she
demanded.
    Ethan shrugged as he lowered himself to the
blanket beside her. "Just some girl," he muttered,
    but he found his gaze drawn back to Emma as
she climbed the dunes with her friends.

CHAPTER 4
    Emma brushed her hair out and let it fall
around her shoulders as she studied herself in the mirror. Turning
away, she grabbed the purple and white sundress from the bed and
slid it over her head. Jill was adamant that they go to the bar
again tonight, Emma thought she might have a bit of a crush on
Ethan. That was a thought that didn't sit well with her, but there
wasn't anything she could do about it. She didn't blame Jill; he was gorgeous. Just recalling the
feel of his large hand encircling hers caused her heart to pound a
little faster and her mouth to go dry.
    There'd been a rod of strength in him, and
he'd radiated an aura that was both formidable and appealing. She
should probably stay far away from him, she'd already become
entangled with a man that had seemed perfectly normal, and even a
little boring when she'd first met him, but over time she'd come to
realize that she'd seriously misjudged his character. Her mistake
had caused her nothing but betrayal, aggravation, and a nightmare
she wasn't certain would ever end.
    She hadn't known him for long, but she