Free The Siren Series 1: Ember by Marata Eros Page A

added, “I'm Brandon.”
    “He didn't hurt me,” Ruby said softly,
remembering his hot tongue, its laboriously torturous scalding
movement over her parts and swallowed.
    Brandon scented her arousal and his frown turned
to a scowl. Ruby sank until only her deep chocolate eyes met his
over the rim of her sleeping chamber.
    Huh... this wasn't going well. Brandon had made
fast friends with Ember and the rest of the Mer gang. And he'd
thought the maiden would be all over seeing him as a great
prospect.
    Of course, he supposed that her being raised
amongst humans didn't help the transition along. He'd kick it into
gear and see how that went.
    “What's your name?”
    Ruby looked at him. She didn't answer for so
long his gaze became hard. She finally replied, “Ruby.”
    Ruby, Brandon thought, remembering her
pearlescent skin, looking at eyes that sparkled back at him like
deep garnet jewels. He fought another erection with difficulty.
    “We saved you from the fire demon,” he explained
for a second time as introduction.
    “Uh-huh,” Ruby said doubtfully.
    She didn't act very grateful , Brandon
thought.
    “I don't want to be here. Please... just let me
go,” Ruby said, barely keeping the tears that threatened at bay.
She just knew, knew , that if she could get some clothes and
get the hell out of this... Ruby looked around, cave, s he'd be able to escape this city and go
to the next. She already knew were: Astoria. She'd jump borders and
high tail it to Oregon. Ruby would be okay if it was coastal.
    It didn't take a brain surgeon to get a load of
what she was thinking. Ruby's large expressive eyes held her
thoughts and Brandon couldn't help but think of how vulnerable she
would have been amongst humans. Her fragility was obvious to him
and what experience did he have? Two years in his sheltered coven
learning the ways of Druid vampire and vicarious human existence
through a mother that had lived amongst humans... very much like
Ruby had.
    She made every protective instinct he had and
ones he didn't come on line. Brandon hadn't realized what it meant
to be male and Druid vampire until he was faced with his biology.
If she had been Druid he thought it might have been worse. But she
had blood of the Mer and therefore it was just as bad. Like blood
spoke to like.
    He moved toward her as Ember walked in through
the door he'd left ajar.
    “What are you doing, Brandon?”
    He turned guiltily and was overcome by the same
sensation he had with Ruby but somehow different. “I'm visiting the
maiden.”
    “Yes, I see that. It was a successful
undertaking,” Ember looked at the girl and smiled and Ruby gave a
small smile in return.
    Finally, another girl , Ruby thought,
relieved.
    “I'd like to have a chat, eh?” Ember said
smoothly. Dismissing him without saying so.
    Brandon narrowed his eyes on the princess,
taking in her royal garb, a pale violet, playing up those large
eyes, nearly black, the tinsely silver-white of her hair as it
flowed to the small of her back. Brandon knew she would draw a
crowd if she were around humans and was probably barely within
human standards of looks as it was. Ember looked slightly less Mer
than the warriors. He wondered on that.
    “Fine,” Brandon agreed reluctantly, looking at
Ruby again, her hands gripping the rim, the sooty lashes over deep
eyes, the pale hair wet from the sleeping chamber fanning out
behind her like wheat in the wind.
    His dick twitched. Time to go , he
thought, turning and walking out without another word.
    But Brandon wasn't done, not by a long shot.
    Ember said nothing, instead she gracefully moved
around the room, stepping behind a stone wall and gathering a pale
seafoam green floor length gown.
    “I am Ember,” she told Ruby gently, handing over
the garment soundlessly.
    Okay, total creep factor, Ruby thought.
Yet... there was something eerily familiar about the other woman.
Ruby studied her and hit on something.
    They looked vaguely alike.
    Ruby had never met anyone