Free Aaron's Kiss Series Boxed Set (Books 1 - 7) by Kathi S. Barton

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    “Sara, let me taste you, love. Please?”
    Before she could answer, before he could taste her, she was pinned against the far cabinets, two feet off the ground by Colin, and Aaron was on the floor. Colin had his large bicep at her throat while working to take her knife from her hand. Aaron didn’t think Colin would hurt Sara. He just wanted to disarm her. He saw her slam her wrists against his shoulder, and with a hiss of steel, twin blades came forward and into her hands. In a blink of an eye, everything changed from disarming her to her having a blade at Colin’s heart with just enough pressure to draw a drop of blood.
    “Colin, don’t. She’ll do it. Put her down. It’s just a small...misunderstanding between us. Isn’t it, Sara?” Aaron looked in her eyes.
    “My Lord, this puny human cannot come in here and pull a blade on you.” Anger and something hinging on incredulity was in his voice, as if he couldn’t believe Aaron would want him to stop protecting him.
    Aaron ignored Colin for the moment and continued to stare at her. What he saw gave him pause; hurt, sorrow, sadness, bleakness, every depressing emotion you could imagine, but mostly he saw determination cross her face. She would kill Colin if, but only if, he gave her a reason.
    “I have no doubt she is regretting it as we speak, aren’t you, Sara? Sara, answer me.”
    Aaron stepped forward to pull Colin’s arm from her neck and stopped. She pushed the blade into Colin’s chest a little harder. Blood now dripped down his shirt.
    She whispered through his mind, as she was unable to speak with Colin cutting off her airway. “ I don’t want to hurt him. But know that I will. I had a momentary lack of good judgment the other day and I’ve decided I can’t die just yet. You tell him to let me go and I will stop trying to remove his heart .”
    “Colin, she’s very sorry for trying to kiss me just now. If you’d be so kind as to let her go, I might let her try again.”
    Aaron could almost feel her glare, it was so intense. He needed to make him let go, damn it. He was touching what Aaron considered his, and he did want to kiss her properly this time. But Colin’s bark of laughter brought him up short.
    “I will back off, little one, if you would be so kind as to not unman me just yet. I may have something there that we can both enjoy later, if you’d like,” Colin told her.
    Colin and Sara both turned to look at Aaron as a feral growl emanated from him.
    Colin lowered her very slowly. There was something, he would imagine, about having a very sharp knife at your dick that would make any reasonable man pay attention to details. Once she had both feet planted firmly on the floor, Colin stepped away from her. The next thing Aaron knew, she had flipped both Colin’s feet out from under him. As he landed on his back with a whoosh, she was straddling his chest with her blades at a cross at his throat. Shit , he thought, she’s fast as well as dangerous.
    “I put you down as you asked, little one.”
    Colin put his hands up in surrender. Aaron decided not to interfere. If he pissed her off more, which he usually did, she might kill his friend out of spite.
    “Yes, you did. You also opened my wound, and made me bleed again, vamp. I don’t want to bleed anymore in this house, understand? I’m going to get off you, and you will lie very still until I am standing over there near the sink. If you don’t comply, I’ll have your master dead so fast, if you blink, you’ll miss the show. Deal?” Colin nodded.
    Sara moved off him and to the sink very slowly. Colin watched her every move. So did Aaron. Once she was where she wanted to be, Colin got to his feet and bowed to her. She had just bested one of Aaron’s best warriors, and Aaron had never been so relieved in his entire life.

~CHAPTER SIX~
     
    Colin stared at the woman for nearly a full two minutes. She watched him as well. She never squirmed or gave any indication that she was