Tormented (Evolution Series Book 2) Read Free

almost forgotten the time difference between Thailand and England. Barely an hour ago, I had been in Baha Baha , picking up lunch, when the terrorist or whatever the hell he was stormed in and almost killed all those innocent people. Standing with Aiden and Anna on the balcony of a castle in England made what had happened earlier that day feel like a lifetime ago.
    Aiden led me out of the library and through a maze of corridors that were more like really long, wide rooms. Eventually, we reached a massive pair of wooden doors.
    “Here we are,” Aiden said, pushing them open.
    I almost died. I thought his room would be in typical castle-like style— stone walls , four poster bed surrounded by furniture that had been made back in King Arthur’s day. But no… Yes, his room was huge, but it was a mush of ultra-modern with only a touch of castle-like features. For instance, his bed was solid timber and looked bigger than any king size I’d ever seen. But the place had modern trimmings, like the gigantic LED TV that came down from a secret hidey hole in the ceiling, about a metre past the foot of his bed.
    There was a lounge area at one end of the room, complete with a mini-fridge. Behind the sofa were two sets of french doors, opening to what I presumed was a balcony. And at the far end of the room was another door, which I guessed was his closet. His room was bigger than our entire villa back in Thailand.
    “Holy crap” was all I could think to say.
    “Pretty cool, huh?” He picked me up and within a split second, I was lying on the gigantic bed with Aiden’s body on top of me. Usually, I would have some sort of warning that he was about to bounce me somewhere, but with Aiden wanting to keep his mind blocks up around his mum, I had absolutely no idea.
    “We can’t,” I managed to whisper as Aiden nuzzled my neck, his hands moving up underneath my shirt. “They’ll know.” Aiden could block his thoughts from his parents, but I couldn’t.
    He propped himself up on one elbow. “I think this is one of the things that Anna was talking about when she said there are some things a mother doesn’t want to know about her son.”
    “So you don’t think she will be listening?” I asked, hoping to God that was true.
    He ran a finger over my lips, down my neck, between my breasts, until he reached my pants, sending quivers of excitement rushing through my body. Leaning forward until his lips hovered just above mine, Aiden whispered in his oh-so-sexy bedroom voice, “Nope.” And that was all the convincing I needed.
    Just as our lips met, there were two quick taps on his bedroom door before it was flung open, and some man I had never seen before entered holding a pile of neatly folded fluffy white towels.
    “Oh, my God!” I pushed Aiden off with more force than I knew I had.
    Without so much as a glance in our direction, the man headed straight towards the door to what I had presumed was the closet.
    As Aiden got up from the floor beside the bed, he gave a small laugh whilst shaking his head. “That’s just Bernard, the butler.” He flopped down on the bed beside me.
    “You have a butler?” The words came out before I had a chance to think about it. Of course he had a butler. They lived in a castle, for Christ’s sake.
    “Uh huh,” Aiden replied as if it were no big deal.
    “And his name is seriously Bernard?” I asked, thinking what a perfect name for a butler.
    Bernard returned with his head down, moving quickly towards the bedroom door. I hoped to God that he would get out as quickly as possible.
    “Bernard,” Aiden called.
    Bernard immediately stopped and looked in our direction for the first time. “Yes, master?”
    “I want you to meet someone,” Aiden said, putting his arm around me.
    “Are you serious? You couldn’t wait ‘till I wasn’t lying in bed to do the introductions?” I said silently to Aiden.
    “I could… but it wouldn’t be as much fun,” Aiden teased before continuing his