Confined (A Tethered Novel, Book 3)
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Confined
A
Tethered Novel
Book
Three
Copyright
© 2013 by Jennifer Snyder
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Chapter Three – Delicate and Fragile
Chapter Four – Designated Kissing Zone
Chapter Five – Wine and Cotton Candy
Chapter Six – A Little Intense
Chapter Nine – Guilty Conscience
Chapter Ten – Deafening Silence
Chapter Eleven – Something Is Brewing
Chapter Thirteen – To Draw Wealth from
the Elements
Chapter Seventeen – Fire Starter
Chapter Eighteen – Fire Elemental 101
Chapter Twenty-One – A Curse to Him
Chapter Twenty-Two – Bad Things Often
Come in Threes
Chapter Twenty-Four – Black Out
Chapter Twenty-Six – Dark Moon
Chapter Twenty-Seven – Drugged
Chapter Twenty-Eight – Mind Over
Matter
Chapter Twenty-Nine – Harvesting
For
YOU reading this book right now. Thank you
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The water was surprisingly warm as it lapped against my
ankles. I was mesmerized by the deep midnight blue of it as it mirrored the low-hanging,
murky clouds above. It seemed endless, to the point of touching the sky. I
stared, struggling to differentiate where one ended and the other began. The
wind picked up as the ocean air dampened a little more, holding the promise of
rain. Pausing in my walk, I turned to face the ocean directly. Inhaling the
salty breeze, I allowed the dampness of the warm air to touch my face and seep
through my skin.
Strands of my dark hair blew across my face in individual
wisps as I turned to watch the others gather. Adrenaline pumped through my
veins at a nearly nauseating pace, and my heart pounded out a nervous rhythm in
my chest as I thought of what I was about to do.
My eyes shifted from Callie to Adam and then lastly to Kace.
After tonight, they would all finally be initiated. After tonight,
I
would be initiated as well, and the tether between Theo and me would be broken.
How to Keep A Major Secret 101. I could teach this class,
because apparently, I seemed to know an awful lot about the subject matter
lately. In fact, it was all I felt like I’d been doing since the night on the
cliff, when Theo had saved me. Now, nearly two weeks after our near kiss at the
apartment party near Craven College, my secrets continued to pile up. I still
had yet to mention anything regarding my sudden decision to become initiated to
anyone.
Adjusting the little triangles of my bikini top, I
straightened my limbs and wondered why I’d decided to keep that last piece of
knowledge to myself for so long. Eventually, I would have to tell them all
anyway.
A nice breeze caressed my skin, and I thought of the only
person I knew who could make his own gust of wind like that—Theo. He’d consumed
my mind since the night of the party. I’d thought about him every time the wind
blew, every time Kace touched me, and every time Kace and I kissed.
I hated it, the way my mind seemed to work lately. If the
initiation didn’t break the tether between us, then I was certain I’d die from
guilt.
“Can you spray a little more sunblock on my back, please?”
Callie asked, pulling me from my thoughts. “I always get burned there.”
“Sure,” I said as I moved for the bottle.
I used this moment as an opportunity to search for Theo,
knowing good and well if he’d been close by, making the breeze I currently felt,
I would have felt the warm sensation that always seemed to course beneath my
skin whenever he was near.
Theo was nowhere to be seen. Not a surprise, but still a
swift pang of disappointment shot through me. I was bordering on pathetic and
nearly crossing the line at cheating.
All something I was not proud of at the moment.
Lately it seemed as though my body craved to be near Theo,
as if I missed him—mind, body, and soul. It was ridiculous, frustrating, and
heartbreaking all at the same time. I’d managed to occupy myself by either
busting my ass at Spellbinding Reads or spending loads of quality time with
either Callie or Kace. I made sure I was never alone, because I knew the moment
that I was, Theo would visit me. And if he did, I wasn’t sure what might happen
between the two of us.
