Octavia's Time [The Klawinken] (Siren Publishing Allure) Read Online Free

shivering uncontrollably and knew she felt the living current of their heritage flow between them. He moved closer and put his arm around her waist to keep her from falling. She leaned into him for support.
    Too soon, she backed away, regaining her balance. “I’m so sorry. I must have lost my footing or something.” She moved further back into the house, holding the door for him to follow.
    “No problem. Glad I was here to catch you.” He smiled. “I’m Mathieu Lacroix. We have a two o’clock appointment.”
    In person, she was lovelier than any dream he had ever dreamed. He was so ready for her. However, unlike Octavia, he was fully aware of who he was and had embraced his heritage. While waiting for her to mature, there was never a shortage of women who wanted to share his bed with the kind of wild abandon he demanded.
    They enjoyed running their fingers through his longish light-brown hair when they screamed his name and he filled them with his seed that had them begging for more. He loved the feel of a woman’s body in his strong arms, drawing her close to him until he could feel her heart beating out of her chest. But always it was Octavia he craved. Regardless of how experienced the woman or the intensity of the orgasm, he had never felt the oneness he knew could exist with his one true mate. There was only one woman who could make him feel that way, and he had only been told of her existence when he had turned eighteen years old. He had waited for this moment for ten long years.
    His father had taken him on a hunting trip to their summer home near Moosehead Lake, Maine, for what he said was some father and son time. It was there that his education into the Klawinken people began. He told him their people had been mating in secret for centuries. Only those born from the mating of Klawinken were given the gift of their heritage, the ability to find their one true mate and to develop the skills that were theirs as part of their enlightenment. They were gifted with the wonders of a love that knew no boundaries and a life that could be an asset to all humankind, if they chose wisely. Although the male could develop his talents without mating, a female could not fully develop hers until she became one with her mate. Some matings occurred soon after the male’s eighteenth birthday with an older Klawinken woman who was sometimes not so patiently waiting for him. Most males waited for their mate to turn twenty-one.
    At first Mathieu had laughed at his father’s story in disbelief, thinking he must have had a bottle of Scotch hidden away somewhere that he had taken a few too many sips from in secret. It was only when his father levitated himself and his chair to just below the ceiling of the room that Mathieu stopped laughing. He continued to stare while his father very gently lowered himself and the chair back down to the floor.
    “Now, Mathieu, I know this is a lot to take in. It was for me when I was your age. My reaction was pretty much the same as yours. My father, however, proved to me the truth of what he was saying by flinging me on his back and taking me so high up into the atmosphere I practically lost consciousness. Now that’s a trip I’ve never forgotten. Your grandfather always was a bit of a show-off. To me, it’s not so much how you come to believe what I say, Mathieu. It’s that you do believe what I say.”
    Shocked, he just stared at his father, this man he thought he knew. “Does everyone have to go through this rite of passage? I mean, are all my friends doing something like this when they turn eighteen?”
    “No. We’re a select group of people that have survived through the centuries through pure determination and, I must say, love. Most humans go through their lives never using certain parts of their brains. We, on the other hand, at certain ages, eighteen for boys and twenty-one for girls, begin to develop our brains more fully, almost to capacity. Those areas that are never used by