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“Shall we start the bidding at a thousand?”

“One thousand!” A round-faced Diablim calls, appraising me as though he is doubting my worth of even that paltry amount.

These Diablim can buy a life. Buy a living being for as little as a thousand dollars. 

They call the cities where Diablim live the Fallen Cities for a reason. Human law doesn’t stretch beyond their borders. It’s anarchy. Chaos. A place where the strong and wealthy thrive and the poor and weak starve…or apparently, are sold off to the highest bidder.

“Four thousand!” Someone calls out, and I strain to see his face in the dim beyond the column of light. When I do, I wish I hadn’t bothered trying.

He is utterly grotesque, with a face half burned, whole chunks of his nose, lips, and cheek charred black or missing entirely. It takes me a second to realize the shimmering ripple in the air surrounding him is from heat. His heat. He hasn’t been burned, the Diablim is burning just beneath the surface of the mottled, broken flesh. 

A salamander? I’m not sure what they look like, but I know they have the ability to wield fire and heat. He could be one of them.

I stiffen when no one counters his offer, pressing my arms hard to my sides to keep them from shaking. Hold my breath. Please, I think. Please not him. 

His black eyes twinkle with the reflection of the spotlight. As menacing as his toothless grin.

Don’t give in, Paige, I chastise myself, willing my hands to stop trembling.

I will show them no fear. 

I will give them nothing.

The announcer straightens. The drawn-out hiss of the s that would end in my being sold to the burning beast leaves his lips. I shut my eyes.

“Fifty thousand.”

My heart stops. I peel my eyelids back to find the man who spoke. I search the faces of the crowd but can’t find him. Not until movement catches my eye and I watch as a shadowy form cleaves a path through the throng of slavers. 

The gathered Diablim fall away, opening a wide channel of bare, dirty cement floor for him to walk unimpeded to the stage.

Voices quiet, replaced by whispers bloomed on devilish lips. A low hum fills my ears and a hush falls over the crowd.

The advancing Diablim stands several inches taller than most of the humanoid Diablim around him. His long black jacket is blown open in the front to reveal a loose cotton shirt tucked down into the trim, belted waist of his dark denim jeans. 

The Diablim’s disheveled raven-black hair waves low over his brow, concealing most of his face in shadow. His presence commands attention from the throng. 

“Fifty thousand,” he repeats to the dumbstruck auctioneer when he finally reaches the front, his voice deep and threatening.

“S-sold,” the auctioneer croaks. “For fifty thousand.”

The Diablim tips his head up to examine his purchase, leveling bright yellow eyes on me. His sharply defined jawline and cheekbones are taut, but otherwise, his expression is emotionless as he watches me quietly for a moment. His piercing stare makes my hair stand on end.

He would seem to be in his late twenties, if he were human. Which he most definitely is not. 

“Shall I have your purchase delivered, Mr. Kincaid? We can see to it that she’s properly bound and won’t cause you any problems,” the auctioneer nervously asks when the silence stretches on, a wilted grin squirming at the corner of his mouth.

“I think not,” the Diablim replies. “She won’t be causing any problems. Will you?”

Continue reading Kiss of the Damned and other books like it if you enjoy:

*enemies to lovers

*powerful protectors

*why choose romances

*fated mates

*forbidden love

*supernatural creatures

*tortured heroes

*strong heroines

★★★★★ “holy tingles!!! Elena has outdone herself! This new world and characters omg I'm in love and desperate for more!!!! Fast track this series pretty please xxx” - Tiffany Steinert on Kiss of the Damned

★★★★★ “I ATE THIS BOOK UP!! I love a good shifter romance book and I can’t tell if it will be a reverse harem book, but if it is EVEN BETTER! This book has you flipping the pages wanting to know what is going to happen next, to the point I was almost late to a meeting because I had to read the next chapter. ” - Chelsea Fonseca on Shifted Fate

★★★★★ “Such a great story!!! I absolutely love this author. She so did not disappoint. I usually skip on vampires stories but so happy I didn't on this one. ” - Katie on Compel Me

Books included in this bundle:

• Kiss of the Damned 
• Sins of the Damned
• Rise of the Damned
• Claimed by Night
• Claimed by Secret 
• Seduced by Power
• Shifted Fate
• Shifted Soul
• Shifted Rule
• Shifted Scars
• Compel Me
• Provoke Me
• Redeem Me
• Destroy me
• Soul bound
• Magic Untamed
• Blood Pledged
• Shadow Tainted
• Death Kissed