Page 124 of Crave Me

She still didn’t seem to hear me, her ire overwhelming her instincts.

“Nyx,” I said, my voice a rasp of sound. I could barely move, my limbs weighed down like lead blocks.

She growled, her eyes finally finding mine, and I stared at her red-tinted golden irises. They resembled blood moons.

Oh, shit.“You’re experiencing blood rage.” It was similar to bloodlust, only characterized by the need to fight, kill, or fuck.

And right now, she was possessed by the need tokill.

That was why she sounded different to me. This wasn’t Nyx.

Well, it was her and all her glorious goddess power. But the furious need to slay wasn’t her.

“I need to know what he injected me with,” I told her in as soft a voice as I could manage. “It wasn’t a bullet.”

Klas’s lips curled into a grin, the look one that reminded me a bit of a charming sociopath.

Plan B, he’d said.

What does that entail, Klas?I wondered.Are you going to use this to negotiate?

Nyx was still looking at me with the whip wrapped around his throat.

“What did you inject me with?” I asked, grimacing at my hoarse voice and the heaviness in my body.

The only reason I seemed to be awake was because of Nyx’s energy blast. Perhaps she could cure me. But the crazed look in Klas’s eyes suggested otherwise.

He’s not going to tell us anything.

“Paxton?” I prompted, causing a growl to leave Kaspian.

“I don’t know what was in it,” Paxton replied, the truth in his words making me sigh.

Because that meant whatever this was, it had been Klas’s plan.

I hadn’t pieced it all together yet, but it seemed everything had been Klas’s doing.

“We need him alive, Nyx,” I told her.At least until he talks.

She hissed. “No. Hedies.”

The whip began to tighten, her blood rage in full effect.Fuck.

I did the only thing I could think of and groaned, then I allowed her to hear my pain, the agony in my thoughts, my need for a cure, and in the next moment, she was on her knees beside me, her hands on my face as she pushed energy to me.

I leaned into her, desiring her touch and warmth and reveling in her stardust.

She blew some over me, her wish clear—she wanted me to heal. But I suspected we would experience something similar to her healing, where her body started to decay again because of the spell.

And mating wasn’t going to fix it this time.

Kaspian started issuing orders in the background, his words quiet as though not to disturb Nyx, but she was too focused on me to notice him.

She kissed me, her tongue trying to coax mine into action. Then she bit herself to feed me her essence. I swallowed, her taste and blood a welcome antidote, even if it was temporary.

Take me back to my room,I told her, aware of what I needed to do to help her blood rage subside.I want to be inside you.

She released a primal sound and phased us back to my bedroom in a blink. But instead of straddling me or trying to fuck, she started checking me for wounds.