Page 234 of The Curse Trilogy

My whole body tenses, and Brazen’s protective arms start pulling me behind his body.

“I don’t think that’s the best of ideas right now, Captain,” Brazen murmurs gently. “I also think it would in the best interest of everyone here if you found another interrogator. Araya and I will be moving to Circuit until a new base is acquired.”

“I’d really like the opportunity to explain some things. Araya, I-”

“I can’t hear it right now, Nicholas,” I choke out, and Brazen starts pulling me away from the full blood I now know as my estranged father.

Brazen holds me as we walk through the halls, and he continuously kisses the top of my head.

“I’m here for you, baby,” he soothes, and I stop walking to put my lips against his.

His hands become a little rougher as he grips my sides, and then I feel a wall against my back as his key swipes the door beside us. I smile when my eyes catch a glimpse of his apartment, and then my eyes widen in fear.

“Your mom and dad,” I gasp.

He smirks as he snickers out, “They’re gone. Mom got a little rattled from her encounter with you, so Metropolis sent another representative in their place.”

I stifle my grin as he pulls me to his bedroom I’ve barely seen, and then I feel the bed beneath my back as he slides over me.

“Araya, I love you, and that’s always going to be true no matter what. I can’t think of any reason for us not to be together. I’ve asked this before, but I want us to finish what we started this time.” He pauses as he moves down to be on one knee. His eyes look up as he continues with, “Araya Crush, will you marry me?”

He pulls out a pristine ring with a black opal and a scarlet rose in the center to exactly match the one I’m still wearing even in its rusted state. Tears fill my eyes, and my hand reaches up to cover my mouth as he eagerly awaits my answer. I bend over to pull his face to mine, and his sweet breath fills my mouth as our lips dance on each other’s.

Very slowly, he stands to his feet, his arms wrap around me, and his lips continue to devour mine. My hips tilt to meet his erection as his hands slide up my sides to pull my shirt over my head. His soft lips stroll over my chest before reaching my neck, and his teeth slide down to graze my collarbone before he jerks off my shorts and underwear.

“Yes,” I murmur into vacant air above me as my head tilts back, and his lips return to mine bearing a salaciously excited grin.

“I love you,” he utters.

“I love you.”

He slides the new ring on my finger, and then his lips attack mine as I pop open the buttons on his shirt to expose his perfection hidden beneath. His cool flesh chills my heated barrier, and his grinding motion promises what’s to come.

His hard, deliciousness slides into me very gently, and then I feel his teeth threatening to break the skin of my shoulder.

“Can I?” he asks in a breathless hum.

“You don’t have to ask,” I breathe out, and then I feel the exquisite, erotically charged pain of his blood bringers injecting me with his passionate venom.

I gasp as he takes my blood in his mouth, and the erogenous explosions rattle free throughout my body. My lips grab his, and then he surges into me with such a fantastically powerful force. His chest hovers over my face as his long body digs deep into mine, and my blood bringers find their way to his shoulder to inject my own toxic lust.

“Fuck,” he murmurs under his breath with divine ecstasy, and then his lips return to mine without hesitation as he pounds into me all the harder.

He growls as he continues his fervent pace, and his lips continue to tangle with mine. Our bodies toss in the sheets until we run out of bed and slap the floor. The ground vibrates, and he teasingly pulls out to where his tip is just barely inside me while he smiles deviously.

I abuse my gift by forcing his body to slam into me, and he moans out from the turn on. He pulls me tighter, and my nails slide up his back as his skin cools even more and mine fires up.

Fire and ice.

His icy lips feel incredible against my heated ones, and his teeth tug at my lower lip as he pounds into me with his full blood force ravaging my hybrid body. I gasp and he grunts as we both near our climatic release, and I grip the back of his neck to almost clank our teeth together from the intoxicating entanglement.

My legs begin to stiffen as I scream out, and he thrusts into me one last merciless time before his warmth fills me. I laugh and cry at the same time as he falls to my body, and he begins kissing me erratically all over while I stare at my new ring.

“So we’re really doing this?” he asks softly.

“As soon as possible,” I murmur earnestly, and then Hale’s devastated face flashes through my mind.

The momentary distraction is ripped apart when Brazen’s cool body begins sliding over mine, and then he pulls me up from the floor to drag me back into the bed.