Page 30 of Tainted Gifts
"I want to try something. Can I use your blood?" Simone asks to Jase.
He tenses, seeming uncomfortable by that request. Figures he wouldn't do something like that for me... the hybrid he doesn't trust enough to love.
"Do it," he says, obviously prompted by my thoughts.
Simone pulls out a uranium-tipped knife, and she breaks the skin on his finger, releasing his red in a trickle that makes my mouth water. I almost blindly go for it, lunging at the red, but Simone pushes me back, dumbfounded by my blood thirst.
"What the hell?"
Jase tilts his head, seeming confused as well, but I want that blood... need it. It happens so fast. One second my blood bringers have emerged, and the next I'm on my back, Jase straddling me and pinning me to the ground with impossible strength, keeping my snapping jaws out of reach.
"She's fucking losing it," Rex gasps, terror striking his tone.
"If she wants blood, give her blood, damn it," Kellan chimes in.
"No," Simone interrupts. "Something bad is going on, and we need to find out what. Giving her blood could just fuel whatever is going on inside her right now."
"It's her fucking hybrid," Kellan gripes. "She's denied it for too long, and now it's more savage side is taking over."
"Her pupils are fine," Jase says while studying me intensely.
He draws back quickly, pinning me with more force, when I try to snap at his face, my blood bringers still drawn and aching to feel the tear of his flesh.
"Not that sort of savage side. A hybrid is full of lustful energy. Aria is damn near human with her sexual side. She's denied her heritage and the truth for too long. Blood will help. Fresh blood."
"I'm not blood fucking her when she's not lucid," Jase growls. "And as you can tell, she's clearly not in her right frame of mind. You don't know for sure what is going on, so stay out of it."
Kellan's jaw clenches, and I look to him, knowing he'll gladly give me that red drink I crave so dearly. He stifles a grin when he falls under my wanting eyes, and I try to buck Jase off in order to make it happen.
"Shit, she's strong," Jase growls while pinning me harder, showing me he has far more strength than he should.
He looks down, his eyes finding my bare body beneath my parted robe, and I see the desire form as his pants tighten. I don't have to read his mind to know how much he wants to cede to me right now.
My door swings open, and I hear a gasp as my mother's presence becomes known. Jase goes flying into a wall, and I'm freed from my hold as I jump up and latch my blood bringers into the first bit of flesh they can find.
Kellan grips me to him as the erotic sensations burst free, and gasps ring out around the room when his lips find mine, own mine. I don't let them stay there long. I need more of his melted chocolate and dark cherry blood.
"Damn it, Araya!" Jase scolds to my mother as he stares helplessly at me.
"What the hell is going on?" she mutters in complete bemusement.
I've lost interest in the room around me, though, as the blood pours into my mouth like saving grace. It fills me like the most refreshing drink in the world right now, and I sink my blood bringers in deeper, drawing out larger gulps.
"Fuck," Kellan breathes, and then he rips me away from the wound I'm bleeding while sealing my lips with his.
I let him this time, because I'm thirsty for something more now.
"She's fucking lost it, Mom, and you just let her loose. Now she's gone and sunk her teeth into the fucking killer she's babysitting," Rex says to chastise my foolish mother.
The door presses against my back briefly as Kellan opens it. My legs stay wrapped around his waist as we fall into the room. He lands on top of me, laughing lightly while secretly aching to be inside me.
My gift seeps out, slams the door, and then the ground around us vibrates.
"Let's make you feel better," he murmurs against my lips, and then I feel air tug at me as he stands with me wrapped around him.
The bed finds my back, his tongue finds my mouth, and his erection finds its way inside my throbbing haven, making me moan out for the fulfilling touch I longed for as my robe falls open completely.
"Jase, don't!" Simone yells, and then I hear a loud crashing as something happens.
