Page 174 of Mama Si's Paradise

My God, he was so beautiful my eyes refused to blink because of him.

“Something…something’s wrong,” I managed to choke out. “Grey, something’s…”

“Your blood, Fall,” Grey said with a growl, pressing his forehead to mine—and it felt so, so good. So cold.

I dug my fingers in his shoulders, desperate. “Please, touch me,” I said, my words slurred together, but he understood.

His growl became louder, ringing in my ears. His hand closed around my neck, squeezing a little, and it felt like he breathed life back into me. My eyes opened wider, and I saw all of him, bloodshot eyes and extended fangs, his naked chest full of muscle and smooth-looking skin.

I was going to fucking pass out if he didn’tdo somethingto me. Anything. Anything at all.

“Grey,” I breathed, sliding my hands down the curves of his muscles.

“Hold on, Fall. Hold on a little longer,” he said, moving his hand lower on my chest, cooling me down as if by magic.

The more he touched me the easier I moved. The easier it was to run my hands up and down those arms, and that chest… “So beautiful,” I whispered, grabbing his face in my hands, touching his lips, then his fangs.Fangs,yet I wasn’t scared. I was in awe of them as I ran my fingers down their curved length. “You are so beautiful, Grey.” Everything about him, from the madness in his eyes to those smiles he’d only let me see a couple of times… “Perfect.” His body, his wide shoulders, the way his skin felt under my hands. All of him was exactly right. Madefor me.

A string of curse words fell from his lips when Grey continued to lower his hand down to my breasts, caressing theshape of them, then going lower, to my waist. But the thin fabric of the nightgown I wore stood in the way of our skins touching, and so I moved, trying to pull it up. Trying to take it off. I didn’t want clothes on me or him. I wanted our bodies touching everywhere.

But Grey stopped me. He grabbed me by the wrist and pulled up my hand over my head, and his body leaned closer to mine in the process, cooling me down instantly, making me even more aware.

“No, Fall. Not yet,” he told me.

“I need you,” I choked. “It…it hurts, Grey. Please.” It hurt so much, but it didn’t hurt when he was touching me.

Again, he growled, and I could have sworn his fangs became longer. “I know, baby. I know it hurts. It’s your blood, calling for us.” I stopped breathing altogether. “The Blood Call has begun. I can’t take you yet, but I will soon. I’ll take all your pain away. Be patient. Stay with me.”

His hand slipped down to my leg and on my naked thigh, making me moan when he pulled it up. Fuck, he felt so good that I forgot what he said instantly—but only for a moment.

Blood Call.

My God, I wasn’t sick at all. I wasn’t feverish. I hadn’t caught a fucking bug—my blood was rushing so incredibly it made me feel like I was on fire. My blood wascalling.

And the door opened once more.

“Finally, it begins.”

Romin’s whisper filled my ears, and my instincts jumped.Hishands would feel cool against my skin, too.

“Hold on tight,” Grey whispered, pressing his forehead to mine for another second.

But then Romin said, “Move, brother.”

And he did. Looking at me like he might burst into flames, too, Grey moved away from on top of me and to the side of the bed, and Romin was already climbing on the other.

“Don’t start the party without us,” said none other than Emil, as he, too, entered the room with Tristian in tow.

Behind them was Valentine.

All the Evernight brothers were here.

They wore only bottoms—some jeans and some sweatpants. They were all ripped, beautifully made as if art carved out of marble, and they all had their fangs extended as they prowled toward me with their heads down and their bloodshot eyes on me.

I was going to fucking die for real.

God, how I wanted them. I wantedallof them to put their hands on me right now and cool down the fire that was boiling my blood. Ineededit to stop hurting so badly, but when I tried to talk, all that came out of me were moans. Desperate moans.

And the brothers growled like the beasts that they were as they all climbed on the big bed with me, surrounding me on all sides.

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