Page 125 of Crave Me
Her lips and hands were everywhere, ensuring I was still here, ensuring I existed, ensuring I belonged to her.
By the time she finished, I really was ready to be inside her because she’d aroused my need with her feral behavior. She’d been a gorgeous queen, riotous in her fury and stunning in her golden glimmer.
However, she made no move to take me.
Instead, she nuzzled into my neck and sighed. “Mine.”
My lips curled. “Feeling possessive?”
Her eyes met mine, the reddish hue having dissipated and leaving behind her golden flecks.
Her blood rage is gone.
She’d cured it through worshipping me. That was definitely not a way I’d ever heard of placating a blood rage. But nothing about Nyx was normal or ordinary.
She was a goddess.My goddess.
“I need to heal the moon,” she whispered, making me frown. “It’s bleeding fiery tears.”
I stared at her. “What?”
“I called it earlier, to replenish my powers. And I promised it Klas’s blood as payment. I have to kill him.” This wasn’t the blood rage speaking, but a goddess speaking of sacrifices to her greater entity.
“You called the moon?”
She nodded. “I impacted the cycle… by about a week.”
My eyebrows rose. “You’re saying you pulled the moon out of orbit?”
“No. I kept it on its path. I just shifted the position on that path,” she explained. “And now I owe it a tribute—Klas’s blood.”
“Fuck,” I breathed. “Did it impact the world?Ourworld?”
“A little. It mainly impacted the tides. But the moon is hurting the most. I need to pay it in blood,” she insisted.
“We need to know what he injected me with first.” We also need to find out if there were others he was working with… like Paxton.
I want their motives and reasons for attacking Gold and Garnet, too.
And I needed to do a full assessment on what effect this might have on our House.
I ran my hand over my face, thinking about the paperwork and necessary interrogations. In addition to all the phone calls I was about to receive regarding Nyx.
You moved the moon, I whispered.That’s… a terrifying ability, Goddess.
It’s not one I’ve ever deployed before,she replied.But I needed to find you, my king.
My blood heated from those two words, which I suspected was the point.
However, I couldn’t tear my mind away from the list of tasks forming in my thoughts—damage control being at the top of those items.
But I wasn’t sure it would matter.
Nyx had moved the fucking moon…for me.To find me. To save me.
Talk about a seismic gesture,I marveled to myself. But I knew she’d heard it because her lips curled.
What am I going to do with you, Goddess?I thought, searching her gaze.
