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December 18 - December 19, 2022
There is power in a name. It conjures imagery. It reminds. It condemns.
Fuck it. This might be his last chance. He kissed her quickly, hotly, and passionately before flashing a grin and torpedoing through the branches, swords first.
There was a reason vampires rarely mated. Males became protective, possessive, and passionate. To a point that defied logic. Even wolf shifters could not compare against a vampire in the throes of his mating hormones, or a female vampire in heat. Some called them rabid. Some called them insatiable. All Indigo knew was that if he gave in to the feelings bubbling inside him, bloodlust would be the least of his worries. He’d never let her go.
He wanted her; he realized. The way a male wants a female. The way a lost soul wants to be found.
“Oh, and Violet?” he said, hand on the doorknob. “If you ask me again, I will bite you, and I will make it hurt… but only if it’s for the right reasons.” He would give her whatever she needed, even if it cost him. “And if it’s not?” she asked quietly. “Then I’ll make it feel good.”
“Okay. But… I’m going to need you sitting on my lap.” “What?” She expected him to smirk, a joke, but he was deadly serious. Slotting his arms into his jacket, he explained. “It’s the mating hormones. I want you for myself, Vi. I need you in my bed where I can spend days making you smell like me.” Her brows lifted. “Days.” “Days.”
Jasper narrowed his golden eyed glare but then sat before glancing at Violet and grumbling, “You have my condolences.” “Why?” Violet asked. “Your mate is a cheeky twat.”
“I’m in love with you, Vi. If I hurt you, the way these others had, I wouldn’t be able to live with myself. Making you think I was like your family, like you couldn’t live up to my standards, it was the only way I could inspire you to train hard, to hold your own against me. I thought”—he licked his lips—“I thought if I gave you something to focus that rage on, you’d let your warrior out again. Just like you did when we first met.”
“This isn’t going to be a problem, is it?” she asked. “I thought you were feeling… good. Satisfied. Not all psycho mate.” “Where you are concerned, I will always be your psycho.”
“I heard what you said in there and I need you to know something. You’re not just the other half of my heart, Violet. You’re the reason it beats. You’re my moon.” “Moon?” He grinned. “If I was ever lost, I would look into the sky and see the moon. I’d see our goddess shining down on us and know I would be fine. Maybe I was just waiting for you.”
“If I’m the moon, then you give me a reason to shine.”
“It’s taken me a long time to realize this, but power isn’t what I thought it was. It’s not the ability to tear apart.” She glanced around the hallway, to the other rooms where the cadre members slept. “It’s this, Indi. It’s family, and I’m going to fight tooth and nail to protect all of them.”
