“I didn’t want to put you in the position to lie. Your rank requires absolute transparency when it comes to something as groundbreaking as this. I knew you wouldn’t send me off to play lab rat, but I also wanted to keep you from having to lie to everyone about what happened.”
“And me? What’s your excuse for me?” Hale crackles out.
“I don’t need one, Captain Banner. I simply wanted to keep this matter quiet from everyone since I couldn’t tell the commander,” I retort, and his eyes almost appear to water before he rolls up the divider glass between the back and the front.
“The full glow is about to be in play,” he murmurs softly, and then I turn to face Brazen whose lips are glad to have mine returning.
Hale doesn’t give a fuck about me, he doesn’t love me, and he cheated on me. Why the crap does he insist on acting as if I’m the one who has betrayed him?
“I love you,” Brazen murmurs, and I smile as I lean over to his ear.
“I love you too.”
His lips envelope mine, and I turn to straddle him as I latch onto the back of his neck. His hands grip my ass and jerks me against his firm, glorious erection as his twisted fantasies become evident.
He wants to fuck me with them up there.
I smirk against his lips, and then I start my downward descent - letting my lips trail seductively down the perfect line of his chest to his stomach. I’m seconds away from undoing his pants, and his head drops back as he squirms with anticipation.
My seductive ploy is halted when I feel my whole body tense up so tightly I almost get sick. I stare in disbelief as the sun’s rays streak through the window that has been cracked. The faintest of the golden streams has found his stomach, but he’s not burning from it. He doesn’t even feel it. I leap up, and his startled eyes question my bizarre reaction.
“What?” he prompts.
“The… the… the sun,” I stammer out, and I point to his exposed stomach taking on the beaming stripe.
“What the fuck?” he gasps.
He puts his hand in front of it, and still, nothing burns. The severe allergic reaction he should be having is absent, and his complete bewilderment is etched with astonishment as he tries to process what’s going on.
He rips the door open, and I scream, “Stop the car,” just before Brazen leaps out to face the object on this earth he’s never seen - the full glow of the sun.
“What the fuck is going on?” Hale blares as he hops out and stares at Brazen in disbelief.
Brazen shields his eyes from the blinding beauty he has never seen before, and I grab a pair of sunglasses from the dash as Clay climbs out with a gaping mouth that continues to clap shut and then fall back in its unhinged position.
“Here,” I murmur softly while handing him the dark shades.
“No,” he gently counters while pushing my offering away. “I want to see it completely without any tint.”
I almost cry when I see his pure elation, and he finally manages to keep his eyes open long enough to see the surface lit up.
“It’s amazing. It’s not orange, it’s just clear. It’s so… perfect,” he gushes in disbelief, and then he stretches his arms out like a bird testing its wing span for the first time as he basks in the rays he’s never before felt.
I walk a little closer to Clay, and then I whisper, “You can test my blood. Definitely test my blood.”
“Oh yeah. We sort of have to now,” he murmurs while watching Brazen relish the heat of the excited sky climber. “You won’t be a lab rat though.”
“I know. Do you really think this has anything to do with me?” I mutter.
“I know it does,” Brazen smolders in interruption, and then he walks over to pull my hand in his.
I see the tears starting to waver on his lids, and he pulls me up in the tightest embrace I’ve ever felt. It feels as though he’s praising me for this, and I’m not certain it was my doing.
“How could her blood save him and allow him to run free in the full glow of the sun?” Hale asks.
“I don’t know,” Clay says with distraction as Brazen’s lips close over mine.
“I don’t think it’s good to have him out here in the open bathing in the sun with pale eyes glowing for all to see he’s a full blood,” Hale growls.
