take. He was so ambitious, and in the end, he proved he loved the job and the United more than me.
“He didn’t show up until the next morning, and he didn’t even have an excuse worth hearing. I was always there for him - any time he needed me - so it cut pretty damn deep when he couldn’t do this one thing. I finally realized he was never going to love me the way I loved him, and it nearly tore me apart. It was never really about the party, it was more about the fact he didn’t care enough about me to be there,” I murmur with a very deep explanation.
“Oh,” she sighs with a taken aback stare. “That’s so weird to hear because Captain Banner is so prompt now. I suppose it’s because he lost you due to his inability to be such,” she murmurs, and I know she’s doing her best to defend him without offending me.
“Sometimes people wait too late to change,” I sigh out.
“Did Captain Mordel have a child when he was turned?” she bluntly asks.
“No. Brazen was born a full blood. They’re a lot like us - the hybrids. They age normally until they peak, and then the change slowly sets in. It takes about seven or eight months to fully turn, and then they’re frozen n time, never aging. Unlike us though, they’re immortal, well they don’t have a span like we do rather. Hybrids have so many hundreds of years to live.”
“And yours? How long is your span?”
“I never let them test me to find out. I rather like not knowing. Since I’m a gifted hybrid, I don’t age. The ungifted do age, just much, much slower than the… your kind.”
“I’m sorry I grilled you so much,” she says with a grimace.
“It’s fine. I think the more educated you are the better. This world you want to live in, well… it has its prices for all of us. I just hope you’re ready to pay them.”
She exhales as all the crazy pieces scatter throughout her fragile mind, and then she starts to walk out the door.
“Oh,” she says while turning back around. “I almost forgot why I came in here. Captain Banner asked me to tell you that you could join him in his cabin if you got ready early. He was wanting to show you something you can only view from his room,” she says with a growing grin.
I bet he does. Smug bastard.
“Thanks Wendy,” I say softly, and then I glance over to see it’s barely a quarter after five.
I guess it wouldn’t hurt to see what he’s talking about, though my conscience immediately screams at me for considering it. Don’t go!
I walk the short distance to his room, and I rudely open the door without so much as knocking. I instantly regret such a bold maneuver when I see him standing by his huge window that overlooks the back half of the compound. He’s on the phone, and he’s in some low pants that are barely hanging on his waist enough to cover up the area I’m far too familiar with. His shirtless upper body is calling to me, taunting me with his dripping seduction. His perfect V is showing from his lower abdomen to his before the waistband of his pants hide the rest, and his rippling abs stretch up to meet his exquisitely toned, smooth chest. The throbbing I’ve felt in dull beats now pounds fiercely inside my walls, making feel the urge to double over. I shift my weight from left to right instead, though I lack subtly. It’s just too much for me to ignore, and I squirm as an effect, my temperature rising as it always does around him.
He smiles when he sees me and motions for me to join him when I finally snap out of my drooling trance - my foolish eyes removing themselves from his sculpted physique.
“Thanks, Hubert. I’ll make sure the others are well aware when they return,” he says into the phone.
“Good evening, Captain,” a gruff voice from the other end of the phone offers.
“Good evening indeed,” Hale replies somewhat salaciously, his eyes running the full length of my body just as mine did his.
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