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CRAVING THE BAD BOY 296 - Lullaby
Morning light filtered through the pines in thin silver blades.Ariana woke to the solid warmth of Nick’s body curved around hers. One of his arms lay heavy across her waist, his palm open against her stomach as if even in sleep he needed to keep her close. For a few quiet minutes she simply listened to his breathing and let herself believe the world outside the cabin could not reach them.Then the weight of the black case on the dresser settled back into her mind.The interface.Her blood.The lullaby.Nick stirred behind her. His lips brushed the curve of her shoulder.“You’re thinking too hard already.”She turned in his arms. His eyes were still heavy with sleep, but the intensity that always lived beneath the surface was already awake.“I keep hearing the song in my head,” she admitted. “The one he used to sing.”Nick’s hand slid up her back, slow and warm. “You don’t have to use it. We can destroy the case. Walk away from all of it.”“And spend the rest of our lives looking over
CRAVING THE BAD BOY 295 - Beyond Their Reach
The road north stretched empty and dark.Nick drove with one hand on the wheel and the other resting on Ariana’s thigh, his thumb tracing slow circles through the fabric of her jeans. The touch was quiet, constant, as if he needed the contact to remind himself she was still real. Still safe. Still his to protect.Evelyn sat in the back seat, dozing against the window. Daniel followed in a second vehicle a careful distance behind, headlights deliberately dimmed. No one spoke much. The weight of what they now knew settled over the car like another passenger.Ariana was the key.Not a code. Not a hidden drive. Her blood. Her body. The final lock her father had built to keep the research from ever falling into the wrong hands.She stared out at the passing trees and tried to make the truth feel smaller than it was.Nick’s hand tightened gently.“Talk to me.”“I’m fine.”“You’re not.” His voice stayed low so Evelyn wouldn’t wake. “You’re carrying something no one should have to carry. You
CRAVING THE BAD BOY 294 - The Key Within
The safe house felt smaller once Evelyn began to speak.Ariana sat on the edge of the couch, Nick’s solid presence at her back, one of his hands resting on her shoulder like an anchor. Daniel stood near the window, watching the street. Evelyn’s voice was quiet but steady, the kind of calm that only came after surviving too much.“Your father knew they would eventually come for the research,” she said. “He spent years building layers of protection. The journal was only the first. The files in the hidden room were the second. But the real core—the part that makes the rest of it usable—he never wrote down.”Ariana’s fingers tightened around Nick’s.“You said it was a person.”Evelyn nodded.“In a way. He encoded the final activation sequence into a living key. Something that could not be stolen, copied, or forced without destroying it. He chose you.”The words landed like a physical blow.Nick’s hand flexed on her shoulder.“Explain,” he said, voice low.Evelyn met his eyes, then looked
CRAVING THE BAD BOY 293 - Shelter in His Arms
They did not return to the estate.Nick drove them to a safe house on the edge of the city, a place only he and Daniel knew about. The building was plain, anonymous, the kind of address no one looked at twice. Inside, the rooms were sparse but clean. Heavy locks. Blackout curtains. A kitchen stocked with the basics.Evelyn sank onto the couch the moment they stepped through the door. Ariana knelt in front of her, hands gentle as she checked the bruise on her mother’s cheek and the raw marks on her wrists.“I’m all right,” Evelyn said softly. “I’ve survived worse.”Ariana’s throat tightened. “I thought I lost you again.”Evelyn cupped her daughter’s face. “You found me instead.”Nick stood a few feet away, arms crossed, watching them with quiet intensity. Blood still marked the corner of his mouth. His knuckles were split. He had not let Ariana out of his sight since they left the warehouse.Daniel arrived twenty minutes later with medical supplies and a grim update. Victor had vanishe
CRAVING THE BAD BOY 292 - Midnight Temptation
The old pier sat at the edge of the city like a forgotten secret.Fog rolled in thick from the water, swallowing the wooden planks and the single rusted lamp that still flickered at the far end. The air smelled of salt and damp wood. Distant waves slapped against the pilings in a slow, steady rhythm that somehow made the silence feel louder.Nick parked two streets away. They walked the rest of the distance in the dark, hands linked, neither of them speaking. Every few steps Ariana felt his thumb brush across her knuckles, a quiet reminder that he was still there. Still choosing her over caution. The memory of his body against hers only hours earlier lingered like heat under her skin, making the cold night feel sharper by comparison.At the entrance to the pier, Nick stopped her.“Stay close,” he said, voice low. “No matter what happens.”She nodded. Her pulse was already racing, but the solid warmth of his body beside her kept the worst of the fear from swallowing her whole.They mov
CRAVING THE BAD BOY 291 - Midnight Sins
The old pier sat at the edge of the city like a forgotten secret.Fog rolled in thick from the water, swallowing the wooden planks and the single rusted lamp that still flickered at the far end. The air smelled of salt and damp wood. Distant waves slapped against the pilings in a slow, steady rhythm that somehow made the silence feel louder.Nick parked two streets away. They walked the rest of the distance in the dark, hands linked, neither of them speaking. Every few steps Ariana felt his thumb brush across her knuckles, a quiet reminder that he was still there. Still choosing her over caution. The memory of his body against hers only hours earlier lingered like heat under her skin, making the cold night feel sharper by comparison.At the entrance to the pier, Nick stopped her.“Stay close,” he said, voice low. “No matter what happens.”She nodded. Her pulse was already racing, but the solid warmth of his body beside her kept the worst of the fear from swallowing her whole.They mov
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