Page 71 of Heartless

“Willow Baylor operating manual. My hand is on your cheek, mate. Should you not, as you put it,melt?”

I didn’t think, I bolted, ran for the door. I expected it to be locked.

Instead, it slid open, revealing a corridor and two Hive Soldiers standing guard.

They were his, the other pieces of him. Closer to him than any of the others.

I recognized them both. They’d been with himbefore. For everything, watched everything that had been done to me.

One was Prillon. Golden skin and eyes. Silver integrations everywhere. The other looked like an oversized human, except for the fangs.

Fucking fangs.

God, I hated fangs.

Both stared at me, unmoved and unmoving, as I ran forward and lost my balance, scrambled on my hands and knees, regained my footing. I sprinted down the corridor, my bare feet slapping on the cold, hard surface. I risked a glance back over my shoulder.

The two guards had not changed position. Nexus 5 stood in the corridor, watching me.

There is nowhere to run, my Willow. I aminside you.

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Willow

How long hadI been hiding? An hour? A day? Time meant nothing. All I could think about was my mates. The explosions. Dead. They were dead.

My fault. They’d been like lambs to slaughter because I was here. Because this monster was inside me.

Stop running, female. I feel your hunger. You have a laceration on your foot.

What? Now he didn’t want me half-starved and miserable? Bleeding? In pain? Why not? So he could get me pregnant?

God, no.

I crouched down behind a service duct and closed my eyes. I had deliberately wandered, not caring which direction I chose to go. Feeling my way along the wall whenever I was able. I didn’t want him watching through my eyes. I didn’t think more than two steps ahead because I didn’t’ want him to know where I was going.

His frustration was building. I could feel it.

I rested my arms on my knees and put my head down. There had to be a solution, a way out of this.

I couldn’t stay here and become what he wanted to make me. He had a cock, I’d seen it before. Big. Blue.

Yeah, no. That thing’s not getting anywhere near you.

No kidding.

You know what we have to do. There is only one way out of this.

I know.

I thought of Zarren, of our first night together. The way we’d both lost control when the collars connected us. So hot. His cock so deep inside me I never wanted to stop. My back against the wall as he thrust hard and fast. Over and over.

Cease these thoughts and come to me.

He was irritated now. Too bad. Because Oberon’s mouth was bliss. He worked me into a frenzy, his hands everywhere. His tongue, inside me, his fingers, inside me. His cock, sliding deep as I came, my orgasm an explosion all over his hard length.

Willow, come to me. I will make you feel these things. They are gone. There is only me.