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K-LX

K-lx made her come over and over, using every technique he knew and a few he’d just invented.

He used the warmth and vibration settings on his Cybernetic hand to the best advantage, sliding his fingers deep in her tight, wet pussy to rub her G -spot while he caressed her little Goddess pearl with his thumb.

He loved watching her come—loved feeling her quiver with need and desperation and hearing her broken moans and cries, all the while knowing he was the one giving her pleasure—so much pleasure she could barely stand it!

After she finally finished coming and begged him to stop, he still wasn’t done with her. He rolled them both over so that she was lying on her back and her head was pillowed on his left biceps, but he kept his fingers firmly inside her.

“K-lx, please!” she moaned breathlessly as he slowly stroked inside her. “ Please …can’t take much more!”

“Shhh, all right baby. I’ll take it easy on you.” He turned off the vibration function but kept the warming on and he kept his fingers deep in her pussy. “ Is that better?” he asked.

“Ohhh…” She half sighed/half moaned. “ Oh God , I don’t think I’ve ever come that hard in my life!”

“Did your last man not know how to take care of you?” K -lx asked. He could believe that was true. She didn’t seem used to being taken care of sexually.

Corinne’s cheeks went pink.

“That…that’s none of your business,” she protested weakly.

“Well, I’m making it my business, baby.” He stroked gently inside her. “ I can feel how tight you are. How long has it been since you’ve been with anyone?”

Her cheeks went even pinker and he could feel embarrassment through their Link .

“You don’t need to know that!”

“I just want to know how to make you happy,” K -lx growled softly.

“ You’re so tight . From what I’m feeling, I’d have to go down on you a nice long time before this soft little pussy could take my cock.

” Being a Beast Kindred , he had compounds in his saliva that would help her to open for him, but they needed to be applied liberally.

Her eyes widened.

“I told you— I’m not fucking you! I can’t even believe we’re having this conversation— I’ve never had a Cybernetic Unit speak to me this way before!”

“Bet you’ve never had one make you come, either have you?” He raised an eyebrow. “ Or any other male, I’m guessing. Was your last lover not any good in bed?”

“Artie was fine,” she said defensively. “ At least…he tried his best.”

“That’s not good enough for a woman like you,” K -lx told her. “ You’re a goddess, baby—he should have been on his knees worshiping you with his tongue and then filling you with his cock every night. Anything less is sacrilege.”

Her eyes went wide again.

“K-lx—you really can’t talk to me like that! It’s completely inappropriate.”

“So is fingerfucking your little pussy, baby,” he growled.

Sliding his fingers out of her, he brought them to his mouth.

They were shiny with her juices and he sucked them, savoring her sweet and salty flavor as he held her eyes with his own.

“ But that isn’t stopping me,” he added, when he finished cleaning away her honey.

“K-lx!” she began…but then she didn’t seem to know what else to say.

“I’m sorry about earlier, in the shower,” he said, switching topics. It was better to talk about this now, when she was still open and soft from coming, he thought.

He felt her struggle internally through their Link .

“It’s just…you have to obey orders or you’re a danger to the whole station,” she said at last.

“I know that, Mistress . I fucking know it.” He sighed and looked earnestly down into her eyes. “ But listen, I can’t say I won’t defend you if someone tries to hurt you or disrespects you. My instinct to keep you safe goes deeper than my programming—it’s part of my fucking DNA !”

“Your DNA ?” She frowned.

K-lx ran a hand through his hair.

“How much do you know about my people? About the Kindred ?”

“Not much,” she admitted. “ I know they protected the Earth for a time—hundreds of years ago. But then a world war started and the leaders of the different countries refused to let them mediate it. Much of the Earth’s surface was getting bombed and ruined by contamination so they decided to leave.”

“They did?” K -lx felt a surge of surprise. “ Back in my day, we were completely committed to staying. The Earth was the best place to call brides we’d found in centuries.”

“Well, I guess the Kindred couldn’t take the endless war.” She shrugged. “ From what the history vids say, they took as many willing Earth women as they could with them and went looking for a new planet to protect.”

“Fuck.” He shook his head. “ I wonder where they are now?”

Corinne shrugged.

“Somewhere in the Andromeda galaxy, maybe. That’s what the old vids say. But they didn’t leave us their Space Folding technology, so it’s too far away for anyone to check and be for sure.”

“You could use wormholes to get to them, though,” K -lx suggested. “ We could go find them.”

“No, we couldn’t,” she said firmly. “ I still have a year left on my contract to the Company . I’m staying right here on the station and you’re staying with me.”

“Are you still going to kick me out of your room?” K -lx asked her. “ I can’t help how I feel about you, baby. It’s my Kindred DNA —you’re my woman now. I’ll protect you with my life if I have to. Even if it breaks the rules,” he added.

“Oh, K -lx…” Her eyes softened and she reached up to stroke his cheek. K -lx nuzzled against her soft little hand and pressed a kiss to her palm.

“You’re mine now,” he murmured and kissed her palm again. “ Mine to protect…mine to pleasure. You own me completely.”

Corinne looked troubled.

“This isn’t the way it’s supposed to go,” she pointed out. “ This …intense emotion between a Handler and Cyborg isn’t right.”

“Don’t care.” K -lx looked into her eyes. “ I can’t help how I feel and you can’t either. I can feel it through our Link —you’re having emotions for me, the same way I am for you.”

She reached to the Linking star at her temple which glimmered faintly in the darkness.

“We have to find a way to bring this relationship down some,” she murmured. “ If anyone found out I’d be brought up on charges and you’d be decommissioned and junked!”

“No one’s going to find out,” K -lx promised. “ I can behave in public, I promise. Just let me love you here, in private.”

Leaning down, he kissed her again. She felt so fragile in his metal arms—so tiny and delicate. A wave of protective possessiveness surged through him. Gods , he wanted so badly to protect her and keep her safe…keep her all for himself!

Corinne kissed him back for a long time…but finally drew away.

“We have to get to the bottom of these deep emotions,” she murmured. “ It’s not natural for you to feel so intensely for me, K -lx.”

“It’s the Kindred way.” He shrugged. “ We get fucking obsessed with our mates. And yes, I know—you’re my Mistress , not my mate,” he added quickly.

“ But the Link we share—it’s almost like a Soul Bond .

Like what I had with… with…” He frowned.

There was a name on the tip of his tongue—who was he thinking of?

“Like Cynthia ?” she asked softly.

“Yes!” A fragment of memory rose in his mind—a human woman with long, black hair smiling at him…and then it was swallowed in the mists before he could grab it.

“Who was she?” Corinne asked.

“I think she was my mate.” He frowned down at her. “ How did you know about her?”

“You were calling out for her when I woke you. You were in a lot of distress.”

K-lx remembered a flash of his dream and shook his head.

“Goddess. All I remember is a deep feeling of loss.” He frowned. “ Is that why you gave me your nipples to suck?”

Her cheeks went pink again but she nodded.

“I found a manual online that tells how to deal with your kind of Cyborg —with K -units. It gives a formula for Dream Eradication Elixir which I’m supposed to drink daily so I can make the Dream Eradication Nectar for you to drink.

” She touched her breast. “ I should have given it to you earlier but I was so upset…”

“You had a right to be,” K -lx told her. “ I shouldn’t have spoken to you like that—shouldn’t have threatened to breed you without your consent.”

She shivered and he felt a rush of desire go through her but it was clear she was trying to stay in control.

“Cybernetic Units do not breed their Handlers ,” she said primly. “ You and I have already gone a lot further than we ought to. I think from now on we should keep things to a bare minimum.”

“Meaning what?”

K-lx frowned. He didn’t like losing ground. If she’d been absolutely opposed to any kind of romance between them, he would have backed off. The Kindred weren’t rapists and consent was sacred to them. But he could feel the need inside her—the aching loneliness he knew he could fill.

And he could feel her desire too. She wanted him as badly as he wanted her. It felt like the Goddess had brought them together for a reason.

But Corinne was shaking her head.

“You’ll keep sucking the nectar from my breasts, because otherwise your past trauma might make you go Rogue ,” she told him.

“ And you’ll keep jerking off nightly—you need a sexual release.

But we can’t do…this again.” She motioned with one hand, indicating the way they were entwined naked in bed.

“ It’s going too far. We have to be careful. ”

“Can I at least keep holding you?” K -lx pulled her closer to his chest. “ I think that helps keep the bad memories at bay too,” he told her.

Which was partially true, but mostly he couldn’t bear the thought of not being able to cuddle her soft, curvy body against his own at night while he heard her sweet, soft voice in his ear.

“Well…” Corinne sighed and he could feel her mentally giving in. Not just to keep him happy though—she was lonely too and she liked being held. He could feel that clearly through their Link .

“Come on, baby. Let’s get some sleep,” he suggested, settling down on his back and drawing her against his side.

“All right.” She sighed again and pillowed her head on his chest. “ We can sleep together tonight…but we might have to revisit this later. Especially if you can’t behave.”

“I’ll behave,” K -lx growled and dropped a kiss on her forehead. But inside he was vowing to keep her safe, no matter what she said.

And if that fucking Silas threatened her…well, he was going to be fucking sorry.