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CORINNE

Only she didn’t get much sleep.

Corinne was woken a few hours later by K -lx thrashing beside her and moaning his mate’s name again.

“K-lx? Come on—wake up!” She shook him awake and was distressed to see the pure agony in his eyes when he opened them.

“Gods!” He put a hand to his face and shook his head. “ I was dreaming of her again. I don’t know how she died, but I can still feel the pain of her loss.”

“I’m so sorry.” Corinne felt guilty. She hadn’t been doing enough to help him keep the trauma at bay. It was heartbreaking to see how these dreams affected him…but also dangerous. The more his past trauma seeped into his conscious mind, the greater the chances of him going Rogue .

“It’s not your fault.” K -lx shook his head stoically. “ We must have been Bonded very closely. I’m surprised I lived when she died. A lot of Kindred warriors follow their mates into the afterlife when they lose them.”

“Maybe that’s why you became a Cyborg in the first place?” Corinne suggested. “ To erase the pain of losing her when the Tolleg surgeons wiped your mind.”

“Maybe.” He sighed deeply. “ Sorry I woke you up again. These damn dreams just won’t leave me alone.”

“It’s all right.” Corinne untied the front of her nightgown and pulled it open, baring her breasts for him. “ Do you want some more nectar?”

His eyes were suddenly half-lidded as he looked at her naked breasts and nipples, tight from the cold and tipped with beads of nectar.

Corinne didn’t usually have a problem with it leaking out since it was much thicker than milk would be so that it had to be sucked out.

But it seemed her body knew when the big Cyborg needed her.

“Gods, you’re so fucking beautiful, baby,” K’lix murmured, cupping one breast and thumbing the nipple lightly, which caused her to swallow a moan. “ You know I’ll never turn down sucking your sweet nipples.”

He ducked his head and took one tight point in his mouth, drawing long and hard in a way that sent sparks of pleasure straight from her nipple to her clit.

Corinne stifled a moan and pressed her thighs together. She had been trying so hard not to come during these sessions—it felt so wrong to let herself get pleasure from doing something so unprofessional. But sometimes it felt so good she was right on the edge…

But it doesn’t matter how professional you try to be—the nectar isn’t enough anymore, whispered a little voice in her head. He needs more to keep the dreams at bay—to keep the bad memories from creeping back into his conscious mind. You know what he needs…

Corinne felt a shiver go through her. Yes , she knew what the big Cyborg needed. And she knew she couldn’t put off giving it to him any longer.

“K-lx…” she murmured, stroking her fingers through his hair as he sucked her other nipple.

“Mmm?” He let her tight point slip from his lips and looked up. “ Yes , baby?”

Corinne had tried to get him to stop calling her that, but she couldn’t seem to break the big Cyborg of it. And to be honest, she rather liked the sweet nickname.

“Do you…remember what you were talking about before we went to bed?” she asked. Her heart was starting to pound but she did her best to keep her voice calm.

“You mean when I was asking to taste your sweet little pussy?” His eyes were suddenly dark with desire. “ Hell yes, baby— I remember that.”

“Well… I’m going to let you do it,” Corinne said. “ But , not to give me pleasure or to make me come,” she added quickly.

“What?” His brow furrowed. “ Why else would I want to do it?”

“Because Kindred have a biological imperative to taste their females,” Corinne said.

“Yes, I know— I am Kindred ,” he said patiently. “ We fucking love to eat pussy. But a big part of that is making our mate come.”

“Yes, but I don’t want you to make me come—that would make this whole thing…unprofessional,” Corinne argued. “ This is just so you can have some of my, er, ‘honey.’ Because according to the manual, the Dream Elimination compounds are even stronger there than they are in the nectar my breasts make.”

He frowned and nodded.

“Oh, I see. So you only want me to taste you for my benefit—not yours.”

“Well, yes…” Corinne stroked his cheek. “ I see how upset these dreams make you, K -lx. And the more you have them, the greater the chance you might go Rogue .”

“So really, it’s a safety issue,” he concluded. “ I mean, I could be a danger to you and everyone on the station if I don’t lick your sweet little pussy.”

Corinne shifted, pressing her thighs together as she had another vivid mental image of the big Cyborg between her thighs.

“Well, yes—if you put it that way,” she said, nodding.

“But you don’t want me to make you come, because that would make it unprofessional. We’ll only be doing this to keep me from getting out of control,” he rumbled.

“Yes—that’s it.” She nodded again. “ Exactly .”

K-lx sighed.

“All right, Mistress . If that’s really what you want, we can try it.”

“Only if you want to,” Corinne said quickly. “ If you think it would help you…”

“Oh, I know it’s going to help me to finally taste your sweet pussy.” His deep voice had dropped to a growl and his pale blue eyes were burning. “ Been wanting to do that from the moment we first Linked , baby.”

Corinne could feel the desire flowing through their Link but tried to ignore it.

“Good then. Do …do you want to do it now?” she offered. “ And then maybe we can get back to sleep.”

“Now is good,” he rumbled, cupping her breast and thumbing one tight peak lightly. “ You’re already warmed up from letting me suck your nipples so your pussy ought to be nice and wet for me.”

Corinne felt another surge of sexual need…though she wasn’t quite sure which of them it came from this time.

“Well…good,” she said, striving to keep her voice level and professional. “ Then if you feel ready to do this, maybe we should go ahead and…and just do it.”

“My pleasure, Mistress ,” he growled. And then he got out of bed and knelt on the floor beside it. He made a motion with one big metal hand. “ Come down here and open yourself for me,” he growled softly. “ Spread that soft little pussy and let me taste you.”

Corinne felt a flush of embarrassed desire rush from her breasts all the way up to her face but she tried not to show it. This was only about giving K -lx what he needed—nothing else, she told herself firmly.

She scooted to the edge of the bed and gasped when the big Cyborg put his hands on her knees and spread her legs— wide .

“Oh! But I still…still have my, er, panties on,” she protested.

“That’s all right. Going to kiss you with them on first,” he told her. “ Lean back and relax, baby.”

“But…why?” She shook her head even as she leaned back and propped herself up on her elbows.

“Because you’re not used to this and you don’t think you like it,” K -lx said. He stroked her legs, running his big, warm hands up and down her thighs as he spoke.

Corinne felt a shiver go through her. God , if she hadn’t known that his hands were part metal, she never would have believed it. They felt so warm on her skin. So gentle and teasing.

“I… I don’t know what you mean,” she protested breathlessly.

“Yes, you do.” K -lx leaned down and pressed a hot, openmouthed kiss to the inside of one knee. Then he rubbed his scratchy cheek lightly against her inner thigh making Corinne gasp. “ You as much as admitted to me that you’ve never had a guy go down on you right before.”

“My ex, Artie —he tried,” she pointed out weakly.

“Yeah, ‘tried’ is just a nice way to say he sucked at it,” K -lx growled.

“He…it just wasn’t his thing. He didn’t like it very much.”

Corinne didn’t know why she felt the need to defend her ex.

Artie hadn’t been a very exciting lover, but he hadn’t been mean to her either.

He was just kind of there …until he left and he wasn’t anymore.

And to be honest, other than missing his body heat in bed at night, she really hadn’t minded him leaving.

“A male who doesn’t like eating pussy doesn’t deserve to fuck one either,” K -lx said dismissively. “ You have to enjoy it with your mouth before you get anywhere near it with your cock.”

As he spoke, he leaned down and kissed her again—this time placing a gentle, lingering kiss to the top of her mound.

Corrine could feel his hot breath through the thin fabric of her panties and she did her best to bite back a moan.

This isn’t for me—it’s for him! I’m not supposed to be getting pleasure from this, she reminded herself. It would be wrong as a Handler to get off on letting her Cyborg taste her.

“K-lx, please…” she said weakly, as he continued to place soft, hot kisses all over her pussy.

She could feel herself getting warm and wet between her thighs and he had her all spread open, so that her outer pussy lips were parting under the thin fabric of her panties.

She was afraid that a wet spot was going to form from her juices leaking out.

In fact, she thought she could see it happening now!

God, this was so embarrassing. Reflexively , she started to close her legs, but K -lx stopped her, his hands on her knees.

“Problems, baby?” he asked, raising an eyebrow at her.

“No, I just… I think you should get on with it.” Corinne’s words came out in a rush. “ I mean, I … I’m getting really wet down there, you know?” she added, feeling her face getting hot with another blush.

“I know you are, baby. But I’ve waited a long time for this and I want to take my time with you.”

Slowly, he let one fingertip slide up and down the little vertical furrow in her panties that showed where her pussy lips were spread. He was using his vibration function and she moaned and bucked her hips when she felt the buzzing fingertip pass over the sensitive bud of her clit.

“K-lx!” she moaned in protest, which only prompted him to do it again.

“Mmm—there we go.” He gave her a lazy smile of pure lust as the wet spot spread. “ Just want to be sure you’re all warmed up for me, baby.”

“I… I don’t have to be warmed up for you to taste me!” she protested breathlessly.

“Oh, yes you do.” He frowned. “ The more turned on you are, the more honey you’ll make for me. And isn’t that the point of this whole thing—for me to taste your honey?”

“Well… yes ,” she admitted reluctantly.

“Good, then let me do this my way. You just spread your legs like a good girl and let me lick this sweet little pussy.”

Corinne wanted to protest that he couldn’t talk to her like that—“good girl” indeed!

But her train of thought was cut off by the way he slid his vibrating finger over her clit again—which was now clearly visible because of the wet spot spreading on the front of her white panties, rendering them nearly invisible.

Oh God , I shouldn’t have said I’d let him do this. What was I thinking?

But then K -lx leaned down and pressed another hot, open mouthed kiss to the slit of her pussy and she felt his tongue pressing inward, teasing her clit through the thin fabric.

A bolt of pleasure rushed through her and everything else flew out of her mind.