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K-LX

Goddess damn it—when she came, she really came. K -lx felt his cock throbbing angrily in his sleep trousers as he rode it out, keeping his mouth locked on her soft little pussy and aching clit despite her bucking hips.

Corinne’s moaning and crying was music to his ears.

He fucking loved making a woman lose control.

She was shaking and trembling and arching her back while every muscle in her body tensed up.

Her grip on his hair was so tight it was painful—and he reveled in the pain.

It let him know how intense her pleasure was—which he could also feel surging through their Link .

“K-lx!” she moaned, still riding his face. “ Oh God , K -lx, yes… yes!”

When she started chanting his name like a prayer, he couldn’t stand it anymore.

Reaching down with his free hand, he ripped down his trousers and wrapped his fingers around his cock.

He fisted himself once…twice…three times and then he was shooting—making a mess on the side of the bed as he came because her pleasure combined with his own was too much to bear and he was fucking overflowing with it.

At last, Corinne’s curvy body—which had been so tight and tense—sagged back against the mattress.

“ Ohhh …” she groaned and K -lx felt her go limp. “ Oh my God …oh God …”

And then she started to cry.

All right—that wasn’t in the playbook.

K-lx got up hastily and leaned over the bed. She had curled on her side and was sobbing as though her heart was breaking.

Had he hurt her in some way?

Feeling through their Link , he didn’t detect any physical pain. But he did feel emotional distress and guilt. A whole lot of guilt.

“Oh, baby…” He settled beside her on the bed and gently took her in his arms.

Corinne resisted at first but then she curled against his chest.

“Shouldn’t…shouldn’t have done that,” she choked out, between sobs. “ It was wrong .”

“It wasn’t wrong, baby,” K -lx argued softly. “ How could it be wrong to let yourself take pleasure?”

“Because I’m breaking all the laws of Cybernetic ethics with you!

” She looked up at him with wet eyes—her long eyelashes spiky with tears.

“ Do you know what they would do to us if anyone found out? I’d lose my job and probably be put in prison for the sexual abuse of a Cybernetic Unit but it would be even worse for you—you’d be scrapped!

Or else mind-wiped so you couldn’t remember me or what I’d done to you. ”

K-lx felt a cold finger of fear run down his spine.

She’d said such things before, but he’d never really believed there could be such severe consequences just for the two of them doing what came naturally.

However , the pure distress he felt coming through their link and her sobs of remorse had him much more worried than he had been previously.

Somehow, he had to make her feel better about what they had done—but how?

“Hey, baby, it’s okay—it’s going to be okay,” he murmured, stroking her hair out of her eyes. Leaning down, he kissed her wet cheeks gently. “ Everything is going to be okay, Corinne —no one is going to find out,” he promised.

She shook her head.

“I just… I don’t know what to do. We can’t keep doing this. And it’s not that I don’t want to be close to you, K -lx,” she added, looking at him earnestly. “ I do want to be close— too close. That’s the problem.”

“Look, baby, when they made those laws about not ‘abusing’ Cybernetic organisms, they weren’t talking about me,” he argued softly.

“ I’m different from the kind of Cyborgs you have now.

Those things barely even have brains. Of course they can’t think or defend themselves if someone was to try something with them.

You know if I didn’t want it, I’d let you know. ”

“I know.” She sniffed and swiped at her eyes. “ And the thing is you need it. You need all the, uh, contact we’ve been having.”

“Well, that’s what the manual says, but we don’t have to follow it,” K -lx pointed out. “ If what we’re doing is making you feel this bad, then I don’t want to do it anymore.”

“But, K -lx… I don’t want to stop.” Her eyes went wide and he felt the conflicting emotions warring inside her. Guilt and remorse were fighting with desire and…could that be love? If not that, then at least affection. His heart swelled when he realized how much she cared for him.

“It’s okay, baby. I don’t want to stop either,” he murmured. “ But we can’t go on like this—it’s tearing you up inside.”

She shook her head and swiped at her eyes again.

“There must be some other way to help you suppress your memories. But … I don’t want to stop touching you.” She reached up and cupped his cheek and K -lx felt like his heart might melt. “ I don’t want to stop sleeping with you or being close to you.”

“I don’t want that either, baby,” he said gently. He frowned, as a sudden thought hit him. “ I wonder if there’s anything in the old lab that could help with this? With my old memories, I mean.”

“The old lab?” Corinne furrowed her brow. “ Actually , there was a mention of the lab in your manual. But wouldn’t it be gone by now? Bombed or looted or torn down?”

“I don’t think so.” He shook his head. “ The main part of it was located underground— deep underground. And we Kindred are second to none at building protected structures with plenty of power backups. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s still intact.”

Corinne looked thoughtful.

“Maybe we could take a little trip to Old Earth . I’m sure Silas would be glad to get rid of us for a while.”

“You think he’d let you go?” K -lx raised his eyebrows skeptically.

“Probably.” She sighed. “ If that little snake hadn’t stolen my job, I wouldn’t have to ask him for permission— I’d just go.”

K-lx frowned.

“Wait—he stole your job? What do you mean?”

“Oh… I used to be the Director of the Cybernetics Division here on the station,” she explained.

“ But then my protégé—a good friend I loved very much named Isla —was killed when her Cyborg went Rogue . Silas used her death as leverage and claimed I was incompetent or I never would have allowed her to be matched with C -17 as his Handler in the first place.” She shook her head.

“ I was so upset about her death, I wasn’t paying attention to what was going on.

Before I knew it, Silas was the new Director and I was stuck in a Cleaning Detail .

That’s one reason he was so mad when I Linked with you—it gave me Handler status and got me back into the lab when he wants to keep me out. ”

“That fucker!” K -lx growled, feeling a surge of anger and fierce protectiveness. “ Stabbing you in the back while you were grieving—that’s fucking low!”

“That’s Silas ,” she said matter-of-factly. “ He hates women and thinks we all belong ‘in the kitchen or in the bed.’ Not that he can find a woman who’s willing to sleep with him,” she added dryly. “ He couldn’t stand that there was an ‘inferior female’ in a position of authority over him.”

K-lx shook his head.

“I’ve never understood the attitude that human men have towards human women. Always trying to put women down and make them feel weak and inferior. What the fuck is wrong with them? Males and females should be equals.”

She looked at him in surprise.

“Is that how the Kindred feel or is it just you?”

“That’s all of us, baby,” K -lx told her. “ I might have forgotten a lot, but that I remember. We Kindred believe that every woman has a little piece of the Goddess inside her—a little spark of divinity. And every woman is worthy of love and respect and equal treatment.”

“I like that.” She sighed and snuggled against him. “ I wish the Kindred hadn’t left the Earth , though I can’t say I blame them. We really fucked things up, I’m afraid.”

“We could still go find them,” K -lx remarked. “ I bet if we found the old lab and got into their database we’d find some wormhole charts and star maps too. They might have even left some coordinates we could follow to get to them.”

He felt a surge of interest from her…followed by guilt again.

“I really can’t, K -lx! I’ve still got a year left on my contract. And if the Company caught us…”

“They wouldn’t catch us if we went through a wormhole,” he pointed out.

She shook her head, regretfully but firmly.

“No, we can’t. It just wouldn’t be right…and it wouldn’t be safe. Let’s just try to ride out the year and then maybe I can get us reassigned to a different post.”

K-lx wanted to get off the station and away from the shadow of the all-powerful Company that owned it. But he wasn’t going anywhere without his Mistress .

“Whatever makes you happy, baby,” he murmured and leaned down to press a kiss to her forehead. “ Go or stay, I don’t care as long as we’re together.”

And he really meant it…but he had no idea what was about to happen.