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Chapter Twenty-Six

Luke

“Is that how you want it, hmm?” She gasps as she slides her tunnel up and down my hard shaft.

A crazed, obsessive mood has come over my angel. She’s tuned away from me, showing me her thick, round ass. My length blazes with heat as she grinds up and down on me, her walls gripping me tight as she looks over her shoulder at me.

The sexiest part is her expression. She’s got her eyebrows raised confidently, telling me wordlessly she knows how sexy she is. She’s in control. She works her hips, causing her big, juicy ass to shiver and shake.

I grip her breasts, pushing them together, emphasizing her size. She slides her hand through her gorgeously tousled hair, owning this moment, bouncing with abandon.

“I’m—your—obsession, ruh-right?” she moans.

I can barely speak as I smooth my hands to her hips to help with the motion of her unstoppable lust. “You’re… everything,” I groan. “Everything to me.”

I groan at the sight of my hands framing her undulating hips. I can sense my climax approaching, threatening to erupt. I try to hold back. She must be able to sense it in the way I grip her hips. She laughs and moans, a sound of pure power, knowing she never has to be shy again, knowing she’s free to be like the characters from her books.

“Together.” She gasps. “Just... a little… longer.”

“Fuck, fuck.” I breathe raggedly. “Come on, my dick. Come for me. Come for your book master. Fuck .”

She leans forward, propping her hands on my legs to give her the clearance to move her body even faster, causing her ass to bounce captivatingly. I bury my hands in her thickness.

“Spank me,” she moans.

“Is this from one of your books?” I growl, bringing my hand down in a love tap against her thickness.

“Nuh-no.” She gasps. “This is—just—for—us…”

I spank her over and over until she can’t take it anymore and creams all over my rock-hard cock. The moment I feel the tell-tell pulsing of her tunnel, my lust unleashes, a hot stream of come surging out of me and into her. She keeps grinding, my dick refusing to wilt, an unstoppable flow of release gushing out of me until there’s nothing left.

Finally, she slides away and crawls into my arms. I hold her close, kissing her forehead.

“I feel drunk,” I say, laughing. “That was amazing. You’re amazing.”

“You bring it out in me,” she pants. “I never would’ve acted like this before.”

“Good,” I growl. “No one else gets to see you like this, gets to feel your curvy, naked body. Just me. Forever.”

“Forever?” she whispers.

“You heard me,” I say. “Whatever happens, even if we were on opposite ends of the world, we’d make this work. I knew that the first moment I saw you, sitting in the café with that cute look of concentration on your face. I knew you were mine.”

“Absolutely, Seraphina,” Ally says, as a hush falls over the lab. “I’d be delighted to take you there. Would you like me to ask you a series of questions to better tailor your experience, or should I detect your desires as we get to know each other?”

Sera smiles at me from the driver’s seat with the window rolled down. All around us, my team watches in complete awe. Steve, my co-lead, makes an okay sign at me. Sera is sparked up, living up to her name, excitement emphasizing her natural beauty.

“Let’s hold off on the questions for now, Ally,” she says. “Would you mind driving me around the studio? Please, avoid any obstacles.”

“Of course, Seraphina.”

The car takes off, Sera holding her hands up to show she’s not touching the wheel. Steve walks up next to me, breathless. “This is incredible. Ally hasn’t responded like this since before the sabotage.”

“Sera’s been working on it nonstop,” I say, pride whelming in my voice. “She’s one of a kind, Steve. I don’t think she even knows how special she is. She’s a genius. She’s… she’s everything.”

Steve smiles. “I’m happy for you.”

“It’s unusual to see you smiling.”

“It’s unusual to see you in love.”

“Touché.”

When Sera completes the circuit, everyone applaud, me most of all. She climbs from the car, her chest rising and falling hard. She looks so vivacious, so ready for the grand adventure of life. “This is just the prototype, so I don’t want to… Wait…” She laughs, looking at me. “Why am I giving a speech?”

“Don’t stop, Sera!” I exclaim.

She grins. “ Okay . As you all know, this is just the prototype. I also want to stress that I could only insert my empathetic model because your high-standard work allowed it. But I think this is promising?”

“It’s promising for sure,” Steve says. “In fact, if Luke doesn’t offer you a job, I will.”

When she rolls her eyes, I approach her, taking her hands. “He’s right, Sera. You belong here, with us, where you can see this project through to the end. I know you have other considerations, but I truly believe this is the best place?—”

“Yes,” she says, her eyes glistening with emotion. “If I patch things up with Ellie, I can fly and visit her. I won’t let guilt make my decisions for me. Luke, being with you is the only thing I want.”

I pull her into a hug. She holds me tightly.

Steve clears his throat. “The only thing you want… besides expanding upon and implementing your empathetic-AI approach, yes?”

That gets another chuckle from the team.

Sera grins. “Yes, besides that.”

“Phew,” Steve says jokingly, whipping at his forehead.

“We should hold a press conference,” I say after a moment, smoothing my arm over Sera’s shoulder as I turn to the team. “I’m sure our PR people would love some footage of the car driving smoothly… we can hold a press conference and announce our progress. Sera and I?—”

“Woah, wait a sec,” she says. “You want me at the press conference?”

“Of course,” I say, full of conviction. “You’re a member of the NeuroDrive family now, and you’re the one who tamed the rogue AI. You belong at my side.”

“Are you sure?” she murmurs. “I don’t want any special treatment.” She glances at the team.

“Sera, relax,” Steve says. “If you’d come in here with an idea that turned out to be crap, then the boss started acting like a love-struck teen…” He winks at me. “Talking about press conferences, that would be one thing. But this is different. You’ve done what we couldn’t and should be very proud of yourself. You deserve this.”

“Seriously,” I say. “If you can stop Steve from being so grumpy all the time, you’re a very special person.”

In fact, she seems to have that effect on every grump I know. She had the same effect on Victor, turning him from pessimistic to excited for us.

“Okay,” she says, nodding. “Let’s do this.”

The team breaks off into smaller groups as we prepare for the interview. I guide Sera to a quiet corner. “You meant it, Sparkplug. You want to stay here.”

“Yes,” she murmurs, clasping my hands. “I want to be your partner: in business, in pleasure, in… in everything else.”

“In love,” I say fiercely. “In family. In the future.”

I kiss her with passion, and she claws onto me.

She pulls back after a minute and sighs. “We still have to fix the Damien situation.”

“Graham and Eleanor will be here this evening. We’ll handle that then. In the meantime, let’s get this video recorded and prepare for the press conference. I can’t wait to have you at my side.”

“I’m not stepping on any toes, am I? I meant what I said about not wanting special treatment.”

“Steve was telling the truth. You earned this.”

“I feel like I’m in a dream,” she murmurs. “No, that’s not right. A dream and a nightmare. Life keeps throwing me between the two.”

“Soon, it’ll just be a dream, our perfect dream, for the rest of our lives. I love you.”

“I love you too.” She hugs me, pressing her cheek against my chest. “I freaking love you. How does that feel so natural to say?”

“Because we’ve loved each other since the start.”