We stare at each other in the silence for a moment too long. I can’t believe the shit I’ve said to him in the past five minutes. I’m still wet.
And he is…
…I’d do it, is all I’m saying.
Rhyss exhales through his nose, an exhausted, controlled breath that’s probably the only thing keeping him from strangling me. Then he stands, extending a hand without looking at me.
“You’re coming with me,” he says.
“What?” I blink. “No. I told you I’m fine?—”
“You’re not going to medical, you’re not staying in the lab, and I’m not letting you out of my sight until I’ve run a full diagnostic on your vitals.” His voice is clipped. “You want to keep your funding, Walker? You’re going to doexactlyas I say.”
That should not turn me on.
…maybe it’s just a residual effect of my orgasm machine.
“You’re taking me home with you?” I ask.
“Yes,” he says.
“Why?”
“Because you can’t be trusted not to return to the lab,” he says. “You’re addicted to the work. I’m going to force you to rest.”
I’d be okay with him forcing me to do a lot of things?—
Okay.
Yeah.
Residual effects.
I let him pull me to my feet, wobbly and flushed, and try not to wince as the slick between my thighs reminds me of exactly what he just witnessed.
He doesn’t say anything else, just picks up the translator like it’s radioactive and stalks toward the door.
And I follow, because I’ve already blown past shame, sanity, and self-preservation tonight?—
Might as well add spending the night with my supervisor to the list.
CHAPTER 6
KAELION
“Kae…Kaelion, please…”
Her voice repeats in my head the whole way back to my apartment, the two of us sitting in silence beside each other on the train from the university. Lyn’s voice…Lyn on the floor of the lab, writhing and warm and wanting. Lyn, compromised by her own genius.
Lyn…who I never saw like that until tonight.
And now?
Now I can’t stop.
“I can really go home,” she says from beside me, her knee bopping up and down incessantly. “I promise I won’t go back to the lab.”
“We both know the risk is too great,” I say.
