Page 123 of GlitchBorn Heart

“You’re smart, Taiyō. You’ll figure it out...eventually.” It’s not a command, just certainty, like he already knows how this movie ends. “Not because I’ll force the truth on you, and not because I need you to believe in me.”

His hand slides to the back of my neck, pulling me closer, just enough that I feel the gravity of him.

“You’ll want to know what makes me dangerous,” he continues quietly. “And when you do, you’ll realize it was never about hunting your kind. It was about holding the line between chaos and annihilation.”

A deliberate pause.

“If I were the monster you think I am”—his eyes lock onto me, his expression deadly serious—“you wouldn’t still be breathing.”

His lips hover over mine, heat radiating between us. My chest rises, and before I can shove him away, he consumes me.

Another kiss hits like an electric surge, no warning, no hesitation. His mouth claims mine, hungry and unrelenting, and I hate how quickly I give in. My tongue meets his, my hands fisting in his collar, tugging him closer this time instead of pushing him back.

Kael growls low in his throat, a sound that’s not even human, more like the dark dragon in one of my dreams. He tilts my head back, deepening the kiss, his tongue sweeping against mine until my knees buckle. I’m melting and burning all at once, fire and ice, anger bleeding into want until I can’t tell them apart.

“Say it,” he murmurs against my lips. “Say you want me...that I make you feel alive, human.” He wraps his lotus blossom-inked hand around my hair, holding me in his grip. It glows deep orange.

I gasp, but my shock is lost between the next kiss and his sudden movement. His hand stays, tightening, dragging my neck back until I feel him devour my throat with his lips. He lifts me onto the center console, my legs straddling him. His erection presses into me, a delicious reminder against my throbbing pussy that I can still feel. Heat coils so violently inside me I think I might shatter right here.

The world narrows to just Kael and I. His mouth, his grip, the way he devours me like I’m both salvation and damnation. I whimper, unable to keep my composure, and his answering smirk is sinful.

He lifts me in one motion, pressing my back against the cold wall beside the monitors, his body caging mine. “I’m warning you,” he moans, hips pinning me, his hardness pulsing against my aching core. “You don’t get to play with fire without getting burned.”

My head swims, my breath broken, my magic starting to return, sparking wildly, making me feel whole again. I grind against him. “Touch me, Kael.”

No hesitation. His inked fingers slide into my panties, circling my clit, then gliding through my slickness. “So fucking wet for me, Taiyō. You’re going to test my self-control to its fullest.” I hear the holo-light snap as he rips my panties off. “Come on my fingers again or on my face?”

And that’s when I realize we’re about to go too far. I want him to taste me. I want to be ruined by his mouth. But I can’t trust I’ll be able to resist him if it goes further than that. It’s a promise of destruction. One that I want to experience with him as a living, breathing human.

I wrench my mouth from his, gasping. “We should stop,” I manage, though my body screams the opposite. “Eli, the rescue, LINK...we have to focus. If we don’t stop now, I won’t be able to say no to you. You promised to give me all of you when I’m whole again, so I can feel every sensation you give me, Kael.”

For a heartbeat, I see it, the war in his eyes. Possession battling restraint. Then, slowly, he removes his hand and lowers me to my feet. His chest is heaving, lips still grazing mine. “Ahh...” A guttural growl. He steps back and readjusts his tented pants.

“You’re right,” he whispers darkly. “We promised. We won’t. Not now.” His gaze pins me, lethal and wanting. “I can wait...until I get you back into a body. But when that day comes, that’s when it will happen, Little Taiyō. I can’t wait to ruin that pussy of yours with my cock and my mouth. I want you to feel it, all of it, multiple times and whole again.”

He lunges at me like a wild animal, hands splayed on either side of my head. Not for another kiss, not quite. His mouth drags slowly along my jaw, down the tender line of my throat. I feel his hand wrap inside my hair, and he tugs it forcefully. A slight sting to my scalp.

I gasp, clutching at his shoulders, but he doesn’t stop. His lips are soft, then suddenly sharp, teeth grazing just enough to make me shiver.

“Kael...” My voice breaks. I mean it as a warning, but it comes out like a plea.

He smirks against my skin and then bites. He’s not gentle, he’s possessive and predacious. An abrupt prick blooms into heat, and I can feel my pulse pounding against his mouth as if he’s drinking it in. “Ouch! Kael, what the...?”

When he pulls back, his bottom lip has a tiny bit of blood on it. Even as a hologram, he’s coded me so well I bleed for him. “I coded you with synthetic blood and flesh. Just a reminder that you are very much still human.” My hand goes to my throat, and I feel it, the bruise already forming. A mark. His mark.

“Now,” he says, voice rough, “every time you see yourself on the screens, you’ll remember what you are.” His gaze pins me. “Still human and mine.”

Frustration surges, but so does pride. I shove him back, my voice shaking. “You don’t get to own me, Kael Ryudon.”

He wipes his mouth with the back of his hand, smiling devilishly. “That’s the thing, Taiyō. I don’t need to own you.” He leans in one last time, close enough for me to feel his breath on my lips. “You already gave yourself to me willingly.”

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