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“A pinch of cinnamon, some saffron, and some of the instant heat that the Z-Corp chemists have been working on.” Amadine smiled. “You can still taste it, huh? How much did you get?”
Ondine sighed and walked out of the study. Having read a ton of romances, Amadine thought that sex locked everything together. She had been urging Ondine that way for months. Even if she was by herself.
She dumped the hot chocolate out, and part of her wailed. It was her favourite. She rinsed out the cup and washed it, then dried it and put it away.
“So, your sister is dosing you?” Geero came in as she stood with her hands braced on the counter.
“I guess that is it. She’s read a lot. She thinks that if I throw myself at you out of desperation, a bond will be formed, and we can proceed from there. She doesn’t count on me freaking out before or during and definitely after. That never happens in her books.”
“So, she gave you an aphrodisiac?”
“She did. It will burn out in a few hours. With the amount I took in, it won’t be strong.” She shrugged. “More like a hot tingling than anything else.”
Geero raised his brows. “Anything I can help with?”
“No. Thank you though. If I need to, I will find some clean snow outside and chill things a bit or just sleep in Titan.”
“Wait. Has she done this before?”
“Yeah. I got dosed once when she first got the compound. I thought I had confiscated it all.” She grunted. “She can guess most of my passwords, and I am guessing she got into my safe.”
“You aren’t mad at her?”
“Not really. Looking through her eyes at us, sex is a likelihood. She just doesn’t want you getting away now that you and I are getting along. She’s using teen logic.” She smiled. “Titan is already the big secret. There has already been an attack on the house with you defending it. The baby is the second big secret, so I think we have ticked all the boxes for one of her stories under her third pen name.”
“So, we are just missing the happily ever after?”
“Yeah. She will just make that up.” Ondine chuckled.
“Is that why she keeps running in and out of her room?”
“Yup. She’s writing.”
“So, she’s a six-year-old clone with an adult intellect, an activation, and the emotional development of a teen, and she writes romances? I am so relieved that I got the lovely warrior’s attention.”
She blushed. “Well, you were the only mostly naked guy in the room.”
He grinned. “I guess, in a true book, there would have been a lineup of us.”
“Uh, no. That would be porn. Pay attention.” She smirked. “I know there are a lot of actives that need others to stay sane and healthy, others that need protection. I am in neither of those categories. I am good with one, but I want to make sure that the person I end up with is good with just one as well. I can’t be part of a harem of either sex.”
He nodded. “Me neither. I just want a mate to curl around and hold in the night.”
Her heart ached with how good that sounded. Curling up on the couch with Amadine just wasn’t the same.
She looked at him. “That isn’t fair.”
“I didn’t sign up with the BDC just because I wanted to get laid. I could have sex if I wanted, but that lost its appeal when there was no one to come home to.” He chuckled. “The fact that my brother has already found a partner is a sore point. Well, not so much sore as it has made me aware that I was alone. So, in an effort not to be alone and to meet active women, I signed up, went through the medicals, left a sample that, apparently, has been used, and waited to be called. I had a few dates, but then I got the call for Amadine, and things took a weirdly cheerful turn. I genuinely like coming here on a date, and she is always happy to see me.”
Ondine looked at her silver armour next to the door. There was blood splattered across it. “I am glad she makes you feel happy.”
“Not happy, just cheerful.” He smiled. “Like meeting a friend or family member. Nothing else.”
She felt the heat in her genitals and sighed. “Well, since we don’t have a guestroom, you can take my room, and I will sleep on the couch in my study.”
He frowned. “I don’t want to put you out. I can literally go and sleep in the snow. It is really comfortable in my other form.”
“Do youwantto sleep outside?”
