15
The next day, Vee woke up to snores with an arm draped around her, holding her body tight against what she thought could only be a giant or a golem. Possibly a rock.
Part rock, she decided, feeling something hot and big pushing between the groove of her butt. Her heart thumped at the alien feel of Cypher’s cock. Hard and surreal, it dawned on her that she was no longer a virgin.
And it was this Cyborg, one who was probably three or four times her age with his arm hooked around her, who’d taken it. A Cyborg who, right now, she was being attacked for even associating with. One who had helped save humanity from enslavement and utter destruction not several generations past.
She scrunched her face, thinking of the hurtful messages painted on her apartment wall and her media page. Disgust for her kind grew. She’d always been a loner before, but now...
Now I want to scream and fight back.
Still aching as she listened to Cypher’s snores, Vee shuffled slowly out from his arm and, to her surprise, managed to climb out from the bed without waking him. She nearly tripped from soreness. Raw between her legs, she scurried bow-legged to the bathroom.
Inside, she found her wristcon that Cypher had removed from her last night and placed it back on. She swiped it and discovered it working, greeting her with a slew of messages. Her disgust grew even more. But the messages from Mia caught her attention.
Vee read them quickly. They reiterated what Cypher had already told her—a transfer of contract.
He paid for me.
He paid three million freaking credits.
Vee sagged a little.How am I ever going to repay him?
The ache between her thighs almost made her feel dirty.
She closed down her wristcon and scrubbed her face, emerging from the lavatory—and was met with Cypher, naked and godlike, sitting upright on the bed with his legs over the side, staring at her. His tousled hair draped around him like a chaotic halo.
“I don’t like you leaving my side without me knowing,” he murmured.
“I didn’t want to wake you…”
“Bears sleep deeply, more deeply than they should. I fall into hibernation too easily. From here on out, while we’re together, you are to wake me if I fall asleep and you rise first.”
“About that—”
“Come here,” he ordered.
Vee started and almost stepped forward, almost listening to him without thinking. She fisted her hands and remained still. “I want to repay you for what you did, buying my contract and freeing me, but I don’t want to repay you with my body,” she said.
“You tell me this when your breasts are out?”
She jerked her arms over her chest, glimpsing his hard cock between his open thighs. “It makes me feel dirty.”
“Come here.”
“No. You don’t own me.”
“You had no problem with me owning you last night.”
Her cheeks heated. “That was different…”
“How so?” He cocked a brow.
“I went in before knowing what you did—with the contract.”
“And you stayed even when I told you,” he countered. “Come here, Vee.”
Each time he told her to come, her belly fluttered.
