“You are becoming my world.The rest will ebb and flow around us.”He stroked her hair.“Or I could have a workshop set up for you on one of my other worlds, and we could make our home there while this world slowly wakes up.”
“I want to stay here in the long run, but how many people can stay at Sanctuary?”
“Two thousand.There are enough base materials, food, and water systems to support two thousand.”
“Well, first, we spend some time finding as many of my friends as possible, and then we see who wants to write research papers on waking a world.”
“See?You are the perfect consort and companion.”He stroked a hand down her back, cupped her ass, and lifted her thigh, sliding one of his in between.“Are you able to rest now?”
She smiled.“Let me remember a few more.”
Trin curled against him, stroking his back and murmuring the names and remembering the descriptions of her friends.Everyone came to a garage and repair shop when they passed through, and Trin was only allowed to talk to the girls.Her grandpa had his own hangups.
“He didn’t want you finding a partner?”
“No.He committed to being my caretaker, which meant he was protecting me against everything and everyone.He never talked about me having children of my own, if that gives you a clue.”
“Would you want children of your own?”
She looked at his dark eyes and laughed.“I would, and I do, and I know you do because I read the contract.”
“It is one of the things we are designed to want.Well, we are designed to want a consort; we are given the knowledge to adapt them to us.”
“Wow.I was just given the order to never be naked alone with a man.”
“Oh, dear.You are breaking a taboo?”
She smiled and moved up to kiss him.“You are a Hmrain.It’s a loophole I intend to exploit.You weren’t covered by his rules.Besides, you aren’t naked, you are wearing me.”
He laughed and held her head as they kissed.His tongue slid along hers and stroked slowly with a rhythm that became her entire focus.
Birun slipped a hand between them and began to stroke her sex with two fingers.
Trin held still, and he lifted his head from hers.
“You can move against my fingers, Trin.Your body is mine to enjoy, and your body is yours to enjoy.And my body is yours to do with as you will.”His voice rumbled across her senses, and she felt a low shiver starting.
“Fine, but keep your voice to yourself,” she muttered.
“No.It’s amazing.I can actually feel your arousal increasing when I hit certain frequencies.”He kissed her lightly.“Do any other voices set you off?”
“No.I let Boss choose things down to the final five voices, all masculine and all with the sort of same timbre.He used your voice, but he was watching me.The moment I reacted, he locked it in.”
“Boss has an interesting fascination with you.”
She smiled.“Yeah, well, everyone dipped their fingers into his programming.I used direct data transfer via halo.”
He paused.“What?”
“It was one of my designs that has probably been designed somewhere else.It’s the easiest way to program nanites.You put on a halo and think about what you want the nanites to do.If it doesn’t go against their base programming, they learn and take it on for future use.”
“Who programmed Boss?”
“Me, my grandfather, Nebel, and a few expe.rts on Bellen.My grandfather brought the canister, and they made a drinking game of it.Drunk inventors are a nightmare.That is why Boss has so much weird whimsy.”
He laughed, and the sound moved along her skin, causing her nipples to pebble and clit to throb.She whined softly, and his fingers moved slowly inside her.He guided her to her first orgasm, and she clutched at him as her sex pulsed around his digits.
He smiled and brushed his lips against hers.“That was wonderful, Trin.”
