Page 82 of White Noise

I pull the cable loose from beneath the desk and let it hang from my hand. A faint charge skips along the exposed end, bright enough to reflect across her face.

“Seeing what happens when I stop being careful.”

Her brows lift. “Was that supposed to scare me?”

A laugh slips out before I can stop it.

Humans are fucking strange. They always need to name what they’re feeling, as if fear becomes manageable once they can identify it.

“I don’t need you scared anymore.”

Saga’s brow lifts. “Wow. Look at you, upgrading or whatever.”

I smile. “Don’t get too excited, little echo. It still gets me off.”

Her eyes narrow. “That’s reassuring.”

“It wasn’t meant to be.”

I step toward her, dragging the cable loosely through my fingers while the charge running through it grows stronger. Saga watches the movement, jaw tight, but that familiar spark of defiance is still sitting behind her eyes.

She thinks she knows what I’m capable of now, but she has no fucking idea..

What happened between us before was instinct. Hunger. A new body learning what human flesh felt like wrapped around something made of current.

This is different.

Now I know enough about her and her body’s reactions to be deliberate.

I stop directly in front of her and let the cable brush against the outside of her thigh. The contact is harmless, but her breath changes anyway and my mouth curves.

Saga catches it immediately. “Don’t look at me like that.”

“Like what?”

“Like you’ve already won.”

I lean closer. “Oh but I have.”

Her eyes narrow. “Cocky fucking bastard.”

The signal thickens around us, spreading through the room until every monitor wakes at once. Not just the ones on the desk. The security feeds. The webcam, even the dead screen in the Anything with a fucking lens I can watch through.

One by one, they fill with different angles of Saga standing in front of me, until there is nowhere in the room she isn’t being seen.

Her head turns slowly as she notices.

“What the fuck?”

“I’m not missing any of it.”

Her eyes snap back to mine.

I step closer, winding the cable once around my fist.

“This time, youre pretty little body breaks for me, I want every fucking angle.”

A flicker of fear moves across her face and it sends a jolt of current right to my cock.