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Orion had his head tilted back and was watching her. Kaia was in some deep shit, and she wasn’t sure the knife would really stop him once his patience ran out.
“Do it then.” His voice was hoarse as he tried to remain still. “Get it out of your system, princess.”
Kaia sucked her lower lip into her mouth, clenching her jaw as her fist clamped harder in his hair. He didn’t protest.
“You’ll kill me,” she said.
Shit. She was distracted with searching his eyes as he grabbed her knife-wielding hand in his own, taking her by surprise. She jerked back, but he held her firm.
“We’re not that different, Kaia. You know the funny thing? I think in some ways you’re more fucked up than I am. More vindictive, that’s for sure.”
“Fuck you,” she spat. “You started this. If anything, this is a lesson.”
“Teach me then. I insist.” Kaia resisted as Orion increased the pressure on her hand, but it was no use. Their hands shook with the silent fight, but of course, he won. A streak of blood seeped around the edge of the blade.
It was all wrong. This wasn’t revenge or a lesson at all, because he was inflicting it on himself. Forcing her into itagain.
With a snarl, Kaia yanked Orion’s head to the side by the fistful of hair she still held. He released her as she leaned forward and repositioned herself over him. Squinting with concentration, she positioned the knife at the underside of his chin. She didn't flinch as the point broke new skin. She drew it up along his jawline, then down the side of his neck.
“Good girl,” he whispered.
“Shut the fuck up.” This wasn’t for him. He didn’t get to praise her here.
The act of retribution was less satisfying than she’d have hoped, especially when she realized he was still fucking hard beneath her as she straddled him. She was positioned over his abs, but his cock jutted up against her inner thigh.
When she was done, Kaia kept the point of the blade at the center of his throat, panting as she stared at the trail of blood she’d left. She crawled off him slowly. Only when he made no move to stop her did she withdraw the bloody knife, keeping it in hand.
“Feel better?” he asked up at the ceiling.
No.
“Yeah.”
They lay on their backs, coming down from whatever perverted high they were just on. Kaia drew the back of her forearm over her mouth, wiping the last traces of exorin from her lips.
She definitely feltsomething. She felt herself wanting friction between her legs. She felt herself getting wet. She felt her nipples pebble in the cold now that the heat of him was gone. But she didn’t feel that buzz she’d read about. That exorin chase. She didn’t feeldrunk on him—only incredibly, incredibly desperate.
It wasn’t ideal. She shouldn’t be turned on by the uhyre who assaulted her two weeks ago. But it was better than the other thing. And she was confident she could deal with it.
CHAPTER43
ORION
When Orion entered the commander’s office the next day, he was a little distracted. So it took him a moment to register her hastily swiping projections off the thermaview as a man in a lab coat straightened from hunching over her desk.
Orion halted, brow cocked, as he took the man in.
“Orion. You may remember Ptolin Geeson, head of gene tech.”
“Afraid not,” he said as the man shuffled past him and out the door, all among a few seconds of tense silence.
When they were alone, Orion slumped into the swivel seat across her table.
“Mother.”
“What happened to you?” Mare Halena glared at his neck. What she would be seeing, the same thing Orion saw that morning in the mirror, was a crude carving running down the side.
He shrugged. “Nothing important.”
