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“I said tell me. Or don’t. Happy to fuck the admission out of you right here.” Orion began to shove her dress up over her ass with his other hand, and she scrambled to keep it in place, pulling it down.
“Wait, wait. I…” Kaia moistened her lips and swallowed, trying to smooth her voice through her dry throat. She didn’t know what he wanted her to say. Fuck, she didn’t even know what she was fucking feeling.
His pupils were pins, tiny and darting between her eyes with an intensity she hadn’t seen even when they sparred. She sensed that they were both poised on the precipice of something—that he was waiting for her.Hadbeen waiting for her.
“I don’t know why I want this.” The admission came out in a rushed whisper.
Orion reached up to cradle her jaw with an enveloping hand. His palm shifted, the grip intensifying until he had her held firm. He bent forward to growl in her ear: “It's because we’re the same, Kaia.”
Her stomach lurched as he turned her head forcefully toward the now silent crowd. Hundreds of eyes watched as Orion pivoted her on the platform, having her stumble in a circle.
“Get a good look,” he muttered, his mouth at her ear skittering lightning under her skin.
The faces blurred together for a moment as Kaia met all the upturned eyes. Did they see how hard she was breathing? Did they notice her nipples under her dress? She was naked under their scrutiny, as though they’d look right through her clothes and know how wet she was.
“This is my fiancé,” Orion’s booming voice came muffled through the rush in her ears. “Take a look at her. In less than a year, she will be your commander’s spouse.”
A murmur burst the bubble of silence at those words, rising voices blending like their eyes.
Kaia was pretty sure he wasn’t supposed to say that.
But Orion was already hopping off the platform, lowering her to the ground. The volume escalated, the crowd unsure whether to part or get closer as the questions began. Orion pushed past them, keeping her shielded with his body as he hustled her forward, sweeping the people out of the way with massive arms.
The river of bodies was only getting denser, but everything was a blur, muted behind that primal need pumping in her core.
“What do you mean less than a year?”
“What does that mean, Mr. Halen?”
“Is Mare Halena Uploading?”
Orion slapped his palm to a gene reader. It took moments for his blood to be tested and the door to slide open. He shoved her into the blood passage, slinking in himself as the entry snapped shut behind them.
When Kaia had enough space to turn around and look at him, he was sucking the blood casually from the pricks on his palm, staring at her from beneath hooded brows.
“I don't think that was a good idea… I thought your mother’s cancer was a secret.”
“It was time.”
Kaia backed up until the wall of the passage was at her back. The sudden, complete silence invoked a dreadful apprehension. There were no more eyes or murmurs. But it was all still there, that thing she’d admitted to, and she had a feeling he saw it in her like it was a fucking beacon lighting his way.
He was on her with inhuman speed. Hard hands pulled her up for another brutal kiss. Their tongues met in a hungry assault as her mind took a back seat while her body responded. Seams protested, then snapped. Her dress was ripped and discarded. The cool air of the passage prickled her skin. She winced as her fingers caught on the spikes at the back of his neck, drawing blood.
He slammed his hips against her, grinding her against the wall as her red-slick fingers found purchase in his shoulder. It was slippery, just like the exorin oozing from his tongue into her mouth. She found herself compelled to take his tongue between her lips, suckling the substance like it was water.
This was a bad idea.
But he was already shredding her panties and casting them aside.
“Orion, I—”
He swallowed her moans and rewarded her with his own. His hands moved lower. Metal clattered as he fumbled with his pants, and a moment later the searing flesh of his spiked cock pressed flat against her slit.
This was bad. So bad. Really, really bad. Because while it had been the exorin and the hurt she’d been worried about all along, Kaia was just lucid enough through her haze of unthrottled desire to realize that the real thing she should’ve been afraid of snuck up on her like a dagger to the back.
She cried out when he entered her, punching her into the wall. Too big for comfort, he stretched her open with a pang. He didn’t stop when his thickness mandated her to conform to him. Sweat and skin bunched under her nails as she reacted by instinct, clawing and coming forward to clamp her teeth into his shoulder through a wet hiss as her body was forced to mold around the intrusion.
Orion persisted, each unyielding shove of his cock opening her up a little more. The raw ache of it twisted into something other. Hard hands dug into her ass and thighs, holding her up, and her body didn’t seem to give a shit about the terrifying realization her mind just had. It parted its legs, wrapped them around the waist of rock-hard muscle. It devoured with its eyes the ladder of bulging abs rippling between them. It gazed up to his face, lines of shimmering silver dripping down his chin through parted lips, droplets splattering to her chest.
