When he returned and gently parted her legs to cleanse her, she blushed, looking impossibly innocent, but his guilt had eased with her obvious pleasure and satisfaction.
“You don’t have to do that,” she protested weakly.
“I enjoy tending to you, little bird.”
Her color deepened, but she didn’t object as he gently wiped away the glistening traces of his seed from her reddened flesh. Useless seed thanks to Earth Government sterilizing all of the cyborgs. Of course, the rangers had since discovered that their nanites could heal that process as well. Once again the thought of her carrying his child made his cock stiffen, but he did his best to ignore it as he finished cleansing her.
She smiled up at him, as flushed and sleepy in her tempting nest of a bed as he’d imagined, and held out her hand.
“Come back to bed.”
He obeyed willingly, and she snuggled against him with a contented sigh, her soft body fitting perfectly against his side as if she’d always belonged there.
She does belong with me. How am I ever going to let her go?
“Levi, is something wrong?”
“Just thinking.”
“Well, stop.” She gave his chest an admonitory pat. “Let’s just enjoy the moment.”
He wasn’t sure the future could be so easily dismissed, but he nodded and commanded his nanites to relax his muscles. Her hand ran up and down his chest lazily, but despite her words, she also seemed to be in a thoughtful mood.
“Do you miss Earth?” she suddenly asked.
“Not really. I told you that I didn’t have any family, and while there is a bond between soldiers I was never really close to anyone in particular.” He had refrained from casual friendships, just as he had refrained from casual relationships. “What about you?”
She shrugged, the movement causing her breasts to rub enticingly against his side.
“I miss some things—like being able to walk outside without a facemask. But then I never had any reason to go anywhere other than first to school and then to work. I didn’t really have any close friendships either, other than with my mother.”
Her voice quivered on the last word, and he pulled her closer.
“What happened to her?”
“A stupid accident—one of those old transit trains went off the rails and all of the passengers were killed.”
It wasn’t the first time he’d heard of such an incident. The old systems were pushed far beyond their limits in a hopeless effort to keep up with the ever-increasing population. Despiteeverything Earth Government had tried to do to stop it, there were simply too many people on Earth.
“I’m so sorry, little bird. It must have been hard to lose someone you loved so much so suddenly.”
“We were so close—or at least I thought we were until I found out about my father.”
The hurt on her face made his chest ache, but then she gave him a rueful smile.
“Maybe I was just naive. It didn’t occur to me that a woman—even a mother—might want to have a relationship with a man as well as a relationship with her child. But then I didn’t know how satisfying it would be…”
Her words echoed in his head as her hand traveled down to his cock. She thought that they had a relationship? Did that mean he could spend the night? What about the next day, and the next?
His thoughts were interrupted by the soft slide of her hand along his shaft as she leaned closer, studying his once again fully erect cock.
“Earlier, when you were… stroking me.” Her cheeks had turned that pretty shade of pink again. “It felt like you vibrated.”
“I did.” Her eyes widened as he sent another vibration through his cock, and he smiled. “It’s one of the benefits of being a cyborg—I have control over the various parts of my body.”
Although she certainly tested the limits of his control.
“I see.”