MY HAND SLIPPED INTOPoe’s and we moved down the hallway. Only after I had run three separate scans on Marley and Ever had Acer been appeased enough to allow us to leave. Although Poe had been rather reluctant to part with Ever. I had to promise we would visit again soon in order for Poe to hand Ever back to Marley with a groan of unhappiness. Ever had clearly won over my female’s heart. I understood the feeling. Ever had won over every single manufactured heart in the entire cyborg rebellion.
“Where to now?” Poe questioned, her fingers tightening around mine.
“I thought I’d leave that up to you. We could visit the common room, the training center, the lab, or head back to our quarters.”
“Trying to take me back to the room so you can get me naked, Science Model?” She gave my frame a nudge.
I halted my steps, pulling her into my frame and captured her face with my hands. “The thought had crossed my processors.” I leaned down, nuzzling her hair, breathing in her scent. Poe claimed I smelled like vanilla. I knew the fragrance. It delightfully wafted up from a stack of waffles and whipped cream, but I couldn’t claim the scent came from me.
To my scent receptors I smelled like a cyborg.
Poe, on the other hand, smelled like warm lab coats straight from the flash dryer. Fresh. Clean. The comforting scent of home. I could bask in her scent forever. My lab coats now paled in comparison. They certainly didn’t hug back or offer kisses that melted my processors. I hugged Poe a bit tighter to my chest.
She melted against my frame.“As much as I want to get naked with you, I would love to go and see where the magic happens.”
“Magic. What magic?” I felt my brow crease. Magic was a human construct that so far, I had been able to debunk. Every reference to magic in my databases, once examined, had to led to logical explanations for the occurrences. There was no place in cyborg headquarters where the “magic” happened.
“You know most human males would tell me that I have already seen where the magic happens.” She wiggled her eyebrows at me.
I frowned. Usually more information helped me figure things out. In this case, it was simply confusing my processors more.
Poe lifted her arms tossing them around my neck and my frame shivered at the contact. Pleasure rumbled through my system, spiking my heart rate. My once manageable cock decided to rise to the occasion, ignoring my commands and hopeful as the rest of me that she wanted another round of relations.
It wasn’t logical. We were standing in the middle of the hallway, fully visible to anyone who happened to walk past. There was a time when Miss. Marley and Acer had come into my lab and she mentioned that she had almost had relations with Acer in the hallway in front of Iris, Dash, and Reaper. I had never seen a human turn that shade of red before. My conclusion had been that she hadn’t wanted every cyborg in the lab to know that piece of information, but she said it anyway to in order to reassure Acer.
Human females were private. It didn’t take my brilliant processors to know that Poe would not want to engage in intercourse with me in the hallway. Even so, I struggled to bring my circuits under control. My reactions to Poe were not rational or logical. For someone who had logic as a base program in his CPU, it should terrify me, but instead I craved it.
I craved her.
She rose up on her tiptoes, kissing the corners of my frown. “You don’t have a clue what I’m talking about, do you?”
I opened my mouth, but my circuits refused to admit it.
“Not knowing isn’t always a bad thing, Dax. I don’t have the brain power your CPU has, but do you think less of me for it?”
“Never.” I declared vehemently. Poe was brilliant in her own way. She brought sunshine and joy into my life. She was funny and adventurous, shaking up my circuits, making me feel alive.
She tapped a finger against the side of my skull. “I could practically see the circuits in there spinning. If your CPU worked any harder on figuring out what I meant, I am afraid it might have started to smoke. Not understanding something doesn’t mean you are any less brilliant, got it?”
I captured her hand, dragging it down to my lips to turn it over, placing a kiss to her palm. “Understood. Now, do you care to inform my processors as to exactly where the magic happens for humans?”
Her cheeks blushed a lovely shade of pink. “Well, usually a human male will say that the magic happens in the bedroom because of the sex.”
Ah. Now it all made sense. Yes, if magic existed, it would be when I was having intercourse with my female. “I would have to agree. Engaging in sex with you is indeed magical.” My form tingled, lips parting to reveal a wide grin. “It shuts down my processors. Nothing has ever done that before.” I leaned in, my finger trailing down her cheek, “And based on your vocalizations and the way your body responds to me, I can conclude that it’s magic for you too.” I didn’t resist the urge to playfully wriggle my eyebrows.
Her head hit my chest. “Ugh. I’ve created a monster. A beautiful, brilliant, sexy green monster.” She raised her chin. “But before that big beautiful brain of yours gets any sexy ideas, the magic I was referring to in this case was the kind you create in your lab. I want to see Dax in all his glory.” She smiled. “All his lab coat glory.”
She wants to see my lab.No one wanted to see my lab unless they needed something from me. Being the only Science Model had made it hard to find anyone else interested in the things I found fascinating. Dr. Shaw had been the only one who enjoyed the things I did, but our close relationship had only led to more teasing and resentment from the other cyborgs. I couldn’t help the fact that I had been the first or that because of my intelligence, I had been allowed to stay with her. Considered to be Dr. Shaw’s golden boy had made it so none of the other cyborgs wanted to spend time with me.
Poe wanted me. She wanted the parts of me no one had ever wanted before. “It would be my honor to show you my lab.” I bent down, capturing her smiling mouth with a kiss.
She broke the kiss. “You’re going to wear the lab coat, right?”
I grabbed her hand. “Of course. It’s my signature look.”
She slid her fingers into mine, tugging me quickly down the hallway. “Faster, Science Model. Lab coat plus you equals sexy.”
My female was perfect.