I was finishing up the last finger when he caught my hand. I went to shoot him a glare at stopping me, but the expression on his face halted me. The skin around his eyes was bunched, his shoulders slumped and curling over his chest. The hand I had just finished cleaning was now clenched into a tight fist. Water poured off his frame, but it mixed with a fresh wave of tears.
The washcloth fell. and my free hand now worked to wipe away tears as quickly as they fell. My heart couldn’t bear anymore black marks marring his beautiful skin. “Don’t cry,” I pleaded, my stomach twisting at the sight of his pain.
“It wasmy formulathat nearly killed you, Poe,” his green shoulders shook. “And here you are, taking care of me like I deserve it.” He dropped my hand and backed away, his frame hitting the tile wall. “I don’t deserve any of this.”
Anger flared. This had to stop. I would not watch the man I love torment himself over something that wasn’t his fault. I didn’t know what had gone wrong, but there was no way Dax had hurt me on purpose. It had been a freak accident, something no one could have predicted. I pressed my body against his, reaching out to grasp his chin. “I want you to listen to me right now. Youdid nothing wrong. What happened wasnot your fault.”
“But I had been so confident nothing could go wrong, so sure of myself. Then all I could do was watch when it did, my brilliance completely useless to stop it. The sight of your body flaying on the table and the sound of your screams is forever burned in my processors.” His form stiffened under the water, his emerald eyes blazing as the horror of almost losing me wreaked havoc on his systems. He gripped my shoulders and I knew he was replaying what had happened.
“Look at me,” I commanded. “Bad things happen sometimes, Dax, and no amount of brilliance can stop them.”
He grasped the back of my neck, his forehead pressing against my mine. “Never to you,” he rasped.
I slammed my lips to his, silencing him. I kissed him frantically, desperate to taste him and rebrand him on my soul. He lips remained frozen beneath mine then he groaned, his hands capturing my face to hold me to him. His tongue pushed past the seam of my lips, devouring my mouth with the same desperation I felt. The world fell away as we reclaimed each other, and when we finally broke the kiss, we were both out of breath.
I pressed a kiss over his strong and steady pulse then slid my hand down his chest to find his heartbeat. It sped up to match mine and I smiled. “Don’t you know that you’re the only cyborg my heart looks for when the world gets dark?”
Chapter Forty
*Dax*
The warm water sliddown my form, cleaning away the weeks of neglect I had inflicted on my frame. It was the guilt I had been afraid of that would never wash away, but Poe had silenced it, cleansing the stain from my soul. Don’t get me wrong. I had learned my lesson. I planned to be much more careful in the future. My brilliance was a tool that needed to be used wisely.
But I had been given a second chance with my female. I would not waste it. “You brought me to life Poe. I can never go back to the life I had before you found me. My heart will always be here to guide you home.”
I leaned down to take her lips in another kiss, this one much softer. Her hands slid down my frame, capturing my hips to drag me even closer. Now that the words were out of the way and my guilt had lessened, my CPU finally caught up to the fact we were both very naked. I should be thinking about taking her to the lab to run tests or putting her back in bed so she can rest but desire flared, my cock hardening against her wet skin.
Heat blazed in my cheeks. She didn’t need sex right now. She was still fragile and weak and...holy hell, is she stroking my cock? The warm water made it easier for her to slide her hand up and down, her soft fingers gliding along my shaft.
“Knew I could distract you,” she whispered as she took a small step back, putting some space between our bodies so she could kneel. My ass hit the tile as I maneuvered my frame in the small shower to give her more room.No. What the hell was I doing?I reached down to grab her shoulders, attempting to lift her up off the floor, but she chose that moment to wrap her lips around my cock and my fingers moved to slide into her hair instead as I moaned.
Her lips stroked along my hard flesh the same as her hand had done, working to take as much of my length into her mouth as she could. In and out, over and over, she swallowed my cock until my head tipped back against the tile, a string of incoherent words falling from my mouth. I felt pretty sure I had lost control of over my vocal systems.
A wet pop echoed off the shower walls, then a cold rush of air swept over my cock instead of the warmth of Poe’s mouth. So close. I had been so close. I should beg...no, I should lift her up and drive into the warm, welcoming depths of Poe’s pussy instead...
“Eyes on me, Science Model. Watch me.”
My visual systems immediately complied, taking in the sight of her pink lips as they stretched back around to engulf my green cock. The sight boarded on obscene, the color contrast so startling that I sucked in a breath, nearly panting at the view. My baser instincts engaged, logic fleeing as I tapped into the parts of my programming that burned with the need to possess every inch of Poe, starting with her mouth.
My eyes never left the sight of her mouth working my cock, my fingers tightening in her hair as I let her take me right to the edge. It would be so easy. I could spill down her throat, give in to the overriding urge to come, but I resisted. There was something I wanted more. “Stop,” I ordered, and Poe froze, my cock slipping free of her mouth. Now that her lips had lost their prize, they turned down into a frown, her eyes narrowing into a glare.
“Why did you want me to stop? You better not be overthinking again. I swear, you must be the only cyborg who keeps analyzing things even when their female is sucking their coc-”
“Hush, beautiful. I have a better plan.”