Zero's Heart - Mina Carter Page 0,27

surrender in the back of her throat as her hands bunched in his shirt. Her taste exploded through him again, that little sound getting him hotter and harder than he’d ever been in his life.

Warning, elevated hormonal levels and heart rate, his onboard announced in the back of his head. Recommend sexual intercourse to reduce levels.

No shit. He silenced his onboard and tightened his fist in her hair. Pulling her head back, he kissed along the slender column of her throat. They were hard, almost biting kisses that he couldn’t control… that he didn’t want to control. Hard and fast. He wanted her more than he’d ever wanted a woman in his life.

Pulling back, he looked down at her, and the sultry look in her half-lidded eyes sent a surge of arousal through him. His cock, trapped against the exam bed, jerked savagely.

“Make a choice,” he told her, barely recognizing his own voice. “Tell me to go, or I’m going to fuck you right here and now.”

“I…” She blinked and wetted her lips. Her eyes were dark with heat and desire.

He groaned, the sound turning to a growl more feral than any sound he’d ever made. “Don’t do that or I won’t be responsible for my actions.”

She shook her head. “But why? In case you missed it, Zero, I’m a fucking cripple. This will not get better. Ever. I’m done.”

He pulled back his lips in a soft snarl. “One… do you think I give a crap about whether you can walk or not? One of my original crewmates was embedded in a fucking ship for god’s sake. And two… you’re like me, a cyborg. We’re fucking modular, baby. We can fix you.”

“A ship?” She shook her head. “I’m not a cyborg… wait, did you say you can…” The hope in her eyes speared him to the core. “You can fix me?”

He nodded, sliding a hand around her waist and pulling her toward him. At the same time, he altered her position, making her sit up. Like a bulldozer, he forced his hips between her thighs. His heart sang as she welcomed him, her hand sliding up the side of his neck as he claimed her lips again.

This kiss was only marginally less bruising than the first. He’d intended to be gentler but didn’t have it in him. She was a fire in his blood and he couldn’t get enough, would never be able to get enough. He’d suspected it from the moment he’d first seen her, but now he knew for sure. She was his.

And he was irrevocably hers.

The kiss went supernova in a heartbeat. He broke away with a gasp to trail kisses along her jaw and down the slender column of her throat. Her hands stroked over his shoulders, pausing for a second as she registered the metal of his shoulder. He pulled back, stripping the shirt off in less than a second to drop it on the floor behind them.

He didn’t say anything, simply watching her face as she took him in. Sitting on the edge of the bed as she was, he couldn’t miss how tiny she was compared to him, and a thrill of arousal speared through him. He’d never thought of himself as the sort to find a woman’s fragility appealing, but he found he liked being larger and stronger than Eris. He could protect her, look after her… and that fed a need deep inside he hadn’t realized he had.

Her face was rapt, her dark gaze flicking to his as he took her hand and pressed it against his shoulder.

“It’s okay,” he rasped, voice heavy with need. “You can touch it.”

“You can feel that?” she whispered, her voice low and intimate, just between them. His cock throbbed at the husky tones and then went into near meltdown as her fingers stroked the join between his skin and the metal of his arm. He managed to nod.

“My cybernetics are as sensitive as human flesh,” he was talking but had no idea where the words were coming from. His mouth was merely filling in while his brain was occupied studying the shape of her lips and the beauty of her face. “More onboard sensors as well.”

“Good.”

She leaned in, her lips brushing against his chest just below the hollow of his throat. He groaned, his head dropping back as she trailed soft kisses along his collarbone. His hand slid through the silken length of her hair, returning to cup the back of her neck gently as