Chapter 16 Aera
Evo remains with me like he says he will. He stays at my side, keeping me warm, like a firm protective wall around me. I’m not sure if he sleeps, but I hope he does. He finds me food and water when I need it, helps me up so I can do my business, then carries me back to bed. And I sleep again.
On the second day, I wake, and consciousness returns with more clarity. My vision focuses on the mirrored metal wall beside the bed. Evo’s muscled arm is laced around my side and clutches me against his hot, shirtless, human body.
I shift so I can get a better look at him.
Evo’s eyelids flutter like he’s on the edge of waking up. He’s grown eyelashes in his human form, and a few freckles dot his face.
I don’t have freckles there.
His hair is a reddish medium brown color instead of his Titan carbon fiber hair. I slowly reposition so I can face him and watch as he sleeps...finally.
The soft glow behind his eyelids proves he is still a Titan inside. He breathes slowly and in a perfect, mechanical rhythm.
Evo’s breathing stops, his eyes brighten and open. “You’re awake.”
“Yeah. Who are you emulating?”
He smiles bashfully. “It doesn’t matter, does it?”
“You don’t look like me. I thought you matched who you touched.”
“Sure, but I was human once.”
“So this was you?” I run a finger over his soft cheek. “Freckles? Auburn hair?”
He grimaces. “You don’t like it?”
“If it’s you, I like it. Freckles to stardust. Cute.”
“Cute?” he sings out with a goofy smile. “I don’t think any male wants to be cute.” Evo tenses and flexes his pecks. “I’m a killing machine.”
I lean back to admire his chiseled torso. “Killing me by taunting me with that body for sure.”
He dances his brows. “For real though, are you feeling better?”
Hooking my leg over his hip, I pull myself in against his chest and kiss his lips. “Much. Thank you.”
Evo guides hair from my eyes and studies me like he doesn’t believe I could want him. He saved my life. He didn’t have to stay with me. And I know, because he’s free, he did so by choice. So he wants to stay close.
“Do you think you could ever want a human? I know you were promised Titan mates. I’m sorry we didn’t get around to building many female Titans.”
Evo’s hand weaves into my hair, and he guides my mouth to his with force. He guides my body atop his. His fingers crawl up my shirt and dig into my back with desperation like he can’t get enough of the way I feel against him.
His tongue finds mine and glides through my mouth like hot velvet. Evo’s cock swells between us with impressive strength.
He pulls back and closes his eyes. “Shit. Sorry. I’m not a monster. I’m not a monster.”
I kiss his lips. “You’re not.”
“Aera...” Evo peers up at me as his thumbs sweep gently over my sides. “My Masters used to take me on these ships. When I was on another one like this, they used to make me watch them take their anajas. They’d lock me into the chair.”
I glance at the chair at the foot of the bed, the one he nods toward.
“I...” Evo groans as his erection throbs again. “I want you more than anything I’ve ever wanted for myself. But...”
There’s no sense in talking him out of it. Evo needs proof he’s wanted. So I reach down and unbuckle his armored pants. I nip at his chest as I scoot down on the bed and work his titanhood free of his pants. Sliding my hand down his rigid length makes him quiver.
“Aera,” he rasps. “This is...”
I stroke his shaft again, hoping to distract him from getting lost in his headspace like Craze suggested could happen.
Evo’s body suddenly shifts from human skin to Magma to roiling black glitter, like he’s made of a million tiny obsidian crystals like Chasm. His stardust rises to the surface, then Evo returns to his human hues again.
This might be…interesting.
“I can’t... This isn’t right.”
“How?” I ask, bending over, eager for a taste of his massive length. Finding his base with my tongue, I drag it up and up to his soft, swollen tip, where a bead of minty pre-cum greets me in a sweet surprise.
“Fuck...” Evo grabs me by the shoulders and pulls me up to him with a lustful pant. “You have to stop. I don’t know what will happen if I blow. It could be a literal explosion, Aera. Jokes aside, I do not want to be the death of you. Besides, I was built to serve you.”
I start to protest, but he promptly rolls me on my back and quiets me with a finger to my lips. “Let me get one thing right.”
The sincerity in his voice and his eyes make me relent. But as he repositions himself, his huge cock still swinging free, rigid as hell and ready, I’m not sure I’m going to survive if I don’t get it in me soon.
Evo pushes my shirt up and kisses my chest. “You have put too much weight on your shoulders, Aera.” He unsnaps my bra and flings it aside.
His hot breath grazes my breasts. “So beautiful. Just the way you are. No augments, no mechanical parts. Just the best textures in the whole universe.”
He drags his hot tongue over my breast, swirling it around my nipple, tightening my bud.
Evo nips at it, sending tingling need through me.
He suckles me as he unbuckles my pants and works them and my panties off of my hips.
He hugs my thighs as he trails kisses down my navel, sinking lower and lower.
His tongue sweeps over my clit, sending a euphoric pulse through me. I draw in sharply, and Evo picks his head up. He gets a dark look in his eyes, then sits back, slides his arms between my legs, and cradles my hips. Then he draws my pussy to his mouth with force.
The glorious heat of his tongue spreads through my core and into every cold corner of my body. But it is the way he hums, like he enjoys it as much as I do, maybe more, that sends euphoric heat surging through me, banishing the last of the cold I’ve felt for days.
Evo releases a hand to massage a breast, then pulls me in tighter like he can’t get enough. He suckles and slurps up my nectar as he buries his mouth in my folds. And while I’m flying high among the stars from his touch, it’s not the thing I really want.
“Please... Evo.” I strain to pull him up to me.
“What? Am I doing something wrong?” he asks as he releases me and crawls up to inspect my face. “Is it too hard?”
I hook my heels around his backside and dig them in. “Please.”
Evo braces himself on the bed, blinking slowly like he’s trying desperately to control his own urges. “Aera... I could hurt you.”
“And I need you inside me. Now.”
The longing I have to be filled with him isn’t going to stop until I get what I want. I try to pull him close again and manage to feel his searing tip dip inside.
Evo grunts in lust and quivers as he resists. “Fuck.”
“I want you. Don’t take that away from me. And don’t lie and say you don’t want me back.”
He hangs his head and steadies himself. Evo picks up one of my hips and looks away like he doesn’t know why he’s doing what he is. “I want you, but you have to promise to kick me off of you if I lose control.”
“Fine.” I’ll say whatever it takes to ease this agonizing emptiness.
Evo kisses me, and I taste my musk on his lips. Then, slowly, he pushes inside.
Taking him is a challenge. His cock stretches my hips, spreading an exquisite pressure into my core that ratchets up my heart rate and thrusts a delicious agony through me.
I strain for a breath as his bond with me sets off a pulsing hunger for more, for all of him.
Before he’s all the way in, he eases out and bonds us again. With each thrust, I take him a little deeper.
Evo’s hands play in my hair. Sweat beads on his forehead. His thumbs grace the sides of my face. He pants with every rock of his hips. “Aera...”
His body shimmers between his stardust and his human skin tone. “I don’t think I’m going to last.”
Evo pushes in, and his rigid cock finds my deepest point. It sends such a rush through my body that I suck air in through my teeth. The tremors of climax begin, and I grip him hard.
“Oh...” Evo hangs his head close to mine as he pumps. His heat fills me again and again until even my toes feel it.
But it doesn’t stop. Evo becomes hotter by the second.
I open my eyes and look up at him as my skin starts to burn. What I see isn’t Evo but a dark body with orange crags in his synthflesh. “Evo!”
He looks down at his body, jerks himself out of me, and clambers back. “Shit!”
His body ripples over with Chasm’s dark glitter. “Did I hurt you?”
I have red marks on my skin from where he was just lying over me. He doesn’t even give me time to answer. When he sees them, Evo tears out of the room. I get up, my shirt falling back into place. The hum of the lowering ramp makes me scramble after him.
Evo staggers out into the field, his black and glittering body splitting open with light.
“Evo!”
He slows, stops, pants heavily, and looks back at me as he hunkers forward like he’s in immense pain. “I’m sorry, Aera.”
“What’s happening to you?” I ask, clutching my shirt against my skin in the breeze.
“I don’t know.” He gets brighter the more time passes. “I never know until it does whatever it’s going to do.”
He looks scared and like he feels alone and broken.
I don’t know what I can do to help him, only that he did one thing for me when I was lost, which helped fight through the chaos.
“I’m here,” I tell him.
Sadness flits through his eyes. Evo’s face contorts. He curls forward, drops to his knees in the field, cries out in pain, and shatters into millions of tiny fragments that disperse into the dusky sky.
It is so beautiful and heartbreaking to see that I stagger back. “Evo?”
I watch the particles, fearing I’m supposed to catch them or do something so the wind doesn’t blow what’s left of him away. A fragment of him hovers close to me, the facets reflecting light like a diamond. I reach out and gently take it from the air.
It settles heavily into my hand as tears fall from my eyes. I am alone on a distant, uninhabited planet with the only one who’s ever really understood how alone I’ve felt now in a cloud of pieces.
“I’m here, Evo,” I call to his essence. “If you can hear me, I’m still here. I’m not going anywhere. Take your time, but come back to me. Please come back.”
The wind ripples through my shirt with chilly fingers, but it can’t compete with the frost in my heart at what Evo has had to endure. If anyone deserves someone who will stick by them, it’s Evo.
I shuffle back to the ramp, sit on the edge, clutch the piece of him to my chest, and wait.
Please come back.
Please don’t leave me here without you.