35. DreamDestiny
DreamDestiny
Playlist: Something Was Real - Eli it’s better. Amplified. Much more focused.
Intimate in a way a flesh-and-blood encounter sometimes isn’t. I’m already hard again, pressing my cock against her as I fuck her with my fingers.
She closes her eyes, tilts her head back, and breathes my name. “Kael.” Pleasure courses through her soft synthetic skin. Her magic pushes back, delivering a burst of trembling pixels that scatter throughout her entire body, causing her to glow brighter.
My name again. It detonates something feral in my chest.
I watch the way her jaw moves, the way the holo-light tightens around her breasts. The system pings again and logs a large spike of energy.
DATA OVERLOAD
LINK confirms what I already know. She’s close, her climax building. I make a mental note to never delete that log file and to replay it daily.
When she comes, and she does, it’s with an explosion of light and sound. I say nothing. I simply hold her through it, my body still pressing against hers.
Her orgasm is both digital and human. A rush of light, a stutter of code, a soft sound that might have been a raspy moan. Her holo fades to almost pale as her breath evens out. Another ping, much louder. LINK keeps talking. Warnings continue to stack.
SYSTEM MAX: DATA LIMIT brEACH
DR. RYUDON PLEASE ADVISE
Lyra pulls back just enough to inhale, her eyes turning wild. “Kael,” she giggles. “Do something.”
I don’t even look at the screens. I ignore them all.
“I am doing something.” I smile, my voice somewhere between a low growl and a feral plea. Inside me, everything is roaring. Just like the system.
I keep my fingers inside her, relishing in her wetness. Her mouth is still on mine when LINK cuts through again.
SYSTEM STABLE
I keep my forehead pressed to hers, my other hand braced at her back like I’m holding the world in place. “That’s my good girl.” My tongue follows the line of her jaw. “You win the game, Little Taiyō.”
For a second afterward we’re both quiet, caught between the awe of what I built and the raw truth of what just happened. Surprisingly, there’s no smugness in me, only bliss and the heavy weight of her nearness.
But I’m still hungry for her.
“Just a little taste.” I remove my fingers and run them across my lips, coating them in her wetness before I kiss her. “Fuck, Taiyō, you taste so good, like lemon dipped in honey.”
She should. I coded her taste profile just for me, a tiny, perfect gift I’d given myself inside the PleazureHolo menu.
“Do you trust me now?” I ask, voice still raspy with desire.
Her eyes open, flooded with a vulnerability that scares me in ways logic never will. I know code, simple if-then statements, black and white, zeros and ones. Her eyes reflect something much deeper, much more complex. The possibilities are endless.
“I don’t know if I should.” She’s still conflicted.
“But I do know I don’t want to pretend I didn’t feel any of that.
It felt incredible, Kael...you feel incredible when I’m with you, when I touch you.
Like I’m supposed to be in your arms.” Her hands land on each side of my face, and her lips meet mine again.
I say nothing because deep down in my dark heart I know this is where I’m meant to be. I’ve never believed in fate, but perhaps my heart harbors a quiet understanding that this is my path. What if I’ve been drawn to her for a reason, despite my best efforts to remain alone.
Her pulse is everywhere. In my veins. In the walls. In the code bending around us. Her mouth is still on mine when I pull away briefly to reposition her on my bed. “Promise me this,” she says between kisses. “Don’t make this the only reason you save me.”
My brain wants to answer with logic and plans. Instead, I let something brutal and true slip out. “I promise. It’s not the only reason.” The truth tastes so sublime. I can’t possibly reveal to her how deep my obsession runs: that I want to own her, keep her. It’s still too risky.
We stay locked in each other’s arms a moment longer. I’ve waited this long, wanted so long. I’m not ready to let go. We’re bound by her magic and my code.
The city hums beyond my windows as TheKast glows softly outside. I notice a second of panic as she bolts upright. I pull her back down on top of me. “You’re safe with me. No more fear or hiding from the digital snow. I made sure of it in my latest update.”
Her smile is all I need to see to feel something genuine, even if she’s just another synthetic being.
That will change.
No more running or resisting. The world is still a complicated and dangerous place. But for now, in this delicious, borrowed time of intimacy, there’s a small truce between us.