Cyborg Nation by Cyborg 3 Cyborg Nation (NCP)

Author:Cyborg 3 Cyborg Nation (NCP) [(NCP), Cyborg 3 Cyborg Nation]
Format: epub
Published: 2010-01-07T07:11:35+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Feeling vaguely let down that Gideon had come before she could, Bronte lay with her eyes closed until she’d caught her breath and finally turned her head to look at him. A mixture of amusement and irritation filled her when she saw he was asleep.

Sex was obviously a potent tranquilizer for him. The wonder was that he’d managed to stay awake long enough the first time to make sure she really had agreed to enter into a co-habitation agreement with him.

Stifling the urge to chuckle, she studied his face, wondering if she’d imagined the most truly bizarre proposal she’d ever had.

Not that she’d had that many.

Actually none.

She wasn’t sure how she felt about it—strangely vacillating was as close as she could come. She wasn’t even certain of why she’d agreed. She puzzled over that for a few minutes and decided she did know. She’d agreed because there something so crazy and desperate about his absolute determination to convince her that she couldn’t bring herself to say no.

Because she felt like, right or wrong, it could only be that she meant a lot to him. Love was probably stretching it—a long way. On an intellectual level, she knew he couldn’t possibly know what love was. That didn’t mean he couldn’t feel it, but she didn’t honestly believe he was capable of it.

And it still didn’t matter. She’d had people who claimed to love her who would never have gone through half of what he had to have her. It wasn’t just the sex either. That was almost the strangest part about it. He wanted her. He hadn’t made any bones about that, or spent a lot of time agonizing on whether to seduce her or not.

But he’d refused to give in to his own needs until he could make her agree.

That was dedication!

Realizing that the longer she stared at him the more she wanted to touch, she finally slipped out of the bed and went to bathe, more than half expecting him to wake up and join her. He didn’t, but she had plenty of company in her thoughts. She went back over what he’d said to her, trying to focus on that rather than what he’d done, which wasn’t easy.

She’d been in such a state at the time she’d suspected she must have somehow misunderstood him when he’d said ‘contract with us’. He’d been in such a state while she was questioning him about it that she hadn’t been sure she could put a lot of faith in what he’d told her.

It occurred to her rather forcefully, though, that Gideon hadn’t been working alone any of the time. Jerico had behaved the same way toward her. She suspected poor Gabriel would have too except that he’d had a good bit more trouble controlling his own libido.

And she’d been mad as hell when she’d questioned him and discovered he was under orders to tease only, not to please.

They hadn’t all been behaving that way just because Gideon had ordered it, or just for Gideon’s benefit! Gideon had said ‘us’.

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