Forbidden Worlds - Box Set (41 page)

“When will you be back?”

“I don’t know. I’m working on a project that could last all night. I’ll call you.”

“’Kay. Bye, sexy.”

“Bye.” Tess sighed as she left her apartment. She was done with Tye. She’d used him up for everything he was worth, and now she just hoped he’d be gone from her bed when she returned. It bothered her that her dream man no longer held any appeal. She couldn’t quite figure out why the insatiable sexual appetite she’d had for him for the last two nights had evaporated the moment she’d crawled out from under his sated body this morning.

Maybe that was how Sydney rolled. Love ’em and leave ’em. She wasn’t the type of girl who hung around for long when there were so many willing men.

Unfortunately Tess was just the opposite. She’d always dreamed of the traditional life, meeting one special guy, getting married, raising a family. At twenty-seven she still had plenty of time for that, but in her soft, untoned body, she didn’t have many prospects.

“But for five more days, I’m Sydney,” she told herself as she climbed into her car. “And I’ll be damned if I’m going to waste a single minute on regrets.”

Chapter 8

Lars, Gentron’s weekday security guard, had already come on duty when Tess arrived. He scanned her ID card and handed it back to her with a pleasant smile.

“How are you enjoying your stay here, Ms. Simon?”

“It’s been very nice, thank you.” She slipped the card in her purse and waved as she headed for the elevator. That was something she missed. Interacting with her co-workers gave her a sense of belonging. She’d been so caught up in being Sydney that she hadn’t thought about doing her job. Maybe it was time to settle down and get some work done.

Once she saw Jared, she’d go to her own office and start working on her end of the project, a complete analysis of everything she’d experienced since the transfer, carefully edited of course to avoid anything she might not want the general scientific community to know.

His office door was open when she arrived. Fueled by a deep breath, she stepped inside and found Jared sitting at his desk. His gaze bored into hers, and something clicked inside her. The temporary determination to go back to being Tess Ronson, at least on the inside, fled.

“I’m here.”

“I see that. Did you have a good time with your lover?”

“Fantastic. What kind of time am I going to have here?”

“Sydney, I don’t understand your sudden animosity toward me.”

Tess should have corrected him, but she didn’t want to be Tess right now. Tess didn’t want to talk to Jared Simon. Sydney couldn’t wait to get the man on his knees.

“The last time we spoke you made noises about me having to worry about the state of my real body.”

“That’s not true.” Jared rose. He’d left his lab coat off this morning and wore a plain blue T-shirt and jeans which made him look a little younger. His hair was mussed as if he’d run his hands through it a number of times. He took off his glasses and placed them on the desk behind him as he came around to stand in front of Sydney. “I merely reminded you that if you damage the body, you might have to return to your own sooner than expected. I don’t think you want that, do you?”

“No. I don’t. How can we avoid that?”

“First of all, you can’t be having sex with strange men.”

“What about familiar men?” She tilted her head. Already her clit was pulsing. If doing Jared meant staying in Sydney as long as possible, she was ready, willing and able.

“Sydney.” He took her hand, let his fingers trail up her arm and dance lightly over her throat and her jaw. “We don’t want to have to keep repairing your ass every day, do we?”

“Marc doesn’t seem to mind.” The memory of him sticking the temperature probe up her ass had her anal muscles tightening. She squirmed a bit, and her nipples hardened. “Tell me straight, Jared. What was the purpose of filling Sydney’s body with so many sensory receptors? Every breath of air that touches me makes me hot. You run your finger over my skin and my clit throbs, my nipples tighten. Tell me why.”

“Maybe you like me.”

“Why does Sydney have cum? Do you have any idea how wet she gets on her own? Why can she have mind-blowing orgasms? She doesn’t have a womb, yet my God, I can feel it contracting. Right now, there’s something inside me that’s throbbing, that needs release. This wasn’t in the schematics.”

Jared pursed his lips and stepped away from her. “Sydney is a full prototype, a very special model.”

Tess crossed her arms over her chest partly to hide the hard peaks of her nipples. “What does that mean?”

“There’s a lot of money to be made on this experiment. The medical ramifications are, as you know, extensive, but with government subsidies and hospital discounts, etc, I predict in less than ten years we’ll be selling android bodies at cost to the medical community. The real profit to be made, the thing that will keep paying our salaries for decades to come, is in other...pursuits.”

“Entertainment. I get it. Sydney is a sex-bot.” Tess was almost relieved. That explained why, even now, she couldn’t get the image of Jared bending her over the desk out of her mind.

“Not just that. The medical androids are designed to be reusable. Once a person’s real body heals, they’ll be transferred back, and the body will be given to someone else in need. But models like Sydney can become permanent homes for displaced...souls, if you will. The terminally ill, the aged, could essentially become immortal. They’re going to want bodies that can do everything a human body can, and sex is going to be very, very important to that market.”

“Immortality.” Tess’s thoughts went to the possibility of her remaining in Sydney’s body forever. How would that feel? She shivered. “How do we test for that? Do we know a human mind can exist indefinitely outside the body it was born into?”

“I don’t see why not. I have a few volunteers lined up for the next phase of the study.”

“Oh?” Sydney’s heart rate increased. Her clit ached. Did this mean someone else would get this body when Tess was done with it? “Who?”

“Not important right now.”

“I might be interested in volunteering.”

“I can’t choose you, Tess. You’re still alive and healthy. The AMA could protest if I essentially killed someone in order to further my study.”

“So you have terminally ill patients ready for the next phase?”

He nodded.

She took a deep breath. Why was she suddenly jealous of these people she hadn’t even met? She moved closer to Jared and put her hand on his chest. “Keep me in mind anyway. I’m willing...”

“Willing to what?”

“To do anything I have to in the name of science.” She slid her hand down his torso and tugged at the snap on his jeans. It came open, and he let out a faint
oh
. As if he didn’t know exactly what she meant.

“Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, Tess.”

“I’m Sydney right now.” She nipped at his lips, brushed her tongue over his mouth and grabbed two handfuls of his shirt. Like a dancer, she swung him around so his office couch was behind her, then she began to unbutton her shirt. “I’d like you to tell me more about how my body works, Jared. I’ve experienced things I can’t explain...and I think you have the answers I’m looking for.”

His gaze fell to her breasts as she opened the clasp of her bra and set them free. She grabbed his hands and centered his palms over her straining nipples.

“Feel those? They’re hard all the time.”

He squeezed her flesh and groaned. She unzipped his pants and thrust a hand inside to massage his swollen cock. “Why do I feel it here?” She moved one of his hands to her flat abdomen. Something pulsed inside at his touch. “What’s in there, Jared? It throbs and tightens. It forces me to want things I’ve never wanted before.”

“It’s a special mechanism I designed...”

Tess kicked her shoes off, slipped her pants down and stepped out of them. She wore no underwear. The leather of Jared’s couch was cool against her ass when she sat and spread her legs. “Tell me how it works. Show me.”

Jared fell to his knees in front of her. He put his hands on her, petting the auburn curls of her mound, spreading her pussy lips with his thumbs. “It’s a nerve bundle, much larger than originally intended. It has neuron tendrils that spread out in all directions from one center point beneath your navel.”

“Mmm?” Tess hitched her hips forward and put her hand on the top of Jared’s head. “Lick me. And tell me why I’m so wet.”

He dove in eagerly and closed his lips around her clit. Fire raced through Sydney’s body along those neuron tendrils he’d described. Her nipples grew even more distended, and an irresistible force had her bucking her hips to facilitate the pumping of Sydney’s cum to her pussy. She smelled it, the sweet musky scent, and she cried out as Jared thrust his tongue inside her.

After a couple of long, wet strokes, he looked up. “A perfumery in France designed the scent. It has both male and female pheromones so anyone who gets a whiff will be affected. It tastes like vanilla and honey.”

“That’s what Tye said.” She laughed. “Isn’t vanilla your favorite flavor?” The irony of it would have had her doubled over with mirth, except that her muscles had begun to tighten. She needed release.

“Tell me what happens when I orgasm. It almost hurts, but it feels so amazing.” She writhed a little to give him the message he had a job to finish.

In response, he thrust two fingers inside her and curled them forward. Did Sydney have a G-spot?

“Ahhhh!” God, yes. She did. In an instant Tess went from extremely aroused to out of her mind. Sydney’s body began to tremble. Every one of her muscles pulsed, sending waves of sensation up and down her body. Her spine contracted, her lungs expanded and she swallowed convulsively.

Nails digging into the couch cushions, she arched backward, clamping her burning pussy on his fingers.

He grinned. “I’m the only one who knows about that little trick. There’s a single receptor in that spot I just touched that ratchets up your sensory input a hundred-fold.”

Tess gaped. She was coming hard, everywhere. Her cunt, her ass, even her throat contracted rhythmically in time to Jared’s not-so-gentle massage of that secret button.

“I can’t...I can’t breathe...” She gasped for air. Her vision dimmed, but the pleasure spreading from her core was like a drug. As bad as it was, she wanted more. Needed more.

The good doctor wasted no time in accommodating her. He rose and shucked his jeans, freed his erection from his briefs and impaled her. The added pressure of his hot cock inside her spasming pussy made her scream. He felt enormous, much bigger than Tye.

“I activated a bio-program that reduces the diameter of your vaginal canal. In essence, you’re as tight as a virgin right now.” He ground the words out between clenched teeth as he pumped into her.

With her knees up high and her ass sliding along the now wet leather, Tess was helpless to comment or protest. She’d never felt anything at all like this, even during her own first experience with intercourse.

The rising scent of her arousal coupled with his made her dizzy. Her vision blurred, and she imagined she heard the whirring of some mechanism in the middle of her body as it contracted so tightly she couldn’t even make a sound of pleasure or pain.

After half a dozen hard thrusts, Jared came. His body shuddered over hers, and the heat of his ejaculate spread through her, easing her rigid muscles by slow degrees.

While his cock continued to pulse wildly inside her, he whispered into her ear, “Can the jerk with the big long cock do that to you?”

She shook her head. Finally her throat opened, and she drew in a breath. Her back relaxed, and she sagged into the couch cushions and lay there, panting, even though, technically, Sydney didn’t really need to breathe.

Jared released himself from her and leaned back on his heels. “You’re as good as I imagined, Sydney. As perfect as I designed you.”

Tess stared at him as her body cooled. God help her, she wanted to do it all over again.

Jared rose and retrieved a hand towel from his adjacent bathroom. He cleaned between Sydney’s legs and his own, then shrugged. “I’m so glad I didn’t go for the cloth upholstery.”

Tess sat up. Where an hour ago she’d rehearsed a hundred questions for Dr. Simon, now her mind seemed to have gone blank. She hadn’t expected to be the one to lose control. She’d wanted him begging for Sydney’s attentions, and she’d wanted to be the one cavalierly doling out naughty bits of herself while he panted after her like a dog.

“Why...”

“Why what? Why did I design something so intense? Sydney, do you really have to ask that?” He knelt before her again, hands on her still slightly trembling thighs. “I already have investors that Gentron knows nothing about. When my offshoot company goes into full production on these android bodies, I’ll become the world’s first trillionaire.”

She opened her mouth to comment, but her jumbled thoughts fled. Anyone who experienced what she just had would no doubt pay to do so again. “I want in.” She blurted the words without thought to the consequences.

Jared rose, smiling. “What do you have to offer me that I can use? You’re a researcher. People with your credentials are a dime a dozen in this business. I know your salary. You can’t have anything to invest, plus I really don’t need any more start-up capital.”

“I’ll be your prototype.”

He raised a brow as he fastened his pants, then reached out a hand to help her up off the couch. “My demonstration model, you mean?”

“Yes.” This was Sydney talking. Tess would never have gone down that dark road. Life as a cyber-whore? Was that what she wanted?

Jared caressed her cheek and patted her ass. “Interesting concept. I’ll consider it, and we’ll continue our negotiations later. Right now, you probably should get your gorgeous little ass up to Melissa’s office. She’s complained to me that you’re not giving her enough feedback, so I suggest you start talking. None of this will go forward if we don’t get the initial data we need to present to the board members, and we’re counting on our test subject for that.”

Numbly, Tess nodded. She dressed quickly, her fingers fumbling. Her steps were wobbly as she headed out the door of Jared’s office.

“Sydney,” he called before she’d advanced two steps into the corridor. “I’ll call you when I’m ready to discuss our liaison further.”