Chapter 468: City of wonders. {6} Rex & Cleo Part 1
With great reluctance, Cleo lifted a slender finger and pressed it gently against Rex's lips, breaking the kiss. Her cheeks, faintly flushed, glowed with a beauty that could have stolen the breath from any onlooker. Her eyes met his, filled with both longing and restraint.
"Not here..." she whispered, her voice steadier now but tinged with regret.
The faint blush on her porcelain skin, however, betrayed her heart more than her words ever could.
"Why not?" Rex murmured, the words a low, velvety rumble against her skin. His teeth found her chin in a playful nip, a teasing promise that sent a jolt of lightning straight to her core.
As he spoke, his hand began a slow, deliberate journey, sliding beneath the hem of her simple white dress. His palm was warm and sure as it cupped the soft, yielding flesh of her inner thigh, a claiming touch that made her breath hitch and her teeth sink into the plumpness of her own lower lip.
"Rex…" His name was a desperate whisper, a final, fragile attempt at reason. "We're in public… someone could walk through that door at any moment…" Her eyes flickered towards the large window, her body tensed with a mixture of fear and thrilling anticipation.
"And the window… anyone outside could see… I don't know if—" Her protest was stolen, swallowed whole by his mouth as he captured her lips in a deep, languid kiss that tasted of pure rebellion. When he finally pulled away, they were both breathless.
A wicked, knowing grin played on his lips. "Don't you worry about that window, my love," he breathed, his voice thick with desire.
"It's a one-way mirror. We can see the world, but the world…" He shifted his weight, his strong hands guiding her, lifting her effortlessly to settle astride his lap. "…is blissfully blind to us."
He sealed his words with a new assault, his mouth finding the wildly beating pulse at the base of her throat, then trailing a line of fire down the sensitive column of her neck.
And just like that, the last thread of her resistance snapped. Arousal, hot and liquid, pooled deep within her, burning away all hesitation. With a sharp, determined intake of breath, she raised her hand.
The air itself seemed to shimmer and bend before a brilliant, holographic circle of bluish light erupted into existence behind her head, its intricate codes spinning like a digital halo.
"I think…" she gasped, her fingers dancing through the luminous interface, "I'm becoming more stupid thanks to you." But her actions were anything but foolish. With a few swift, mental commands, she sent a lock sliding home with a definitive thud.
She wove a net of silence through the mansion's digital veins, freezing the circuits of the bot maids and rerouting the patrol patterns of the guards mechanical sentinels. The room, the entire wing, was now theirs alone, a perfectly isolated sanctuary.
A soft, helpless moan escaped her as Rex's large hands found their way to the curves of her bottom, gripping her firmly and pulling her flush against the hard, unyielding proof of his need for her.
"Mmmh…" The sound was one of pure, unadulterated surrender, a silent acceptance of the delicious madness he had ignited within her.
The digital halo behind Cleo's head flickered and died once its work was complete. In the sudden quiet, the only sounds were their ragged breaths, mingling in the charged space between them.
The world outside, with all its rules and prying eyes, had been silenced. They were utterly, perfectly alone.
Rex's hands on her hips were not just a claim but a conversation. His thumbs stroked slow, deliberate circles into the soft fabric of her undies, a maddening contrast to the frantic rhythm of her heart.
He leaned back just enough to look at her, his eyes dark pools of undisguised hunger, drinking in the sight of her swollen lips from his kisses, her chest flushed and rising and falling with each quick, shallow breath.
"See?" he whispered, his voice a rough caress. "No one in the world but us."
He didn't wait for a reply. One hand slid from her hip, up the delicate curve of her spine, leaving a trail of fire in its wake. He tangled his fingers in the hair at the nape of her neck, tilting her head back down to his.
This kiss was different from the others... it was deeper, slower, a tasting. It was a kiss that spoke of time and possession, a languid exploration that made her entire body feel heavy and warm.
A soft, broken sigh escaped her, a sound she barely recognized as her own. Emboldened, her hands came up to frame his face, her thumbs tracing the sharp line of his jaw, feeling the faint stubble that scratched gently at her skin.
She kissed him back with a newfound desperation, her fingers sliding into his hair, pulling him closer, eliminating the last sliver of distance.
Feeling her surrender, a low growl rumbled in his chest. His other hand began to move again, sliding from her thigh, upwards, beneath the white cotton of her undies. His knuckles brushed against the sensitive skin of her stomach, and she flinched, a gasp catching in her throat.
His touch was electric, every point of contact sending shimmering waves of sensation through her. He was learning the landscape of her, his warm, calloused palm a brand against the smooth, heated skin of her inner thigh, moving higher, ever higher, towards the desperate, aching core of her.
Her mind, so brilliant and sharp just moments before, had gone quiet, all its processing power overwhelmed by a single, primal input.... The scent of his skin, the feel of his muscles coiled beneath her, and the taste of him on her tongue.
It was a sweet, dizzying stupidity, and she welcomed it. She was melting against him, every nerve ending alight, her entire world narrowing to the space where his body met hers and the breathtaking promise of his touch.
The world had shrunk to the confines of the plush luxurious chair, to the space where their bodies met.
Cleo's brilliant mind, capable of bending networks to its will, was now entirely consumed by the physical. Every thought was a new sensation... the rough texture of his pants against her bare thighs, the solid strength of his chest beneath her palms, the intoxicating scent of his skin... a mix of clean linen and something uniquely, essentially Rex.
His hand, still moving with that agonizing slowness under her dress, was a brand of pure sensation. His knuckles brushed higher, a hairsbreadth from where a deep, throbbing ache had begun to pulse, a rhythm that echoed the frantic beat of her heart.
She arched into him instinctively like a silent plea, her body speaking a language far more ancient and honest than any code she could ever write.
He broke the kiss, his breath remaining hot against her damp cheek. "Let me hear you..." he breathed, his voice a low, gravelly command that vibrated through her very bones.
"The room is locked. The world is gone. There's only me, and I want to hear every sound I pull from you..."
His words were a final permission. As his fingers finally... finally made contact with the damp silk of her underwear, a sharp, gasping moan was torn from her throat. It was not soft or controlled; it was raw and honest, a sound of pure, unadulterated need.
A dark, satisfied smile touched his lips. "That's it, my brilliant, stupid genius," he murmured, his thumb beginning a slow, circular pressure over the delicate fabric, a friction that made her vision blur.
Her fingers tightened in his hair, and her hips moved against his hand of their own volition, seeking more, seeking everything.
He held her gaze, his own dark with a possessiveness that should have frightened her but instead sent another wave of liquid heat through her veins.
He was watching her come undone, and he was reveling in it. With his free hand, he tugged gently at the thin strap of her dress, easing it down her shoulder to follow the path with his mouth, his tongue tracing a searing line along her collarbone.
Cleo's head fell back like a cascade of helpless, hungry sounds falling from her lips. She was a constellation of feeling, every point of contact a brilliant, shining star.
The clever hack that had sealed them in, the silenced bots, the locked door... it all felt like a prelude, the most intricate and beautiful code she had ever written, all leading to this single, inevitable crash of sensation.
She was no longer thinking; she was only feeling, burning, and falling into the beautiful, reckless fire they had built together.
The thin barrier of her underwear felt like an intolerable rebellion, a final, flimsy fortress against the storm of sensation he was unleashing. With a shuddering gasp, she shifted her weight, a silent, desperate instruction.
Rex understood. His hand stilled for a moment, his gaze locking with hers, a question and an answer passing between them in the charged air. Then, with a deliberate slowness that was its own form of torture, he hooked his fingers into the delicate fabric and eased it aside.
The direct touch of his skin against her most intimate, aching flesh was an electric shock. A sharp, broken cry escaped her, her entire body tensing as if struck by lightning.
Her eyes, wide and dark with wonder, searched his, finding in them a reflection of her own awe and raw hunger. "See?" he whispered, his voice rough with a reverence that undid her completely. "This is what you do to me. This truth."