Made for Both
- Jaileen Robbie
- Jan 7
- 21 min read
The pharmacy was a tomb of glass and rot, but the air between them was white-hot.
When Cole’s hand slid up her thigh, it wasn’t the touch of a scavenger; it was the claim of a predator. His fingers dug into the soft, bare skin above her torn stocking, his palm searingly hot. The creak of the floorboard was forgotten, replaced by the friction of his thumb tracing the sensitive line of her inner thigh.
He pulled her back against him, his chest a wall of solid muscle against her spine. She could feel the hard weight of his pulse through his tactical vest, a rhythmic thud that matched the frantic pounding in her own throat.
“Quiet,” he commanded.
His hand didn’t move; instead, it slid higher, bunching the fabric of her skirt until he found the damp, aching heat of her. Nicole gasped, the sound muffled against her own shoulder as he pressed her forward against the shelving. The cold metal bit into her stomach, a sharp contrast to the intrusive, heavy warmth of his hand.
He didn't wait. His fingers found her, insistent and practiced, parting her with a blunt authority that made her vision swim. She was already slick, her body betraying her the moment he had pinned her. He groaned low in his throat—a jagged, animal sound that broke through his disciplined exterior.
He caught her wrists, bringing them behind her back, and wound the gauze tight. The friction of the cloth against her skin felt like a brand. He lashed her hands to the upright of the metal shelving, forcing her chest forward, her back arching until she felt the strain in her spine.
He stepped back for only a second, just long enough for the sound of a zipper to cut through the silence of the pharmacy like a blade.
When he moved back into her, there was no more hesitation. He grabbed her hips, his fingers bruising the bone, and guided himself home with a brutal, singular focus. Nicole’s head fell back, a silent scream caught in her throat as he filled her, anchoring her to the rotting floorboards.
The rhythm was frantic—a desperate, starving pace. Every time his hips slammed against hers, the shelves rattled, vials of old medicine shattering on the floor. He leaned over her, his sweat dripping onto her shoulder, his breathing a ragged, desperate heaving.
“Look at me,” he growled.
She twisted her head, catching his eyes in the gloom. They were dark, blown wide with a hunger that surpassed survival. He wasn't just taking her; he was devouring the moment before the world ended.
He increased the pace, his thrusts becoming shallow and punishing. Just as the first wave of release began to shatter her focus, the world outside exploded.
Crack.
The gunshot was close. Too close.
The heat didn't fade, but it was instantly redirected. Cole pulled out of her with a sharp intake of breath, his hands moving with terrifying efficiency to slice through the gauze at her wrists. He didn't offer a hand to steady her; he was already reaching for his holster.
The rain was a freezing curtain. They moved through the ruins of the city like ghosts, but ghosts were being hunted.
“Sector four,” Cole breathed, his hand heavy on her shoulder as he shoved her into a recessed doorway.
A flashlight beam swept the alley, narrow and accusing. Nicole held her breath, her skin still tingling from his touch, now crawling with the proximity of the scout patrol. Three men passed, their boots splashing in the oily puddles. They carried heavy-duty rifles and a casual cruelty that made her blood run cold. One paused, sniffing the air—the scent of her arousal and their frantic union still clung to the humid air.
Cole’s hand moved from her shoulder to her throat, not to hurt, but to keep her utterly still. His thumb pressed against her windpipe, a lethal promise of silence. The scout lingered, his light illuminating the trash inches from their boots, before a whistle called him away.
They didn't speak until they reached the safehouse, a concrete bunker hidden beneath a collapsed tenement.
The moment the heavy steel door slammed shut and the bolts turned, the tension snapped. There was no more "not here." No more "not now."
Cole didn't even let her reach the bed. He spun her around, slamming her back against the cold, sweating concrete wall. The impact knocked the air from her lungs, but she met his mouth with a violence that drew blood.
He stripped her with a savage lack of patience, the sound of tearing fabric loud in the small room. He didn't use gauze this time; he used his hands, pinning her arms above her head with one massive fist.
“You almost got us killed,” he snarled against her lips, his voice thick with a terrifying mix of rage and lust.
“Then finish it,” Nicole challenged, wrapping her legs around his waist and pulling him flush against her.
He didn't use finesse. He entered her with a forceful, deep lunge that hit the base of her spine. It was raw, unrefined, and entirely animalistic. He hammered into her, his body a weapon, his breath hot and ragged against her ear.
Nicole screamed then, the sound echoing off the concrete, her nails clawing at his shoulders, drawing long, red furrows through the grit and sweat. The danger outside had stripped away the last of their humanity, leaving only the primal need to feel alive.
He gripped her hair, pulling her head back to expose her throat, his teeth sinking into the skin of her shoulder as he hit his peak. The release was violent, a total loss of the control he prized so highly. He collapsed into her, his weight crushing her against the wall, both of them shaking, slick with sweat and the lingering scent of woodsmoke and rain.
As he finally pulled back, his eyes remained locked on hers—dark, possessive, and entirely unrepentant.
“Now,” he rasped, wiping a smear of her blood from his lip. “We’re even.”
The morning light was a grey, sickly intrusion through the bunker’s high, slit windows. It pooled on the floor, illuminating the wreckage of the night before: Nicole’s torn shirt, a discarded holster, and the dark, drying smears of blood on the concrete wall where Cole had pinned her.
Nicole woke on the thin mattress, her body a map of dull aches and vivid reminders. The skin of her shoulder was tender where his teeth had marked her, and her wrists bore the faint, ghost-red shadows of the gauze and his grip.
Cole was already up.
He was sitting at the small wooden table, stripped to the waist, methodically cleaning his sidearm. The savage, unhinged man from the night before was gone, replaced by the silent, efficient soldier. But as Nicole sat up, the sheet sliding down her hips, his hands paused for a fraction of a second. He didn't look at her face; his eyes tracked the bruises on her thighs—dark, thumb-sized prints he had left in his desperation.
The silence was heavier than the danger of the scouts. It was the weight of a boundary crossed that could never be rebuilt.
"We have to move," he said, his voice sandpaper-dry. He finally looked up, his gaze hard and unreadable. "The patrol found the pharmacy. They’ll be tracing the scent toward this block by noon."
"I know," Nicole replied. She stood, ignoring the tremor in her legs. She walked toward him, purposefully crossing into his personal space. She reached for her discarded shirt, but stopped, her hand hovering near his shoulder—near the deep scratches she had carved into his skin.
He didn't flinch, but she felt the air around him tighten, that familiar, charged current snapping back into existence.
"You're not sorry," she murmured, her voice a low challenge.
Cole stood up abruptly, the chair scraping harshly against the floor. He stepped toward her until she was forced back against the table, his shadow looming over her. He didn't touch her, but the heat radiating from his body was an echo of the violence they had shared.
"I don't have the luxury of being sorry," he rasped, leaning down until his breath stirred the hair at her temple. "But don't mistake what happened for a beginning, Nicole. In this world, that kind of hunger gets people dead."
He reached past her, grabbing a fresh tactical vest and shoving it into her hands.
"Dress. Pack. We leave in five."
He turned away, but Nicole saw the way his fingers shook as he holstered his weapon. The control he was trying to project was a thin veneer over a fractured foundation. He hadn't just taken her; he had let her see the monster beneath the uniform, and now he had to live with the fact that she wasn't afraid of it.
The exit was a rusted iron hatch that bled into a narrow service tunnel. The air was thick with the smell of wet soot and old grease.
They were halfway to the street level when the sound reached them—the rhythmic, synchronized thud of heavy boots. Not scavengers. Not a random patrol. This was a sweep.
"Hold," Cole breathed, his hand instantly finding the small of her back to guide her into the shadows of a crumbling alcove.
The light hit them first. A high-intensity beam cut through the dark, reflecting off the damp walls. Two scouts emerged from the stairwell ahead, their rifles leveled. They were geared for a fight, gas masks making them look like faceless insects.
"Hands!" the lead scout barked, the muzzle of his weapon twitching toward Cole’s chest.
They were cornered. The space was too tight for a firefight without both of them getting shredded. Nicole felt Cole’s body go rigid, his muscles coiling like a spring.
"We’re just passing through," Cole said, his voice dropping into a rough, convincing rasp. He raised his hands slowly. "Looking for scrap. We don't want any trouble."
The lead scout stepped closer, his light dancing over them. It snagged on Nicole’s neck, illuminating the dark, angry bite mark Cole had left there. Then it trailed down to the purple bruises on her collarbone and the raw, chafed skin of her wrists.
The scout let out a low, distorted chuckle through his mask. "Looks like you've been doing more than scavenging, friend. She a local, or did you bring your own entertainment?"
He stepped into their space, the barrel of his rifle pressing into Nicole’s stomach, pushing her back against the wall. He used the muzzle to nudge her shirt aside, exposing more of the marks. "Rough play. I like that. Maybe we take a turn, see if she screams as loud for us."
The air in the tunnel turned arctic. Nicole didn't look at the scout; she looked at Cole.
The soldier was gone. The predator was back.
Cole didn't wait for a signal. In one fluid, explosive motion, he grabbed the scout’s rifle barrel, redirecting the shot into the floor as he drove a combat knife upward, under the man’s jaw and through the mask.
The second scout lunged, but Nicole was already moving. She dropped low, sweeping his legs out from under him. As he hit the ground, she pounced, her fingers finding the gaps in his armor. She didn't use a gun; she used the jagged edge of a broken pipe she’d snatched from the wall.
It was a frantic, silent struggle in the dark. Cole slammed the first body against the wall, his hands working with the same savage intensity he’d used on Nicole hours before, but this time, he was breaking bone instead of skin.
When the silence returned, it was punctuated only by their ragged breathing. Both scouts lay still.
Cole turned to her, his face splattered with dark droplets. He looked at the marks on her neck—the ones the scout had mocked—and then he looked at the blood on her hands.
He didn't check if she was hurt. He grabbed her by the back of the neck, pulling her forehead against his. His grip was bruising, a silent, violent claim in the aftermath of the kill.
"You're mine to break," he hissed, his eyes burning with a dark, possessive fire. "Nobody else touches you. Ever."
He kissed her then—a hard, punishing collision of teeth and tongue that tasted of copper and adrenaline. It wasn't an apology; it was a renewal of the pact they’d made in the dark of the pharmacy.
"Move," he ordered, breaking away and grabbing his pack. "The rest of them will be here in minutes."
They didn’t make it to the extraction point. The city was crawling with reinforcements, the sirens wailing like banshees through the rain. Cole led them into the guts of an abandoned industrial laundry, a cavernous space filled with rusted vats and the heavy, choking scent of lye.
The moment the heavy sliding door clicked shut, the silence didn't bring peace. It brought the roar of the adrenaline still screaming through their veins.
Nicole turned to him, her chest heaving, her hands still shaking from the kill. Cole was a silhouette in the gloom, his breathing jagged. He didn't say a word. He didn't have to. He moved across the floor with the speed of a strike, slamming her back against a massive, cold iron boiler.
The impact jolted her, but she didn't flinch. She met him with equal ferocity, her hands tearing at his tactical vest, desperate to get to the heat of his skin.
"The way he looked at you," Cole growled, his voice a low, vibrating rumble against her throat. His hands weren't careful; they were iron clamps on her waist, hoisting her up until her legs instinctively locked around his hips. "The way he touched you with that rifle."
"He's dead, Cole," she gasped, her fingers digging into his hair, pulling his head down. "He’s dead and you’re here. F***ing prove it."
He didn't need more than that. He ripped her trousers down with a single, violent jerk, the sound of fabric snapping echoing in the hollow chamber. There was no gauze, no shelf, and no patience. He entered her with a brutal, driving force that made her head snap back against the iron. It was a collision of two people who had just stared into the abyss and decided to burn instead of fall.
He hammered into her, his movements rhythmic and punishing, his face buried in the crook of her neck. Nicole’s world narrowed to the searing friction and the cold, unyielding metal at her back. She clawed at him, her nails leaving fresh, raw tracks over his shoulders, her teeth sinking into his skin to stifle her screams.
The danger outside—the boots on the pavement, the searchlights, the high-stakes hunt—only served to sharpen the edge. Every thrust was a middle finger to the death waiting for them. Cole’s control didn't just crack; it disintegrated. He was a force of nature, his body a weapon he was using to claim every inch of her, marking her deeper than any bruise could.
He gripped her chin, forcing her to look at him as he hit his limit. His eyes were wild, stripped of the soldier’s logic, filled with a primal, terrifying possession.
"Mine," he rasped, the word a vow as he buckled against her, his release a violent, shuddering explosion that left them both gasping for air in the sulfurous dark.
He kept her pinned there for a long time, his forehead resting against hers, their heartbeats thudding in a frantic, overlapping rhythm. The iron boiler groaned under their weight.
Finally, he slid her down, but he didn't let go. He kept one hand buried in her hair, his thumb tracing the line of her jaw, his gaze still dark and heavy.
"They're still looking for us," he whispered, his voice returning to that gravelly, dangerous calm.
Nicole adjusted her clothes, her body humming with a dull, throbbing ache that felt more like home than any safehouse. She looked at the door, then back at the man who had just dismantled her.
"Then let them look," she said, her voice steady. "They won't find what's left of us."
The "Green Zone" was a lie. It was a fortress of polished concrete and cold neon, run by the Syndicate with a corporate cruelty that made the chaos outside look honest.
By the time Nicole and Cole stood in the foyer of the Command Level, they looked like wreckage. Cole’s knuckles were split, and Nicole’s neck was a map of dark, undeniable violet marks that high collars couldn't hide.
The doors slid open to reveal Vane’s private sanctum.
Vane was leaning against a mahogany desk, a glass of amber liquid in one hand and a weighted riding crop in the other. She was elegant in a way that felt surgical—sharp suit, silver hair slicked back, and eyes that moved over Nicole like she was a piece of fine silk she intended to tear.
"You're late," Vane said, her voice a low, melodic purr. "And you look... used."
She walked toward them, her heels clicking with predatory precision. She ignored Cole entirely, stepping into Nicole’s personal space. Vane used the tip of her crop to tilt Nicole’s chin up, forcing the bruises into the light. Her eyes darkened with a mixture of jealousy and clinical appreciation.
"Is this your work, Cole?" Vane asked, not looking at him. "Or did the scouts get a hold of her before you could play hero?"
"The mission was successful," Cole said, his voice a flat, dangerous monotone. He was standing at rigid attention, but the way his hand twitched toward his belt told Nicole he was seconds away from a court-martial.
Vane ignored him. She slid the cool leather of her glove over the bite mark on Nicole’s shoulder, her thumb pressing hard enough to cause a fresh wince of pain. Vane leaned in, smelling of expensive tobacco and something cold.
"I spent three million credits on your training, Nicole," Vane whispered, her lips inches from Nicole’s. "I don't like seeing my property handled so... clumsily. It implies a lack of respect for the owner."
She looked at Cole then, a cruel, thin smile stretching her lips. "He’s a blunt instrument, darling. He breaks things because he doesn't know how to savor them. But you and I? We understand the art of the ache, don't we?"
Vane turned back to her desk, her voice turning to ice. "Cole, you’re dismissed to the barracks. You’ll be debriefed by the disciplinary board for your 'unorthodox' field conduct. Nicole, you’re staying here. I think you need a reminder of who you actually belong to."
Cole didn't move. The air in the room spiked to a fever pitch. Nicole could feel the heat radiating off him—the same savage protective streak that had turned those scouts into paste.
"She’s with me," Cole rasped, breaking protocol.
Vane frozen. She turned slowly, her eyes flashing with a sadistic delight. She loved a challenge. "Is she? Because I see a girl who’s been marked by a dog. And I think it’s time I showed her what a master can do."
Vane walked to a wall panel and pressed a button. Two heavy-set guards stepped into the room.
"Take him to the brig," Vane commanded. "And Nicole? Strip. Let’s see exactly how much damage I have to repair."
The heavy doors hissed shut, locking with a finality that echoed through the sterile chamber. The sound of Cole’s boots faded as he was dragged down the hall, leaving Nicole alone with the woman who held her leash.
Vane didn’t move. She stood by the window, the neon glow of the city reflecting in her silver hair. "He’s a animal, Nicole. Efficient, yes. But an animal nonetheless."
She turned, her eyes raking over Nicole’s disheveled state. The riding crop tapped rhythmically against her thigh. "I told you to strip. Or has the soldier made you forget how to follow a real command?"
Nicole’s fingers trembled slightly as she reached for the buttons of her tactical shirt. She felt Vane’s gaze like a physical weight, peeling away the layers of her defense. As the damp fabric hit the floor, the full extent of the night’s violence was revealed. The bruises on her hips were turning a deep, angry plum; the bite on her shoulder was a raw, jagged signature.
Vane let out a soft, sharp intake of breath. She crossed the room, the scent of her perfume—clove and cold metal—choking out the lingering smell of Cole’s sweat.
"Look at what he did to you," Vane murmured. She didn't use her hands. She used the leather crop, tracing the edge of a bruise on Nicole’s inner thigh with the tip. The contact was cool, precise, and agonizingly slow. "He treated you like a piece of meat. He used you to vent his fear."
She moved the crop upward, resting the handle beneath Nicole’s chin, forcing her to look into those predatory, pale eyes.
"I don't want your fear, Nicole," Vane whispered, her voice dropping to a silk-wrapped blade. "I want your soul. And I want to hear you admit that his rough, clumsy f***ing was nothing compared to the exquisite pain I can give you."
Vane reached out, her gloved hand catching Nicole’s hair and pulling her head back with a sharp, practiced jerk. She didn't kiss her. Instead, she leaned in and licked the bite mark on Nicole’s shoulder, her tongue tracing the wound with a clinical, erotic focus.
"You’re going to kneel," Vane commanded, her breath hot against Nicole’s ear. "And while Cole rots in a cell thinking about the marks he left on you, you’re going to learn that those marks are just the beginning. I’m going to overwrite every sensation he gave you until you can’t remember his name."
Vane walked toward a velvet-lined chair, sitting and crossing her legs. She tapped the floor in front of her.
"Down. Now. And if I see a single thought of him in your eyes, I’ll make sure the disciplinary board does more than just debrief him."
Nicole sank to her knees, the cold marble floor a shock against her skin. She looked up at Vane, the power dynamic shifting into something far more psychological and twisted than the raw heat of the pharmacy.
Vane reached into her desk drawer and pulled out a delicate, wine red collar. "Let's see if we can't make you look a little more... elegant."
Vane didn’t wait for an answer. She stood, her silk trousers whispering as she moved, and gripped the collar around Nicole’s neck. The click of the lock was a final, cold punctuation.
"You still smell of him," Vane hissed, her composure finally fracturing into a sharp, jealous hunger. "It’s offensive."
She grabbed Nicole by the hair and forced her toward the low, velvet divan. Vane didn't strip with the frantic desperation Cole had shown; she was methodical, shedding her blazer and unbuttoning her silk shirt with a terrifying, calm grace. Underneath, she wore black lace that looked like armor.
Vane pushed Nicole onto her back and crawled over her, her weight light but commanding. She pinned Nicole’s wrists above her head with one hand, using the other to trace the line of the wine red collar.
"I'm going to erase him," Vane whispered.
She lowered her head, but she didn't go for the mouth. She went for the marks. Vane began to bite—not the blunt, panicked nips of a man in a war zone, but the sharp, calculated punctures of a woman who knew exactly how much pain a body could transmute into pleasure. She bit over Cole’s marks, reclaiming the territory, her tongue lashing the skin until Nicole was arching off the velvet, a raw sound tearing from her throat.
Vane’s hand slid down, her long, manicured fingers moving with a sadistic precision. She didn't use her palm; she used her nails, dragging them lightly over the bruises on Nicole's thighs before plunging two fingers inside her with a sudden, forceful depth.
Nicole gasped, her eyes flying open. It was cold. It was technical. It was overwhelming.
"Tell me," Vane demanded, leaning down so their lips almost touched, her fingers moving in a rapid, fluttering rhythm that targeted Nicole’s sensitivity with surgical accuracy. "Who owns this? Who owns every breath you’re struggling to take right now?"
"You," Nicole choked out, her head thrashed back against the cushions. "Vane... please."
"I didn't give you permission to beg," Vane said, her voice a low, vibrating hum of power.
She shifted, discarding her lace constraints and pressing her body fully against Nicole’s. The contact was electric—soft skin against soft skin, a mirror image of desire fueled by malice. Vane used her mouth with a devastating expertise, her tongue a weapon as she worked her way down Nicole’s stomach.
When Vane reached her, she didn't hesitate. She was relentless. She used her teeth and her tongue to drive Nicole toward a peak that felt like a betrayal. Every time Nicole tried to close her eyes, to drift back to the memory of the pharmacy, Vane would bite her thigh or tighten the grip on her hair, forcing her back into the sterile, neon-lit present.
Nicole’s climax was a violent, involuntary shattering. She buckled, her body shaking as Vane held her through it, watching her face with a cold, triumphant smile.
As the tremors subsided, Vane climbed back up, hovering over her. She wiped a stray tear from Nicole’s cheek with a gloved thumb.
"There," Vane purred, her eyes shining with dark satisfaction. "Now his scent is gone. You’re clean again."
Vane stood up, perfectly composed even in her nakedness, and walked back to her desk to pour another drink. She didn't look back.
"Stay on the floor, Nicole. I want to watch you crawl to the shower. And don't forget—Cole is listening to every second of this through the feed in his cell."
The brig was a lightless box of reinforced steel, but the silence was the most brutal part. Cole sat on the floor, his back against the cold metal, his hands shackled to a floor ring.
Then, the wall speaker crackled to life.
Vane didn't just want him broken; she wanted him destroyed. The audio was crystal clear—the clinical hum of her office, the rustle of silk, and then the unmistakable, sharp intake of Nicole’s breath.
Cole’s jaw tightened until his teeth ached. He heard the collar click. He heard Vane’s voice—thin, sharp, and dripping with a refined cruelty that made his blood boil. But as the sounds shifted from dialogue to the raw, visceral reality of what was happening, the rage in his gut began to warp into something darker, heavier, and undeniably carnal.
He heard the wet, rhythmic sounds of Vane’s mouth on Nicole’s skin. He heard Nicole’s sharp, involuntary cry when Vane bit over the marks he had left.
“Who owns this?” Vane’s voice came through the speaker, a distorted purr.
“You,” Nicole gasped.
Cole’s breath hitched. Hearing her voice—strained, broken, and filled with a pleasure he hadn't been the one to give her—hit him like a physical blow. His heart hammered against his ribs, not with the rhythm of a fight, but with the frantic pulse of a man watching his most prized possession being handled by another.
He tried to shut his eyes, to block it out, but the sound of Nicole’s climax—the high, wavering wail that he had pulled out of her in the laundry—filled the small cell.
Against his will, his body responded. Despite the shackles, despite the looming threat of the disciplinary board, he felt the familiar, heavy ache blooming in his groin. The image of Nicole on her knees, bound by a collar and trembling under Vane’s expert, sadistic touch, burned behind his eyelids. It was a betrayal, and yet, the thought of her being pushed to that limit, of her body being used as a battlefield between his raw strength and Vane’s cold precision, was the most intoxicating thing he had ever felt.
He let out a low, jagged groan, his head falling back against the steel wall. He was hard, pulsing painfully against the coarse fabric of his tactical trousers. He hated Vane for this, but he wanted Nicole more than ever—wanted to reclaim her, to wash away the scent of Vane’s perfume with his own sweat, to see if she would still look at him with that same defiant fire after she’d been broken by the master.
The audio cut out with a sharp click, leaving him in a silence that felt twice as heavy as before.
“Hope you enjoyed the show, Soldier,” a guard’s voice mocked from the hallway.
Cole didn't answer. He sat in the dark, his breath ragged, the ghost of Nicole’s screams still ringing in his ears. He wasn't just planning an escape anymore. He was planning a war.
Nicole moved like a ghost across the plush carpet, her body still humming from Vane’s assault, the collar a cold reminder of her current status.
Vane sat back in her high-backed leather chair, her legs draped over the armrest, her silk trousers discarded on the floor. She looked like a queen surveying a conquered territory. In her hand, she held a remote that controlled the surveillance feeds in the brig. She flicked a switch, and the monitor on the wall showed Cole—hunched, shadowed, and visibly struggling in his cell.
"He looks so pathetic when he’s frustrated, doesn't he?" Vane purred, reaching out to tangle her fingers in Nicole’s hair. "Now, show me you've forgotten him. Show me where your loyalties lie."
Vane pulled Nicole down between her legs. The scent of the woman was sharp—expensive gin and the lingering musk of their previous encounter. Nicole sank to her knees, her eyes fixed on the terminal screen just behind Vane’s shoulder. She could see the command prompts flickering.
As Nicole leaned in, her tongue tracing the soft, damp folds of Vane’s heat, she reached out blindly with one hand, her fingers searching for the edge of the mahogany desk. Vane let out a long, shuddering sigh, her hips arching upward as Nicole began to work on her with a desperate, focused intensity.
"Yes," Vane hissed, her head falling back, her eyes fluttering shut. "Better... much better than the soldier."
Nicole’s mouth was occupied, her tongue swirling and dipping into Vane’s slickness, but her mind was a tactical map. She found the recessed keyboard drawer. With the stealth of a saboteur, she hooked two fingers into the tray and slid it open just an inch.
She kept the rhythm steady, her face buried in Vane’s lap, the sounds of her own wet, rhythmic licking filling the room. Vane’s hands came down to press against the back of Nicole’s head, her nails digging into the scalp. It was the perfect cover.
Under the lip of the desk, Nicole’s left hand flew across the keys by touch alone.
Override. Sector 7. Cell 402.
Vane’s breathing turned into a ragged moan. She was close. Nicole redoubled her efforts, her tongue flicking against the sensitive nub of Vane’s clitoris with a punishing speed. She needed the woman lost in her own climax, blinded by the rush of endorphins.
"Nicole... oh god," Vane cried out, her thighs beginning to quake.
Nicole’s fingers hit the final sequence: ENTER.
On the silent monitor, the red light on Cole’s cell door flickered to green.
Vane’s body bucked, her fingers clenching painfully in Nicole’s hair as she shattered, a long, high-pitched scream of release echoing off the glass walls. She was limp, her power momentarily drained by the sheer force of the orgasm Nicole had forced upon her.
Nicole didn't pull away immediately. She stayed there, her face pressed against Vane’s damp skin, watching the screen. She saw the door to the brig slide open. She saw Cole stand up, his shadows lengthening as he stepped out into the hallway, a predator finally uncaged.
Vane panted, her hand stroking Nicole’s head with a patronizing tenderness. "You see, darling? You were made for this. Not for war."
Nicole looked up, a slow, lethal smile spreading across her face as she wiped her mouth.
"I was made for both," Nicole whispered.
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