Chapter 72: A Seam in the Seamless — When Protocol Meets Paranoia

Chapter 72: A Seam in the Seamless — When Protocol Meets Paranoia

I awoke to titflesh.

Soft, suffocating, and unnervingly warm, a pair of pitch-black breasts had claimed my entire field of view like a loving, sentient eclipse. Onyx, it appeared, had taken the concept of "sleep cuddles" and redefined it into something more akin to erotic asphyxiation. She was sprawled across me in a possessive sprawl, like a sleepy predator draped over its favorite chew toy.

I gently shoved her aside with the precision of a man disarming a bomb. She gave a half-sigh, half-purr of disappointment and rolled away into a cluster of pillows that now smelled unmistakably like sex and carbon fiber.

Blinking the crust from my eyes, I swung my legs over the side of the bed — and nearly tripped over a surprise tentacle.