"You came inside me."
"You noticed that, huh."
Her cheeks flushed darker. "Iām not on birth control."
Oh.
Fuck.
My brain caught up to my dick about fifteen seconds too late.
Right. Birth control. Real-world consequences. Things that mattered when you werenāt thinking with your downstairs brain.
"The abilityā" I started.
"What about the ability?"
Good question. Did the Divine Milking System account for pregnancy? Was that even possible? The codex didnāt mention it. The interface didnāt have a fertility tracker.
I mentally pulled up the status screen.
Nothing. No warnings. No alerts. No red flags.
Either it wasnāt a problem or the system didnāt care enough to tell me.
Great. Super helpful.
"I think weāre fine," I said.
"You
think?
"
"The system would probably warn me ifā"
A notification popped up.
ā EXTRACTION SESSION COMPLETE ā
Target: Naomi Love (Silver Rank)
Session Duration: 43 minutes
Orgasms Achieved: 4
Essence Extracted: 2.25 cups
Points Earned: 450 points (25 pts/mouthful, 18 mouthfuls)
Lifespan Gained: +4 days 12 hours
Total Points: 1,000
Current Lifespan: 10 days 15 hours
DEVOTION UPDATE:
Naomi Love: 89% ā 94%
Romantic Bond: Fully Established (Primary Partner)
Attraction: 78% ā 96%
STATUS EFFECTS:
User: [Post-Orgasmic Clarity] (15 minutes)
[Sexual Training Bonus Applied]
Technique [C] ā [B]
Endurance [E] +2 segments
Strength [E] +1 segment
CONGRATULATIONS: Ability theft threshold exceeded.
[Wave Motion] successfully stolen and equipped.
ā ESSENCE TRANSFER DETECTED ā
Reverse Extraction Completed: Jace ā Naomi
Duration: 24 hours
Status Effect Applied: [Divine Empowerment]
BUFF DETAILS:
Wave Motion: Silver ā Gold
Physical Performance: 125%
Stamina Recovery: Enhanced
Mana Capacity: +30%
I stared at the notification, searching desperately for any pregnancy warning. Nothing. No red text, no alert, no "Congratulations, youāre about to be a father" pop-up.
Fuuuuuuck.
But part of meāthe primal, lizard-brain partāfelt smug satisfaction at coming inside her. It felt right. Natural. Perfect.
I pulled Naomi close against my chest, stroking her hair as her breathing steadied.
"Iāll buy you a morning-after pill after class tomorrow," I said. "But if anything happens... Iāll take responsibility."
She looked up, surprise flickering across her face.
"Youāre my woman, Naomi," I continued, surprising myself with how much I meant it. "If you wanted it... Iād have no problem giving you a baby."
"We barely know each other," she whispered.
"I know enough."
Did I mean that? Maybe. With Limit Breaker, Iād eventually become strong enough to protect her and any child we had. Besides, I had my sights set on bigger targets. Blair Davenport was walking around with Platinum-tier essence and a trust fund that could solve any financial problems we might face.
"Letās worry about that later," Naomi said, nestling closer. "I need to shower."
I pulled out slowly. We both made sounds.
Schlrp.
Naomiās whole body shivered. "That feels so
weird
."
"You get used to it."
"Do I want to get used to it?"
I looked down at her. Lying there in my sheets. Covered in sweat and milk and me. Her hair stuck to her forehead. Her chest still rising and falling with deep breaths.
She looked
thoroughly
fucked.
And she was looking back at me with this soft expression that made my chest do something I refused to acknowledge.
"Yeah," I said quietly. "You do."
Her smile was small. Tired. Real.
"Okay," she said.
I rolled off her and onto my back. Stared at my ceiling. The real ceiling. Not the sanctumās fake sky.
Naomi curled into my side immediately. Her head on my shoulder. Her hand on my chest.
We lay there in silence for a solid minute.
Then she spoke.
"Jace?"
"Yeah?"
"We just had sex in your real bed."
"Yep."
"Your roommate is home."
"Yep."
"Do you think he heard us?"
I considered Hikaru. Sitting out there on the couch, four meters away through a single thin closed door that had done absolutely nothing to muffle the last forty-three minutes.
Naomiās screaming. The wet sounds. The headboard. The specific, deeply incriminating rhythm of springs that had been going at full volume for most of an hour.
And Hikaru, who had been trained since childhood to register every creak and footstep and displaced pocket of air in a room, who fought with invisible blades because her perception was sharp enough to track things no one else could see.
"Definitely," I said.
"
Oh my god.
"
"He wonāt say anything."
"How do you know that?"
"Because Hikaru barely says anything under normal circumstances. And a conversation about his roommateās sex life falls somewhere in his personal hell that he will do anything to avoid. Including pretending heās deaf."
Naomi made a strangled noise into my shoulder, something between a groan and a laugh that she immediately tried to smother. "I have to walk past him to leave."
"So walk past him."
She pulled back to look at me. "Iām covered in
milk
, Jace."
Fair.
I looked down at her properly for the first time since weād come back from the sanctum. Naomiās chest was streaked with white, some of it already dried in thin lines across her skin, the rest still slick and wet. Her sports bra was crumpled somewhere near the foot of the bed. Her shorts were on the floor by the wall. My sheets were completely soaked through in two or three different ways I didnāt feel like categorizing.
This was genuinely a situation.
"Shower first," I said.
"In your bathroom?"
"Thatās where I keep the shower, yeah."
"What if he hears the water running and knows Iām still in here?"
"Naomi." I turned my head to look at her directly. "He already knows. He heard everything. He is not going to say a single word about it because that would require him to acknowledge that other human beings have interior lives, which is a concept he finds deeply inconvenient. If he does care, heās an adult and he can say something, which he wonāt."
She bit her lip, pink and raw from the last hour of use. "This is so embarrassing."
"You spent forty-three minutes letting me drink from your chest and then begged me not to stop. Twice."
"Thatās completely different!"
"Explain how."
"Because that was just
us!
Private! This isā" She waved one hand at the door, at the thin wall, at the whole implication of the apartment beyond it. "This is someone else knowing about us. An actual person who goes to our school and sees me in the halls."
I pressed my mouth to her forehead. Quick, no ceremony.
"Get used to it," I said. "Because Iām not done with you yet."
Her eyes went wide. "What does that mean?"
I grinned.
"Means youāre coming back."
"Jaceā"
"I need to bank more points and you need to help me train my new ability."
"Yourā your stole my ability?"
"Yep, looks like I got a weak copy of your ability."
She stared at me. Processing. Then her expression shifted into something between disbelief and grudging acceptance.
"Youāre welcome?" she tried.
"Good girl."
Her face went
crimson
.
"Donātā" She buried her face in my chest. "Donāt say that."
"Why not?"
"Because it does things."
"What kind of things?"
"
Jace.
"
I laughed and pulled her closer.
Ninety-four percent devotion. Ninety-six percent attraction. Primary romantic partner. Four more days added to my lifespan. A stolen ability equipped. Stats climbing.
The Midnight Foxes quest was active. The combat assessment was Friday. I had targets lined up. A system that worked. A girl in my bed who trusted me enough to let me ruin her completely.
Ten days and fifteen hours on my life clock.