Hardening Quirk Novels & Stories

Her mouth dropped open in shock as her gaze flicked to my crotch. Oh shit, I guess she wouldn’t know about that considering I’d not let her touch me yet! I looked down at the three little piercings that I’d had on the underside of my shaft. They were metal bars that ran under the skin with a small silver ball at the end of each one. “Er, yeah. Is that a problem?” I asked, praying with every bone in my body that she wouldn’t have a hatred for them.

Aerith suddenly gifts us with her gummy smile revealing her two dimples on her cheeks. "Shit. We are really in trouble." Daddy said in finality. All of us agreed. "Need to hire more MIB's." Daddy said. "Need to upgrade our security." Jamison added. "Should save more blank death certificates. Ameera depleted my supplies." Parker added. "Need to upgrade the bombs and weapons I installed." Gabriel said. Hearing all the suggestions of my family. It seems like the few decades of my life will be full of violence and bloodbath.

Looks like I should get used to them especially if I can pass the last phase. That I'm not sure yet.

Of course. I bit my lip, thinking fast. Zane was meticulous, but also arrogant. He used small tells — things he thought no one noticed. His passwords were often built around moments that fed his ego. I typed “BlackAlpha21”. Denied. Then “AlphaZane2021”. Denied again. My hands were sweating now, my pulse racing. I tried once more — “LunaHotel21”. Click. The folder opened. My stomach dropped. Rows of video thumbnails appeared — security feeds, hidden cameras, time-stamped files. I scrolled until one caught my eye: IceHotel_UntitledFootage.mov.

she replied coldly. The guy chuckled, glancing at Victor as if expecting him to join in on the joke. But Victor’s expression got hardened, his gaze was fixed on him with a warning. “Careful, Tom,” he said, his voice was calm. “You’re walking on thin ice.” Tom raised his hands in a joke, but there was a light grin on his face. “Just making conversation,” he said. “No need to be so protective.”

He had already ordered a cup of coffee. “How is she?” Pete asked and took a sip of his coffee. Nick was pissed at his so called best friend. He just stared at Pete, not giving him a reply to his dumb question. Pete tried to regroup by asking him a different approach. “I suppose you have every right to feel like I've become a hard ass.” “I wouldn’t go that far. Yes you are an ass, but you are anything but hard.” He emphasized the last word giving a hint of sexual connotation.

“Problem is, David made sure I never got close enough.” The case clicks open. Inside, a single data chip glints under the dim bulb. Kieran’s growl vibrates through my ribs before I hear it. “That’s Architect tech.” His fingers dig into my waist, pulling me half a step back. “Same casing they use for the blacksite files.”

of new foundries. "We are 'Hardening' the Multiverse," Elen noted to Kiri, who had finally traded her silica-thin robes for a heavy-duty "Exo-Rig" of her own. "The 'Second-Shift' was about the spirit, but the 'Fourth-Shift' is about the 'Bone.' We are giving the universe a 'Physical-Memory' that can't be edited by the Architects or the Hunters. We are making the 'Union' a 'Fact' of geology."

***************************** Making a relationship take long but breaking a relationship only take seconds **************************