The hivemind is conquering for me?

Tobias' jaw dropped. He knew rumours about Lady Sophia's cold and cruel nature, so to see that... Tobias could not look at the sight without getting excited and decided for little toby's sake to look away. Many of his men felt the same way, while others cheered on in amusement.

After the kissing began to reach an uncomfortable amount of time for the viewers, I pulled back from Sophia and smiled. "Hello there." Sophia smiled back. "Hello my sweet. Are you ok? Are you injured?" She said as she began checking my body over for injuries.

"I am fine Soph, unlike Jinx I was careful and did not run into gunfire without my armour on, I am not stupid." I said, having clearly recovered from my ego crash earlier. Sophia then stroked my cheek and then ran her fingers through my hair before she whispered. "You go and wait in my vehicle, I want to speak to this dealer a moment."

"Sure, no problem." I said as I grabbed her arm and kissed the palm of her hand tenderly before walking behind her.

As Sophia was about to walk over to Tobias, she heard her sweet from behind chastise her cultists, telling them to stop aiming their guns at the lower life forms in front of her. She swooned internally as she thought. 'So caring, even for these lesser beings. My sweets heart is too pure for this universe. Maybe it would be best for him to live inside me? Safe from everything.'

Sophia widened her eyes in shock. 'No, bad Sophia, Apollo does not like us talking like that, it freaks him out.' Almost being controlled by her hively urges, Sophia shrugged them off and arrived in front of Tobias.

"Miss, Lady Sophia, is there anything else I can do for you?" Tobias said nervously. Even surrounded by his armed men, he felt naked in front of this high profile individual. "I want all the bodies of the men that attacked this place, alongside all their weapons. I don't know or care why they attacked you. They attacked while someone of great importance was inside with you and I will make them pay for endangering his life. Comply or I will finish what the attackers started."

Tobias gulped. Even if he wanted the bodies for some strange reason, he would be in no place to refuse. "Of course Lady Sophia, though I do request we keep our own dead, their families may want to bury them on the grave world or cremate them."

Sophia squinted her eyes at the man for a second before she whispered. "What a waste..." She then followed up with. "Fine you can keep your people, just let my people take what they need."

Tobias was relieved and allowed Sophia's men into his building to retrieve the dead. Twenty minutes later, his nerves finally calmed down now he saw Sophia turn to leave as she entered her car.

Once the convoy left, Tobias turned around to look at the apartments that had been his base of operation for the last three years. 'Well, I guess all good things must come to an end... Perhaps I will take a loan and try to expand my market? Could be fun.' He thought with a smile before he returned to his men to prepare for the relocation.

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The ride back to the club was quiet. Not uncomfortably quiet, more I was just unwinding from killing a bunch of people. Although I have killed quite a few people now, including aliens and robots, I still got a feeling in my gut that left me uneasy when I did so to organics.

It was probably my old life's way of telling me that killing is wrong as I did grow up in a moderately peaceful world where it was frowned upon. But it is different now. Although that gut feeling was annoying, I know it would not stop me from killing again if needed to. Especially if I had to protect my love. Like I said to Kathrine before the Alexandria mission, I would let planets burn if it meant pleasing my hive.

Meanwhile, Sophia was staring at Apollo with a worried expression. 'Why has he not looked at me since I entered the vehicle? Is he mad at me? I only came to help him because Jinx is a walking danger magnet.'

When the vehicle arrived in front of the club, Apollo was still in his thinking state that left Sophia worried. She was not aware of it, but the effect of Apollo's boon was pumping up her mania love, making her question every little thing and making her think that she had upset Apollo somehow.

After sitting still for two minutes outside the club, Sophia built up the courage and asked. "Apollo, are you ok? What are you thinking about so intently?"

I jolted to and looked at Sophia. "Oh nothing much, just thinking about life and death and what comes after." I wanted to mention more, but I was still unable to talk about the concept of reincarnation around the hive as I still had some sort of mental block from my own.

Oblivious to Sophia's worried face, I looked out of the window and realised where we were. "Oh, we are back already? Oh I am going to go have a nice bath to unwind. Do you want to join me?"

"Huh?" Sophia said confused. 'I thought he was mad at me?' However, it seemed she was mistaken as she smiled seductively. "I would enjoy nothing more my sweet."

Making my way through the club, I noticed Samantha sitting on her own with a data pad. I felt like now would be a good time to thank her for helping me yesterday. "Hey Samantha." I said with a smile as I made my way towards her.

Samantha was wearing a turtleneck sweater and jeans, covering herself like she used to have to looked up and smiled sweetly upon seeing me. "Oh Apollo you are back, I am glad you weren't hurt in that drug den raid, can't believe Jinx took you there, those places can be bad news, I know from experience."

"Thanks Samantha, so listen. I am about to go take a bath, Do you want to take one with me?" I said as casually as asking if they wanted a snack from the kitchen while I was going. "WHAT!" "WHAT!" Both Samantha and Sophia said in contradictory tones.

I turned around to Sophia to address her what first. "What, what? Your tub is massive. We could even fit Orchid in there if she did not hate my manly bubbles that I put in the tub." Sophia wanted to put forward her counter argument, but she could not think of any that did not make her sound jealous, so She simply looked away dejected.

Turning back to Samantha, She had stood up and was mere centimetres from my body. "Daddy I would love to clean you, I mean bathe you, I mean bathe with you, lets go!" Samantha then took the initiative and grabbed my hand as she pulled me to the elevator.

As we made it upstairs, Orchid who was resting on the couch sat up after hearing two sets of voices that were not her mate. Upon realising who they were, she stood up and strutted over to intercept.

"Apollo-love, are you planning on having more mating time today?" She said, subtly eyeing Samantha. "No, nothing tonight. Samantha, Sophia and I are going to go have a bath, I killed a few people today and need to unwind."

Orchid opened her mouth and mimed the word. "Ah." Before she then walked over to me. "Were you hurt today My love?" I smiled at her caring look. "No I am perfectly fine, Jinx got pretty badly hurt though, but she seemed to enjoy herself despite that."

Orchid feigned interest, but could care less about the blue haired hybrids wellbeing right now. She had been practicing something all day and now she needed to see if her efforts would bare any fruit.

"Is that so Darling? We will check up on her tomorrow. In the meantime, would you like your Orchid to bring you some food? She knows you like the bovine meat the downstairs chef makes for you."

I raise my eyebrow at the way Orchid spoke then. It was softer and submissive, though not in a sexual way. 'I wonder what she is trying to do?' I thought before my stomach rumbled. "Love, that was an unusual way to ask if I wanted a burger or not. But if you want to go get me one, I would appreciate it."

Orchid smiled like she had just won something before she closed the gap and kissed me on the cheek, shocking me as I expected a peck on the lips. "Ok love, Orchid will get one for you now and then we can snuggle later as you tell me everything that happened while you were gone ok?"

She then patted me on the shoulder and gave it a quick squeeze before she left for the elevator leaving me with a tingling feeling in my belly. It was only a few seconds after Orchid left that I got my Barings and muttered.

"Ok."

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