Her Secrets, My Body

For a $5 million research stipend, I agreed to let the System install an empathic link inside my body.

"Subject. Are you sure you want to proceed? Once installed, the procedure cannot be reversed. This is a prototype. Side effects are not fully characterized."

I looked at the sidewalk-stall clothes my girlfriend Cara Lake had bought herself, and the drugstore-grade makeup on her vanity. I nodded.

That night, while she was out at her bar job.

A current came up out of nowhere inside me. My whole body lit up with a sickening pleasure that did not belong to me.

Seven times.