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throwing the phone back onto the nightstand and turning back to Payne. His Vessel froze at Alec’s statement. He kicked off the top comforter, which was smeared with their combined desires.
    Alec raised a brow. “Do you know something about it?”
    Payne was quiet for a moment before answering. “Imprinting is when a Vessel’s bonding is sealed by a chemical release to his Master. You can’t return me now because it creates a bond that is almost unbreakable. It’s supposed to solidify loyalty.” He paused. “I wasn’t aware that I could imprint on you without a personality alignment. That is usually what does it to create an artificial mate bond.” He seemed to draw inward at the last, turning into himself in observation.
    “What does it matter, sweetheart?” Alec asked, drawing him into the shelter of his arms. Payne came willingly, but he seemed to be a million miles away.
    “I guess it doesn’t really. I just, I’ve been feeling all these emotions for you. I like you a lot, Alec.” Payne kissed Alec’s lips softly. “I want to love you. I know it has only been a couple days, but I want to love you very badly. I want us to work like you said. I just don’t know if that’s possible. How am I supposed to know what’s me and what is my programming?”
    Alec frowned and held Payne close. “Is there a way to drop the programming? To make you a normal man?”
    Payne shrugged. “Not that I know of. I’ve never heard of a Vessel who didn’t suit his programming surviving.”
    Alec’s soul chilled. “What do you mean surviving? If a Vessel doesn’t suit the program, he or she is trained in an area and sold to an industry so that they can make their own living without belonging to a single man or woman.”
    Payne snorted. “Facility lies. If a Vessel made too much trouble, the doctors of the Facility would have ‘accidents’ during rehabilitation. The ones that did survive are vegetables.”
    “You’re telling me that no Vessel you know of has gotten out of the program?” Alec demanded. Fuck no. Please tell me that what he’s saying is bullshit .
    “I’m telling you that no Vessel has gotten out of the program except in a body bag,” Payne said. There was a definite bitter note in his voice. “That’s how they teach us to be grateful even if our Masters are monsters. At least the humans who buy us think we’re too expensive to kill. They make us to have heirs for millionaires or toys for rich business aristocrats. We are grateful even in misery because if we weren’t there, we’d be dead. They started the personality alignment five years ago, and it dropped the number of deaths from about thirty percent to about twelve percent.”
    “How do you know this?” Alec asked. He was horrified by the pillow talk. It was hard to believe just a moment ago he was balls-deep inside his beautiful Vessel and thinking about how lucky he was to have had such a beautiful man commissioned for him.
    “You’d be surprised how much you hear when people look right through you. I’ve been present in many rooms where Trainers have been discussing it,” Payne said. “Any of the Vessels could tell you.”
    “Payne, if what you’re saying is true, and not just a scare tactic, that practice violates international law. My father couldn’t have been aware of this. He views artificial human Vessels as the epitome of human technological advancement. I mean, hell, he had his own children by his Vessel. He thinks your kind is the closest thing to intelligent design that humans can imitate.”
    “I only know what I’ve heard and seen, Alec.” Payne shuddered and snuggled closer to Alec’s warmth. “I’m so glad it was you,” he murmured. “I’m so glad you are mine.”
    Alec softened at the achingly gentle tones of Payne’s voice. “Payne, look at me.” He needed to reassure his Vessel that he would do whatever he needed to make the situation between Payne and himself right. Payne’s eyes turned up to