Overclocked: Neon Protocol

His cold monoblade is pressed hard against my throat, but the military combat core burning inside my spine just locked our nervous systems together. He was sent to execute me and rip the stolen tech from my body—until he realizes that stopping my heart will instantly stop his own. Kane Cross is the corporation’s deadliest apex enforcer, a ruthless predator who views street rats like me as target practice. Yet with every violent overclock of our shared neural link, his icy grip turns from lethal intent into a dark, suffocating obsession to keep me breathing. Trapped in a crossfire between relentless hit squads and a burning system eating me alive, the electric tension between us threatens to shatter my defenses faster than any bullet. When the core hits terminal overload, will I surrender my body to the cold-blooded executioner holding my leash, or let the illicit code burn us both into ash?