Woot! The countdown to the release of The Cyborg’s Secret Baby is on! That means I’ll be sharing the first chapter of the story over the next few weeks.
Today, I’m sharing the first scene of the first chapter.
The battle for the thirty strides of terrain had been fierce. Stealth’s form was riddled with projectiles. Hunks of flesh hung off his face and chest. His back had been blasted bare by explosions, his body armor long gone. The pain was excruciating.
He had a smile on his face.
Being a K Model cyborg, he loved to fight. His brutal masters, the Humanoid Alliance, had manufactured him for that purpose. He and his brethren remained enslaved to them and couldn’t choose their opponents, but they could defeat them with zeal.
That wasn’t the reason for his joy.
After ten planet rotations of separation, he would finally return to the Humanoid Alliance base with his brethren. He would see his female, the one being genetically compatible with him.
From the moment, Zebrina, the commander’s daughter, had arrived on Ahki, he had been hers. He’d been standing outside with his fighting batch, being inspected for damage. She’d skipped down the ramp, her generous curves jiggling, her black curls bouncing against her brown cheeks.
His female had been a vibrant beam of hope in a gray and dismal world. Everyone, including himself, had been drawn to her.
Then her delectable scent filled his nostrils and that attraction multiplied exponentially. His circuits surged. His heart pounded. A part of him that had been deactivated came online. It had taken all of his willpower to keep his expression blank.
She said hi to everyone, her light, bubbly tone belying the keen intelligence in her big blue eyes. Stealth and his fellow cyborgs had been included in her greeting, much to their delight.
The commander, a harsh human she referred to irreverently as Daddy, told her not to talk to the machines. Zebrina giggled and said they looked like her dollies.
She then brushed her fingers across Stealth’s right shoulder, a light touch he felt to his metal frame, and he knew the attraction was mutual. Their relationship was doomed. She was human, the daughter of his tormenter, and he was a cyborg, designed to die fighting.
Every moment with her was a gift, a reward for having survived as long as he had.
He scanned his assigned area. The vegetation was scorched. A structure had been demolished. The light-blue bodies of Ahkian Rebels lay twisted on the ground, their eyes open and unseeing.
There were no lifeforms remaining.
Lethal. He contacted the E Model to the left of him. Cover my section. I’m scouting the terrain ahead of us.
Their replacements would be pushing the front line forward. Those warriors would be more successful at doing that if they knew what they were facing.
They certainly couldn’t count on the intel they were given by the Humanoid Alliance. Their human masters viewed them as disposable weapons and didn’t make any effort to verify the information, not caring if cyborgs were terminated.
He and his brethren were on their own.
I’ll cover half of your section. Boom, the warrior to his right, beat his foe with another humanoid’s detached leg.
The C Model had use of only one of his arms. The other one had been severed to the circuits by a wayward missile and his nanocybotics hadn’t yet repaired it.
I’ll miss the fighting when we reach the Homeland. His friend talked constantly of the cyborg-controlled planet, a place where all warriors were free. According to transmissions, there’s no killing there.
You can fight me in the training rings. Lethal threw a rock across the expanse.
It pinged off the C Model’s metal-encased skull. That wouldn’t be any challenge.
Frag you. The two nattered back and forth.
Stealth had been stationed with the males after surviving his training and they had fought together since then. The two warriors had saved his lifespan multiple times, always protected his back.
He would do anything for them and they would do anything for him.
Assured his area was covered, he sprinted forward, moving at cyborg speed through the cleared terrain. Corpses were strewn over the ground.
The Ahkian Rebels were fighting for their freedom, for their home planet, for the right to exist. He had sympathy for the beings. If he had the choice, he wouldn’t fight them.
He didn’t have a choice. If he refused to fight, the Humanoid Alliance would know cyborgs had free will and couldn’t be completely controlled. They would decommission not only him but every warrior in the universe, subjecting them to the most severe agony possible before ending their lifespans.
Either the Rebels died or he and his brethren did. His loyalty belonged to his own kind.
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The Cyborg’s Secret Baby
A fierce cyborg warrior and his curvy human female share a no-longer-so-little secret.
Stealth, a K Model cyborg, knows his passion for Zebrina, the commander’s human daughter, is forbidden, yet he can’t resist the curvy female. He craves her touch, cherishes her sounds of pleasure, would do anything to keep her safe.
When he’s faced with the choice of protecting his fragile human or living to see the next sunrise, he chooses her, always her, sending Zebrina halfway across the universe to safety. He doesn’t realize their stolen moments had consequences neither of them believed possible.
After hearing her warrior died in battle, Zebrina focuses on the last gift he gave her. Doing what is right for their child is her sole priority. She will put their son’s happiness first, even if that means choosing another male over the love of her life.
The Cyborg’s Secret Baby is a STAND-ALONE story loosely connected to the Cyborg Sizzle series.
It is also a Second Chance Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, often-violent universe.
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