This excerpt is from Taking Vengeance
“A projectile to my head knocked me unconscious, and your brethren thought I was dead.” Battling the urge to touch him, she placed her hands on her hips, a defiant and safe stance. “That’s the only reason I’m alive now.”
“Cyborgs can sense lifeforms.” He stepped closer to her. “My brethren knew you were alive.”
They were aware she had survived. She blinked. “Then why didn’t they finish me off?”
He shrugged. “The humans wouldn’t have known you were alive.”
The cyborgs were skilled in malicious compliance.
(grins)
While under the Humanoid Alliance’s control, they couldn’t disobey direct orders, not without dying and causing the additional deaths of their brethren, but they certainly didn’t volunteer to expend one nanocybotic worth of effort more than that.
They didn’t try to ‘fix’ the faults within the Humanoid Alliance’s systems.
They didn’t fight rebels they weren’t directed to fight.
They didn’t hide Humanoid Alliance weaknesses.
They followed stupid, battle-losing orders, processing they were stupid, battle-losing orders.
They marched into battle as slowly as they could and did a gazillion other small things to hinder the Humanoid Alliance’s efforts.
(They only killed rebel children because they were ORDERED to also kill rebel children.)
Malicious Compliance is a VERY effective form of rebellion. It safeguards the usually entrenched rebel while hindering the baddies’ efforts. And if everyone uses this tactic, baddies eventually lose.
Taking Vengeance
The only force stronger than their hate is their love.
Vengeance hates all humans. They killed every being he ever cared about. When the huge C Model cyborg is told he’s genetically compatible with the enemy, he makes it his mission to capture the female and use her to expel all humans from his home planet. That should be disappointingly easy. She’s a weak, fragile human.
Then she blows up his ship, blasting to bits his preconceived notions about the enemy.
Astrid, aka the Buoir Berserker, hates all cyborgs. They killed her entire clan, including her baby sister. The warrior female has vowed to hunt down and destroy the enemy. When a savage cyborg arrogantly puts his hard, sexy body within her reach, she does the only thing a female can do—she peppers his muscular physique with projectiles.
The more passionately they fight, the stronger their attraction becomes. Neither of them will relent on their missions, yet they can’t keep their hands off each other. Their battle will either end in love to last an eternity or in death.
Taking Vengeance is a STAND-ALONE story.
It is also an enemies-to-lovers Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, often violent universe.
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