Raw Desires, the third story in the Cyborg Unity series, releases next week! Woot!
Today, I’m sharing the fourth and final scene from the very first chapter.
You can read the first scene here:
http://tasteofcyn.com/?p=10449
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The female cyborg’s gaze met hers.
Son of rock spider. Taytu froze in place. She’d been spotted.
It made no sense to hide from them now. They knew where she was.
She took a deep breath and stepped out from behind the panel. Her left hand was free. She held the detonator in her right palm.
The male cyborgs pointed their guns at her.
She tapped the detonator once, twice. Her body shook. This action had to be taken. This sacrifice had to be made.
For Fana, for her mom, for justice.
“Don’t be scared, little human.” The female cyborg holstered her guns. “We won’t hurt you.”
She held out her empty hands.
The male cyborgs also put away their weapons, leaving themselves defenseless and vulnerable.
Because they didn’t think she was a threat.
Taytu didn’t know whether to be relieved or insulted.
“There’s a 98.2563 percent probability she doesn’t speak the universal language.” One of the males shook his head. “The locals didn’t trade excessively with other beings.”
Taytu did speak the universal language. She had learned it at the academy.
But she said nothing because pretending she didn’t know what they were saying might give her a strategic advantage.
“She’s very small.” A second male tilted his head and studied her. “She might be offspring.”
They thought she was a child. It was a struggle for Taytu to conceal her disgust.
“She has breasts.” The female cyborg’s tone was dry.
“She’s very dirty.” The first male sniffed the air. “And she smells.”
“We only detected three lifeforms on the planet—two cyborgs and one human.” The female cyborg was clearly the leader. She was also the most intelligent being in the group. “She’s alone. There’s a 99.9999 percent probability she hasn’t seen another being since the Humanoid Alliance withdrew their forces from here. We’re fortunate she’s alive.”
They wouldn’t feel fortunate when she blew them all up.
Taytu tapped the detonator a third time.
“I’ve downloaded the files for the locals’ language.” The female cyborg’s gaze remained locked with hers. “You are safe with us.” She said that in very formal, very stiff Abeban. “We will not damage you.”
They might not plan to damage her. Taytu narrowed her eyes at them. But she planned to damage them. Her finger hovered over the detonator’s button.
“You are the genetic match for one of our warriors.” The female cyborg was talking pure idiocy.
They were the enemy, were the most senselessly violent beings in the universe. There was no fuckin’ way she was a genetic match for any of them.
“If you agree, we will transport you to our home planet.” The female cyborg surprised her with that offer. “You will be protected there. There is nourishment on our planet and beverage and others of your kind.”
There were no others of her kind. They were all dead. The female cyborg’s kind had killed them.
“There are also cleaning cloths.” One of the males said that in the universal language.
The female cyborg cast a hard glance at him, and his smile faded.
“It is your decision.” Her attention returned to Taytu. “But if you stay here, there is an 86.1258 percent probability you will die.”
There was a 100.0000 percent probability she’d die.
Because she had planned to blow herself up when she decimated them.
Though perhaps doing that now wasn’t the best use of her one lifespan.
Taytu shifted her gaze from cyborg to cyborg. There were three of them standing before her. And two cyborgs were sealed in the downed warship.
The female cyborg had offered to transport her to the cyborgs’ home planet. More enemy warriors would be situated there. She could target an entire structure occupied by male cyborgs.
And she liked the idea of striking out at her foes on their home planet. It was a place where they felt they were safe, where they believed no one would ever harm them.
As her family, her friends had thought they were safe, living peacefully on Yebeti Abeba.
Taytu slid the detonator into her pocket.
“I will go with you.” Her voice rasped with emotion.
She would pretend to be their warrior’s genetic match, would feign gratitude over being rescued. The cyborgs would lower their guard and start to trust her.
Then she would kill as many of them as she could manage.
Her loved ones would be avenged. She would meet her mom, dad, brothers, sisters, others—including baby Fana, in the land beyond.
It would be a good end.
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Raw Desires
His human female is attempting to kill him.
This cyborg finds that adorable.
Raw, a K model cyborg, is one of the lucky warriors who has located his genetic match. He hears his human female’s voice over the communication lines and immediately processes she is his.
Winning her affections will be a greater challenge. Battle has always been Raw’s focus. The rough-and-tough warrior has no idea how to engage anyone’s tender emotions.
Fortunately, he isn’t alone in the universe. His unmatched male friends help him craft a plan.
All Raw has to do is relay a few unsettlingly sweet words to his female and give her the thoroughly unfunctional wall decoration he has obtained. He projects she will then jump into his big, strong arms and beg him to claim her.
Taytu isn’t jumping anywhere. She has one mission—kill every cyborg in existence.
The huge, handsome male traveling to meet with her is her first target. His rough hands, firm lips, and sparkling, energy-infused eyes won’t save him from her vengeance. She has trained vigorously for this moment, and she won’t fail at her assigned task.
The cyborg will die.
Raw Desires is an enemies-to-lovers Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
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