Taking Vengeance, the next cyborg romance, will be releasing April 17th!
I shared the first scene last week.
You can read it here: http://tasteofcyn.com/?p=6259
This is the second scene.
“Push me too far, E Model, and I will push back.” Vengeance curled his fingers into fists, frustration-fueled anger coursing through him.
Cyborgs didn’t fight cyborgs. If they did, he would have put Power in his proper place long ago. The E Model would be following his lead.
Fighting was what Vengeance did best.
Not that he fought very often. He hadn’t battled a worthy adversary face-to-face since the cyborgs had claimed the Homeland as their planet. The training battles didn’t count. They had no real consequences and had become predictable.
He spent most of the planet rotation stuck in a chair, the inactivity feeding his disgruntlement. The metal groaned a protest as he shifted his weight. C Models took action. They didn’t chatter about it.
“There is no need to push back.” Power met his gaze. “My duty is to represent the majority of warriors. When your views mirror the majority’s, I will listen to them.”
Unlike the deceitful humans, cyborgs couldn’t lie. Power would listen to his views. The challenge was to convince the majority of warriors the human females were their enemies.
That would be difficult to do. Many warriors believed the genetic bond between a cyborg and his female couldn’t be resisted. They also believed it was unbreakable, linking the fates of those two beings together for all eternity.
He had to show his brethren the truth—the connection wasn’t as strong as they perceived. Power, a warrior more skilled with words, would attempt to prove the link couldn’t be severed.
“That concludes the decision-making for this planet rotation.” The E Model finally ended the meeting.
Restless, requiring movement, Vengeance stood, eager to leave. He’d return to his private chambers, gather some of his favorite weapons, and venture to the training chambers, seek a mock battle with a warrior or two or five.
That would utilize the excess energy surging through his circuits, allow him to focus on the dilemma facing him.
Vengeance, Death transmitted through a secure line. We need to discuss a matter with you. Privately.
Vengeance had nothing to discuss with the traitor. He stalked from the chamber, moved along the corridors at cyborg speed.
The fraggin’ warrior followed him. According to Vengeance’s monitoring system, the human female traveled at the same pace.
Death must be carrying her. Humans were slow.
Males straightened as Vengeance passed them, giving him the respect a council member was due. He was responsible for those males, each and every one of them. They trusted him to make the right decisions for them, to keep them safe.
If the humans recaptured his brethren, if those warriors were then decommissioned, if their countenances, currently hopeful, twisted in pain, Vengeance would be the being to blame. He couldn’t live with that knowledge, wouldn’t ever fail them.
Vengeance entered his private chambers, leaving the doors open. It was a large space, with plenty of area to move around. There was a C Model-sized chair, a horizontal support, and wires to re-energize with.
There was no sleeping support in the chambers, as cyborgs didn’t sleep. The human females would complain about that. As they would complain about the weapons hanging on the walls. The fragile enemy didn’t want cyborgs to be surrounded by guns and blades.
Vengeance turned toward the entrance, bracing his booted feet apart, preparing to face his opponents.
Death entered, cradling the human female in his arms. That left him with no hands free to wield weapons. The warrior foolishly put himself at risk, accommodating their adversary.
The J Model glanced over his right shoulder. “We require privacy.”
The warrior required a boot to his ass. Vengeance closed the doors and crossed his arms in front of his chest. “Power is the council member you should speak to. I’m not interested.”
“Power doesn’t want us to speak with you about this.” The human female dared to talk to him.
Vengeance kept his gaze locked on Death. He wouldn’t listen to her. She was the enemy.
Death sighed. “I’ll lead this conversation, my female.”
“Because he won’t speak to me.” The human female shook her head. “He’s more arrogant than Power. Are you certain Astrid will change his stance on humans?”
“Yes.” Death set the human female down. She was short and soft and weak, requiring constant protection and care. Vengeance didn’t see her appeal. “You changed my stance on humans, didn’t you?”
“Nothing will change my stance on humans.” Vengeance narrowed his eyes at Death. “They’re the enemy, should be destroyed, not embraced.”
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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 Book 12 in the Cyborg Sizzle series and 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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