Taking Vengeance, the next cyborg romance, will be releasing April 17th!
I’m sharing the third scene from the first chapter today.
You can read the first scene here: http://tasteofcyn.com/?p=6259
“We’re aware of your stance on humans.” Death’s tone was dry. “Power has authorized my female to find genetic matches for warriors.”
“I disagreed with that decision.” Vengeance recognized the genetic matches for what they were—part of the humans’ strategy to infiltrate the cyborg forces. Weak-willed warriors were paired with strong-willed human females. Those females then used breeding, clever words, and other psychological warfare tactics to convince the warriors they were destined to be together, that the warriors had no choice but to be with them.
Warriors had choice. They’d fought for and won the right to process situations for themselves.
“He has authorized her to find genetic matches for all warriors, except for those serving on the cyborg council, Power being the only exclusion.” Death expanded his statement.
Why would Power omit council members from the search? Vengeance frowned, his processors whirring. “If one of us were paired with a human female, we’d uncover the ruse.” That was the most logical explanation. “We’d realize there was no genetic bond.”
“There’s no ruse, you human-hating speciesist,” the human female murmured. “A genetic bond does exist.”
“Power didn’t confide in us why he doesn’t want matches found for council members.” Death ignored her. “We investigated and there is a match for you in the Rebel database.”
Vengeance scowled, insulted by that finding. “The humans think I’m weak, that I can be influenced?”
“It’s genetics, not some battle tactic humans are utilizing against you.” The human female glared at him. “Are your processors malfunctioning? Should we use smaller words?”
Fraggin’ hole. The human female was irritating.
Vengeance removed an ancient battle-ax from the weapons display on the wall. The weight felt good in his hands, familiar and right.
She stopped chattering, correctly viewing it as being the threat he intended.
“You know my stance on humans.” Vengeance repeated what Death had said earlier. “I plan to expel all of them from the Homeland. Why would you come to me with this information?”
The female who had fooled Death would be one of the beings expelled. She would be banished from the planet forever, viewed correctly as being the enemy.
“We are prisoners here.” Death’s gaze locked with his. “We were ordered to return to the Homeland, and now we can never leave the planet.”
“Being expelled would give you back your freedom.” Vengeance dipped his head, understanding that desire. He and his brethren had risked their lifespans to gain liberty. They would never undervalue it.
Perhaps the warrior wasn’t as in thrall to the human female as he had feared.
“I’ll locate this female I’m supposedly genetically compatible with, and I’ll kill her, proving to all warriors there’s no link between cyborgs and humans.” That solution pleased Vengeance. Being a C Model, he enjoyed killing. Very much.
“No, don’t do that.” The human female’s eyes widened. “Stop him, my male.” She clutched Death’s arm, wisely realizing she didn’t have the words or the skill to stop Vengeance herself.
He could chop off her head before she realized he was attacking her.
“If you kill the female, the only proof will be your recordings, which can be tampered with.” Death’s voice was flat. “Warriors will question that she’s truly your genetic match. They might speculate why you killed her so quickly. Did you end her lifespan because you were losing control?”
He was one of their top warriors, represented all C Models on the council. Vengeance’s grip tightened on the battle-ax. They shouldn’t question him or his control.
But Power would do exactly that, and the E Model was clever with words, might sway more of their brethren to his side.
To the enemy’s side.
“I’ll capture the human female and bring her back to the Homeland.” Vengeance decided that was a logical solution. That would be a disappointingly easy task, the female no match for a cyborg warrior such as himself. “Everyone will see she has no effect on me.”
“You’re going to fall so hard, you non-responsive single-cell organism.” The human female who’d fooled Death must have forgotten about his weapon. She was chattering again. “I almost feel sorry for you. I do feel sorry for your female. I—”
Vengeance sliced through the air with his battle-ax. Death moved in front of the enemy, imprudently protecting the human female with his own form. She gulped, her face growing pale.
Silence fell in the chamber.
Vengeance wrinkled his nose. Humans were easy to intimidate. They feared pain.
He embraced it. Pain made a warrior tough, strong, able to defeat his enemies.
“Send me the female’s coordinates and details.” He would retrieve her immediately. The faster he completed the mission, the sooner all humans would be expelled from the Homeland.
“The female resides alone on Second Buoir, a small planet now controlled by the Rebels.” Death transmitted the coordinates.
The planet wasn’t far from cyborg-controlled space.
And she resided there alone? That was unusual. Humans tended to travel in packs.
Vengeance’s muscles tensed. Could this be a trap, an attempt by the humans to capture or kill a cyborg council member? “Have lifeform scans been performed?”
“We haven’t performed a lifeform scan on the planet.” Death admitted. “But lack of human and humanoid contact was mentioned in the Rebel Command’s communications.”
Those communications could be falsified. Humans were adept at deception. “They sent a human female alone to a strange planet?” He was skeptical about that possibility.
“It’s part of a disciplinary action against her. Her violation wasn’t stated. And Second Buoir is her home planet.” The J Model transmitted the human female’s specs. “It was recently taken back from the Humanoid Alliance.”
Humans punished cyborgs by dissecting them, by killing them in the harshest way possible. They punished their own kind by sending them to their home planets.
Read the next installment (Available April 9th): http://tasteofcyn.com/?p=6272
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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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