Grin And Bare Him, the second 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=10131
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During the voyage to Mercury Minor, Grin and Strive helped Raw formulate a plan they projected would completely conquer his female emotionally.
They armed him with human-friendly compliments and courting strategies they had located in various databases. Strive crafted two additional decorative panels utilizing the same floral theme. Grin drafted the blueprints for a unique domicile suited for human females.
Their plan was perfect.
Except for one detail.
Raw hadn’t been given an opportunity to implement it.
They were six planet rotations and one shift away from the planet, and their friend’s genetic match hadn’t yet accepted any of his communications.
“She could be damaged.” The warrior expressed that fear. “That would explain why she’s offline.”
“Ask our contact on Mercury Minor if she’s fully functional.” Grin monitored the state of the test panels. All were intact.
“If I ask Lore that question, he’ll process I’m not communicating with my female.” Raw slowed the warship’s speed. “There’s an 85.2588 percent probability he’ll speak with the leadership team on Mercury Minor and with the cyborg council on the Homeland, and a 47.2365 percent probability they’ll then withdraw our authorization to land on the planet.” Landing privileges on the planet were severely rationed. “I’ll lose the opportunity to claim my female.”
“That projection is sound.” Strive surprised Grin by agreeing with their friend.
The two males had heatedly debated every decision they’d made during the voyage.
Grin suspected they enjoyed the arguments.
“And there’s no need to ask the question. Your female is fully functional. She also remains on Mercury Minor,” Strive told Raw. “Lore processes who you are traveling to meet. He would’ve contacted you if she was damaged or missing.”
“Lore would process the state of your female.” Grin nodded. “He—”
A light on the bridge’s console flashed.
“He’s contacting us now.” Raw opened communications. “This is Raw. We will arrive in six planet rotations and one shift.”
“That landing has been authorized.” Lore’s face appeared on the main viewscreen. “I’m sending you the coordinates.”
The location of the landing site appeared below his image.
“Warriors will greet you as you disembark from your vessel.” The cyborg’s words were clipped. “I’ll be amongst them. We’ll escort you to your female’s chamber.”
“My female won’t be waiting at the coordinates?” Raw lifted his eyebrows.
There was a telling pause.
Grin exchanged a glance with Strive.
That didn’t project good things.
“Your female won’t be waiting at the landing site,” Lore finally responded. “She’ll be occupying her chamber.”
No new information was relayed.
There was another stretch of silence.
Ask him why she won’t be greeting you upon our landing. Strive urged Raw through their shared transmission line.
I’m not jeopardizing the claiming of my female. Raw was being unusually cautious.
Grin agreed with the male’s stance. He projected Lore processed they wanted more intel and was deliberately withholding it.
“During your stay on Mercury Minor, you’ll be approached by one or more beings requesting transport off the planet.” Lore changed the subject. “Refuse those requests. And guard your ship.”
Grin frowned. “You’re not allowing beings to leave the planet?”
The male’s face hardened. “The being most aggressively seeking to leave Mercury Minor plans to travel to a Humanoid Alliance-controlled planet. She’s a fragile, fully organic humanoid, and there’s an 84.2563 percent probability she’ll be killed on her self-appointed mission. We prefer to safeguard her until she is claimed by her warrior. That warrior can then modify her processing.”
“That’s logical.” Grin had been thoroughly chastised.
“All our decisions are logical.” Lore’s tone was snippy. “We await your arrival.”
The male ended the communication.
“That unidentified warrior will have a challenging task once he meets his female.” Grin shook his head. “She sounds determined to end her lifespan.”
“I envy that warrior,” Strive shared softly.
“I envy him also.” Grin swallowed a sigh. He wouldn’t be the humanoid female’s male. She required a warrior, and he refused to hold that role. “I’ll take the first shift guarding the warship.”
He would utilize that time to examine the test panels.
“You can have the first shift and the second one also.” Raw increased the warship’s speed. “While you’re guarding the warship, I’ll meet with my female. We’ll talk. Finally. I’ll wield all the right words, sharing with her the statements the two of you have crafted for me. She’ll have no defenses against my advances. My female will agree to breed with me, and I’ll be the most fortunate warrior in the universe.”
He sounded as though he was trying to convince himself that progression of events would occur.
“I’ll be exploring the planet.” Strive stretched out his body armor-clad legs. “Warriors have been chattering about the wide-open spaces on Mercury Minor. There are trees higher than domiciles, and large fields of yellow grasses, and no beings within visual range.”
Grin had heard that chatter also. Mercury Minor was covered with restored soil. It was lush and fertile and had few inhabitants.
The Homeland, in contrast, was crowded with beings, both on the planet’s surface and in the ships orbiting high above it. There were no wide-open spaces, very little vegetation, and there were many, many structures.
Some of them had been designed by him.
He might find inspiration for more structure fabrications on Mercury Minor. Being in a different environment should encourage different ideas, and his surroundings would be quiet and peaceful. There would be plenty of space to test materials.
Grin’s lips curled upward.
His duration on the planet would be conducive to working.
Other cyborgs might not relish that prospect.
He embraced it with his entire being.
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Grin And Bare Him
This cyborg will be the warrior his female requires.
Cyborgs are designed to fight. That is their primary purpose and 98.2356 percent of the manufactured warriors enjoy battle. Tremendously.
Grin, a K model, is one of the rare exceptions. When he escaped his cruel creators, he set down his sword and allocated his processors to less violent pursuits. He projects he’s left his war-waging planet rotations behind him forever.
Then he meets his beautiful, beguiling female, the one being he’s destined to protect, to claim, to love for all eternity, and his plans for peace are completely decimated.
Mohini needs a ship.
She has a dangerous mission to complete and the first step in that assignment is arranging transport to an enemy-controlled planet. The vessel she has set her sights on is guarded by the sexiest cyborg she’s ever seen.
To gain access to his ship, Mohini is prepared to kiss, caress, seduce the muscular male. The mission is her focus. The pleasure she experiences will merely be a bonus.
A female has to do what a female has to do to save the universe.
Grin And Bare Him is a Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
It features a humanoid female undertaking a dangerous mission, a cyborg intent on keeping her alive, and an enemy with enough firepower to blow up an entire sector.
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