Cyborg vs. the competition
While Amadis regaled Gerald Henry with the story of their brush with the pirates, Victor smiled and nodded and corrected her when she tried to give him too much credit for their escape.
“It required amazing acting to pull it off. Which she handily accomplished,” he interjected when her accolades grew too effusive.
“Oh, but the makeup job. The rash was so realistic, I half-believed I was infected. You would have run if you’d seen it,” she assured Henry.
“Do you think so? I don’t scare easily.” He moved closer to her.
Victor was certain none of the ugly feelings within his circuitry managed to make it to the surface. He felt them all right: jealousy, helplessness, a shattering of his confidence.
Especially when she smiled at Henry. “I admit, I was scared. But I’ve never felt so alive. Is that how it is for you when you face off with pirates and rebels?” She touched his shoulder.
The captain looked at her with an intentness that grew by the second. He touched her too, her arm, her hand…her hair. “It’s like a drug. There’s no greater high than fighting an enemy, except winning.” Growing more familiar as they spoke.
They seemed to have forgotten Victor was there, despite him being part of the story. Amadis didn’t glance his way, though her praises for his actions were many. Otherwise, she was thoroughly distracted by the handsome, engaging Captain Henry.
Victor couldn’t help but cast about for some way to draw her attention back to him. When he did, his matrix warned him off such an action.
During sex, they played games as if she were no more than a possession for his pleasure…a game she had confided excited her. However, he didn’t need his matrix’s assertion to realize real possessiveness would set her against him. She was her own woman. Not his.
In any way.
“The ITCS should really think about adding cyborgs to their protective force,” she said, at last looking at him. “I’d be on the black market selling block right now if it weren’t for Victor.”
As he was on the selling block at that moment. Maybe Amadis hadn’t meant it that way, but she’d reduced him to a promotional tool once more. He was a demo model to sell for CyberServe.
That isn’t her intention after all we’ve shared.
But she was looking at Captain Henry again. An actual human male, strong and ready to fight not only for a woman, but for the whole ITCS. How could Victor, a manufactured being, measure up?
He was certain he couldn’t. He watched as the woman he loved and the captain bantered, sitting very, very close to each other.
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Threatened and pursued, they have no business falling in love. So that’s exactly what they do.
Victor was a cyborg spy during the corporate wars that devastated Earth. Now he’s a refitted demo model for CyberServe, spotlighting the services a repurposed cyborg can offer…in life and love. Suave, cultured, and fully realized as a sentient being, Victor has it all, except the love he wants for himself.
Amadis Dubois has played second fiddle to the powerful her
entire life. Now she has the chance to prove to everyone and herself she has
what it takes to lead. She accepts a humanitarian mission to bring desperately
needed medical supplies to a disease-stricken space station. If she can pull
off rescuing thousands of lives, she can finally move out of others’ shadows.
Fending off the attentions of a lovelorn cyborg becomes a
secondary concern when the captain of Amadis’ ship dies suddenly, leaving her
the only human on board. With her career-setting mission endangered, pirates
and rebels threatening at every turn, she has to turn to Victor for assistance
after trying to keep him at a distance. Between moments of fighting for her
life, she’s vulnerable to the numerous charms of the cyborg she has no business
falling for.
Life and love hang in the balance for Amadis and Victor, with trouble at every turn. They can have it all, if they survive.
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She’s marked for death. He’s her only hope. But can a de-commissioned cyborg once programmed to kill humans be trusted with her life…or her heart?
They
called him the Wall, part of a cyborg army that terrorized humans
during a long war waged by those intent on wielding power. When Tosha
Cameron, owner of a multi-billion corporation, first sees the
deactivated cyborg, he’s a tattered remnant of a horrific past.
Most
would prefer to see cyborgs destroyed, but those with vision see a
valuable resource. When Tosha’s business rivals target her for
assassination, the Wall—whom she renames Brick—is her best bet for
protection.
Reprogrammed,
Brick proves he’s more than a mere machine. Programmed to guard Tosha,
he can supply her every need. He soon develops beyond his learning
matrix and software, becoming capable of humanity…and more.
Dark secrets from a bloody past are waiting deep in his circuitry, however; secrets that could kill the woman he loves and has sworn to protect.
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He was the most hated cyborg on Earth, and love is far from
his original design. But when old enemies hunt the woman he’s sworn to protect,
he discovers a passion for vengeance…and her.
CyberServe’s president Lillian Kwolek enjoys Alek on her terms: no love, no strings attached. It’s easy to keep him at a distance and guard her heart from hurt until an extremist group determined to right old wrongs targets her. Alek is loaded with a security program to keep Lillian safe, and it opens the cyborg to learning emotions.
Alek doesn’t like these feelings, which include a confusing mix of devotion to and wariness of Lillian. She doesn’t like his developing emotions either. The new Alek, who fulfills desires and her need for safety from increasing threats, is too intoxicating a temptation for a woman who can’t trust men, whether they’re flesh or machine.
They can’t resist each other, but past hurts threaten to destroy what they could have…and open the door to killers bent on annihilating cyborgs and Lillian.
