Breathing Vapor by Cynthia Sax

Author:Cynthia Sax [Sax, Cynthia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Military, Science Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Genetic Engineering
Amazon: B015UN87JC
Published: 2015-11-17T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Vapor hadn’t betrayed her.

She had made a mistake and he could have used that error against her. He could have relayed the information she shared, helping his friends and hurting her. But he hadn’t.

Because he was a cyborg. Cyborgs had honor and integrity.

Mira restored her appearance, reluctantly washing Vapor’s scent from her body. She donned one of her favorite fabric wraps, the white cloth clinging to her curves.

Her ass was no longer sore from the spanking. Vapor’s nanocybotics continued to bubble within her, healing that damage, a reminder of her warrior male.

She cared for him, would do anything to save his friends. That included facing her disapproving parent.

Mira marched to her father’s working chambers and placed her hand on the access panel. “It’s me, sir.”

“I asked you not to interrupt me while I’m working.” Her father’s voice was curt.

That request sounded reasonable except he was always working. If she waited for a free expanse of time, she’d never speak with him. “It will only take a moment.”

He sighed. “Enter.”

The door slid open. Mira stepped into the chamber. Her father was seated behind a horizontal support built from primitive gears and other mechanics. His gray head was bent over a private viewscreen, his eyebrows knitted. He didn’t look up as she approached.

She sat before him in one of the guest ass supports and waited. On the walls, footage of major steps in cyborg evolution played soundlessly on viewscreens. Specs about kill rates and repair capabilities scrolled across the bottom of the recording.

There were no images of her mom and no images of Mira. She wasn’t secondary to his projects. She wasn’t a consideration at all. If it was possible, he ignored her.

As he was doing now. Mira shifted in her seat. “Sir.”

He held up his index finger and continued studying the private viewscreen. She pressed her lips together. Trying to speak with her father could take half a planet rotation.

At least she hadn’t been blocked from his chambers. When she was young, after her mom died, she’d interrupted her father once too often and he’d banned her from this section of the domicile, locking the doors to her.

She knew why. She’d been too needy. His cyborgs didn’t have that failing.

Time passed. Mira stared at her father, trying to push thoughts into his brain.

His heavy sigh echoed in the chamber. “I can’t concentrate with you staring at me.”

“I’m sorry, sir.” That was a lie. She wasn’t sorry at all.

“Now, I’ve lost the flow of logic.” He shook his head. “This is why I don’t like being interrupted.” He set the private viewscreen on the horizontal support. “What is it that’s so important, that’s more critical than the future of our species?”

“I attended the Listmann party last planet rotation. The insurgents attacked the building, planting a bomb near an exterior wall.”

Her father looked at her, his face blank, not one inkling of concern reflecting in his eyes.

“I’m okay.” Mira’s tone was dry.

“I assumed you were or you wouldn’t be here.” Not that he’d worry if she didn’t return.

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